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

90 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

E 67. KYLIX. Old No. 811. Ht. 4I in. Diam. iif in. Vulci. Durand Coll. no. 395.

Gerhard, Trinksch. i, pi. D ; Murray, Designs from Greek Vases, no. 45 ; Hartwig, Meistersch.
p. 361 ; for the interpretation see Korte in Ann. deW Inst. 1881, p. 171. Broken, and edges of
fragments injured, but none missing. Style very similar to that of the cup signed by Brygos in
Frankfurt (Klein, Meistersig? p. 178, no. 1) : note especially the Zeus in that cup and the Hera
in this; the subjects resemble those of Wiener Vorlegebl. D 8, which is also attributed to
Brygos. Form as E 65. Purple used for fillets, inscriptions, and belt of Memnon. Inner
markings in faint brown, sparsely used, and rather coarse. The curls over the forehead in a are
indicated by raised black dots. Beneath the r. handle, a panther moving to r.: the space beneath
the other handle is left vacant. Below the exterior scenes, a band of running ma;ander.

Interior: Within a circle of running mseander, on a small exergue left red,
a bearded man (talaric chiton with sleeves, dotted himation leaving r. arm free,
hair looped up with fillet, and boots), seated on chair to r., holds out in r.
a phiale, into which a girl is about to pour from an oinochoe. She moves away,
raising with her 1. the skirt of her dress, and looking back : she wears a long
chiton with sleeves, a himation fastened on the 1. shoulder, earrings, and a snake
bracelet on her 1. wrist; her hair escapes behind from a saccos, and one long
tress hangs down her breast. In the background is a Doric column with
architrave and guttae. On the chair is a cloth decorated with dotted squares
and a mjeander border. In the field an imitation inscription.

Exterior: (a) Scene in Olympos (?). On the 1. Zeus (bearded, long
chiton with sleeves, himation leaving 1. arm free, hair looped up at back with
fillet) seated on a throne, holding in r. a phiale decorated with wavy lines and
raised dots, his 1. extended, resting on a sceptre. This figure is balanced on the
r. of the design by Hera (long chiton with sleeves, himation leaving r. arm free,
earrings, stephane, snake bracelet on 1. wrist, hair looped up), who holds out in
her r. a phiale, 1. resting on sceptre ; her lips are parted, as if she were
speaking. Confronting her is Iris (wings spread on either side, long sleeved
chiton, himation leaving r. arm free, hair passed through broad saccos), who
stands with 1. hand raised as if in surprise, r. hanging at side holding oinochoe.
Zeus is confronted by a corresponding figure of a youth, Ganymedes (?), who,
with shoulders en face;holds up oinochoe to fill Zeus' cup: his body is partly
chipped away, but the 1. arm seems to be covered by his himation : he wears a
fillet with upright piece over forehead, and his hair at the back is coiled in a
broad plait. In the centre is a bearded warrior, Ares (?), with body en face, head
and r. leg to 1., r. resting on spear. He wears a helmet, short embroidered
chiton, mantle, and greaves ; his body is almost concealed by a very large shield
(device, a snake moving to L), the edge studded with nails. Between Zeus and
Ganymedes in the background is a fluted Doric column. In the field illegible
letters, possibly KAV05, >ca\6<;. Both thrones are without back, and have an
embroidered cloth, as in int. The legs of Zeus' throne terminate above in an
ornament like the volutes of an Ionic capital.

[For Iris as the attendant of Hera, cf. Ann. dell' Inst. 1878, pi. G, and the Parthenon
frieze, Cat. of Sculpture in Brit. Mus. p. 156.]

(b) Combat of Achilles and Memnon in presence of Thetis and Eos.