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)

KYLIKES. IO7

He has a long sceptre leaning against his 1. shoulder, and wears a long-sleeved
talaric chiton and an himation. On the 1., a youth wreathed, and wearing an hima-
tion, holding upright a sceptre in his 1., and extending a fluted phiale in his r.
Between him and the woman is a slender Ionic column with architrave ; behind
him hang a pair of sandals. On the 1. of the bearded man hang a pair of
tablets rolled up, with a stylus fastened in the bands : at each of the lower
corners hangs a triple tie.

[The sceptre of the youth is striated, with lotus top : the other has the lotus top, but is
not striated.]

(b) Here apparently the same three figures are engaged, but part of each
is wanting. Of the youth on 1. only the feet and the ends of his himation and
the legs of the chair in which he is sitting to r. are preserved. The woman
confronts him, raising both hands apparently, with a gesture of surprise ; she
wears a fillet with trefoil ends ; her face and r. arm are wanting. Behind her is the
column as in a. The bearded man on the r. stands en face, but looking tol. with
r. hand on hip, 1. holding sceptre upright; his sceptre is striated. On the r. is a
trace of an object (a sandal ?) hanging up, which is almost entirely broken away.

E 81. KYLIX. Ht. 4} in. Diam. nfin. Vulci. Blacas Coll. Cab. Durand, no. 19; Raoul-

Rochette, Mon. Ined. p. 428 ; Heydemann in Berichte d. sacks. Ges. 1875, pi- iii, a-G, p. 211 ;
Murray, Designs from Greek Vases, no. 57; Stark, Niobe und die Niobide?i, pp. 150-153;
Welcker, Alte Denkm. i, p. 300 ; Overbeck, Kunstmyth. (Apollo), p. 334, no. 98, Atlas, pi. xxii,
11 ; Roscher, vol. ii, p. 831 (s.v. Kadmos). Much broken, and surface, especially in interior
and b, considerably injured. Style and technique identical with following (E 82). Purple is
used for the inscriptions only. Light brown for inner markings. Eye in profile. Beneath each
handle is a triple palmette ornament.

Interior: Within a circle composed of sets of three maeanders separated by
chequered squares, Athene giving Cadmos the stone with which to kill the
serpent. Athene (helmet half seen, with raised cheek-pieces, asgis, chiton with
fringed hem, himation girt at waist, earrings) stands on 1., with spear held in
1. resting against her 1. shoulder, and gives the stone with her r. to Cadmos,
KAAMOJ, a youthful figure who moves away eagerly to r., looking back and
receiving it with his r. hand. In his 1. he holds a calpis, and a mantle hangs
over his 1. arm. A sword hangs at his side from a cross-belt, but only part of
the handle and the end of the scabbard are shown. His hair, falling in wavy
curls, is confined with a fillet. Both figures stand on a thin red line, which cuts
off an exergue, painted black.

The exterior scenes are occupied with the destruction of the Niobides.

(a) Apollo slaying the Niobides. Beside a palm or pine (?), which is
conventionally represented as springing on rocky ground (perhaps intended
to represent Mt. Cithseron, cf. E 466), a leaf on each side at the root and
two on each side of the crown, Apollo, AnOAAON, strides to 1., shooting
with his bow at a youth who flees on the extreme 1. ; he is beardless,
and has long wavy hair confined with a fillet ; on his extended 1. arm
hangs a mantle, and his bow and quiver-case (decorated with black wave