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Walters, Henry Beauchamp; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]
Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 2): Black-figured vases — London, 1893

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ATHENIAN HYDRIAE. 20J

with white dots and a purple band round the top, standing on an Ionic column
and plinth.

B 355. HYDRIA. Ht7|-in. Cameiros, 1864. Style as last. Design in black on a red panel,

with borders as last ; accessories of white.

Above, a representation of a rock (?) ; on the 1., a blazing altar; on the
r., a colossal female head to L, with short hair and a white fillet, perhaps repre-
senting the Nymph of some spring (see Robert, Arcliaol. Mdrclieu, p. 200).

B 356. HYDRIA. Ht. 6f in. Cameiros, 1864. The lip has a piece broken out. Style as last.

Design in black on a red panel, with palmettes above and borders of dots down the sides ;
accessories of white, somewhat faded.

Nike standing to r. in a himation, with outspread wings, by the further
side of a bull to r. Her head is partly obliterated.

B 357. HYDRIA. Ht. 8J in. Rhodes, 1856. Lip and foot injured. Style very coarse. Design

in black on a red panel, with maeander and palmettes above, and borders of dots down the
sides ; accessories of white.

Nike flying to r., looking back, her hair bound up with a white sphendone ;
she has wings outspread, starting from her breast, and a long chiton, both with
white markings ; in her hands she holds out a white taenia. She is flying
towards an altar on which is a blazing fire. In the field, a branch.

B 358. HYDRIA. Ht. 6:}in. Cameiros, 1864. Style as before ; much repaired. Design in black

on a red panel, with borders of dots down the sides and along the top; accessories of white.
Above the design, three palmettes.

On the L, a blazing altar with horns and a rude scalloped ornament
round the top ; above is a portion of the entablature of a building. An
Amazon is moving away to r., looking back, with long hair, high-crested helmet,
cuirass, short chiton, spear, and shield with device of a snake to 1. On the
extreme r. is the hind part of a dog (?) disappearing.

B 359. . HYDRIA. Old No. C. 120. Ht. 6 in. Teucheira in the Cyrenaica, 1866. Nearly the

whole of the back broken away. Archaistic style. Design in black on a red panel, with
borders of dots along the top and sides ; purple and white accessories, the latter faded.

Bust of Athene to 1.: She has long tresses, high-crested helmet covering
the back of the neck, with a volute incised on the side, and aegis with over-
lapping scales and a fringe of snakes. Behind her is an owl to 1., perched on
a helix ; in front, half of a palmette.
 
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