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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radiated over the forehead. The attendant wears a girt chiton with apoptygma,
a fillet with a radiated stephane, and earrings. A broad exergue left red.

Exterior: (a) Apollo between two nymphs (?). Apollo, a full-grown
youth of effeminate type, with long wavy hair falling on his shoulders and
wreathed, resting his 1. on a branch (or tree ?) of laurel which he holds upright,
stands in three-quarter face to 1.: in his r. he holds the end of a small mantle,
which passes at his back and hangs over his 1. forearm. He looks towards a
woman (priestess ?) on 1., who offers him a phiale, which she has filled from an
oinochoe hanging in her r.; she wears a sleeved chiton, a himation leaving r.
shoulder free, and her hair in a knot supported by an embroidered double
sphendone. On r. an attendant stands holding up in her r. a curious object,
somewhat in form of a fleur-de-lis, coloured purple : on her 1. hand is a rect-
angular box, on which is a semicircular object : she wears a chiton schistos, girt
and with a colpos : her short hair is wound round with a fillet.

(b) Artemis (P) between similar figures. Artemis stands to 1., her 1. hand
resting on a sceptre, holding up in her r. an object like a fleur-de-lis, similar to
that in a; she wears a Doric chiton schistos, girt at the waist, with a shawl-
shaped garment hanging at her back from the shoulders; this garment is
embroidered with trefoils and fringed at the edge. Her hair is looped up, and
confined with a fillet ending in trefoils ; she wears a radiated stephane and
earrings. The woman on the 1. carries on her 1. a rectangular box, of which the
lid is raised, and a fringed taenia ; with her r. she raises above her r. shoulder the
edge of her himation ; she wears a sleeved chiton girt at the waist, himation
leaving r. shoulder free, and earrings, and her hair is looped up with a fillet,
as before. Behind her in the field hangs a taenia. The other woman holds on
her 1. a rectangular box decorated in three horizontal bands and with a curved
handle on lid ; in her r. a mirror : she is dressed like the last.

[Under the foot incised characters, old Cat. pi. B 969.]

E 104. KYLIX. Old No. 819. Ht. 4| in. Diam. n| in. Vulci. Durand Coll. No. 298.

Murray, Designs from Greek Vases, no. 62 ; cf. Hartwig, Meistersch. p. 675, note 1. Much
broken ; a small piece wanting in a and b. Style apparently in imitation of a good design,
but extremely careless in execution. Brown is used for inner markings. Eye of fully developed
profile type. Beneath and beside the handles, a quadruple palmette ornament.

Interior: Within a circle of single masanders, interspersed with six red
cross squares, Heracles strangling the Nemean lion. Heracles, youthful
and beardless, bending forward to r., has locked both arms from above around
the lion's neck, and with his head pressed downwards against its mane, com-
presses the throat so that the jaws are open and tongue protruding. The fore
paws of the lion are planted on the thighs of Heracles, whose club has fallen
behind him. The contest takes place on rocky ground, which is indicated by
an irregularly-shaped space left red. The hair of Heracles is crisp and curly ;
the curls indicated by raised dots.

[For beardless type of Heracles, cf. Jahrbuch, 1893, p. 161.]