Smith, Cecil Harcourt; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 3): Vases of the finest period (London, 1896)

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thigh. On either side, a horse turned outwards, prancing, on the further side
of which a helmeted youth stands holding him back by the bridle with both
hands : the helmet of the one on the r. is turned back, showing the face and
the looped up hair : the face of the other is covered with his helmet. In
the field, imitation inscriptions.

Beneath the handle on the r. of a is an ivy leaf rising from the thin red
circle which forms the ground line. Beneath the opposite handle an imitation
inscription.

E 9- KYLIX. Old No. 828*. Ht. 6 in. Diam. 15? in. Vulci. Durand Coll. no. 37S.

Panofka, Eigenn. mit Ka\6s, pi. 3, 7, p. 33; Gerhard, A. V. iii, pll. 178-9; Overbeck, Her.

Bildw. pi. vii, 4 (for exterior) p. 196, no. 4; ; Murray, Designs from Greek Vases, no. 6 ;

Jahrbmk, 1886, p. 202, no. 61 ; Wernicke, Lieblingsn. p. 85 ; Klein, Lieblingsiusehr. p. 36 ;

nn- delv Inst. 1832, p. no, no. xiv. ; C. I. Gr. 7395. Much broken, the central part of a, and

a piece from each side of b wanting : surface of design injured throughout. Brilliant glaze,

drawing similar to that of E 10, but more careful. Above and below the exterior scenes is a

in red line. Purple is used for the wreaths, the inscriptions, and the reins of the sea-horses.

n'ier markings seem to have been used on the exterior. The hair of the Nereids in a has a

wavy outline, left red ; the outline in the interior is incised : that of the figures in b is left red

etween two thin black lines, as in E 10. The hair of Nereus was probably indicated by white

d°ts, now faded.

Interior : Within two red circles, a bearded man, wreathed and ithyphallic,
In a stooping attitude to r. holding out 1. arm covered with mantle : in his r.
he holds up a keras. Around him KA/O$CDElA0N, koAo? <$>ei,8(ov.

Exterior: (a) Between two winged and bridled sea-horses, which face
inwards, Peleus seizing Thetis. Peleus, beardless and wreathed, striding for-
ward to r.; has thrown his arms around the waist of Thetis, his head pressing
against her breast. Thetis, in a long chiton with sleeves, tries to escape to r.,
looking back and loosening his grasp with her 1. hand. Of Peleus, only the head
and feet remain ; Thetis has lost her face, r. side, and thighs. On either side
two Nereids rush away with gestures of fear: the one nearest Thetis holds in
her 1. a tunny fish by the tail over her 1. shoulder, and looks back: her
companion looks to r. Of the opposite pair, the foremost looks back : her face,
and the entire upper part of her companion, except the r. arm, are destroyed.
All the Nereids have long chiton with sleeves, and wreaths. Above Thetis is
inscribed ©ETI$ ©^9.

{b) Between sea-horses, as before : Hermes and Nereids bringing the
*ie\vs to Nereus. The sea god *V3<|3H, N^/aew, a bald wreathed old man
jn a long chiton and himation, sits to r. on a square base, holding in 1. a wand,
111 !'• a tunny fish. To him conies Hermes, bearded, with chlamys, pilos
and winged endromides, in haste, his r. hand upraised, his 1. holding caducous.
Behind him stands a woman, Amphitrite (?), in long chiton and himation,
her hair looped up and wreathed, her r. arm upraised ; in her 1. (now destroyed)
she may have held some object. On the 1. of Nereus two Nereids, dressed as
Amphitrite, rush forward with 1. arm upraised, and r. pressing breast; the foremost
holds in her 1. hand a flower. Behind Hermes is inscribed HE[>MES> "Rpfi-ni.