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)

CANTHARI. 143

(a) A youthful charioteer in a long chiton, with pelta hanging at his back
by a cross-belt, steps on 1. into a quadriga, holding reins and goad in his
extended hands ; the horses are already springing to r., and in the background
beside them a warrior in helmet and chiton charges to 1., brandishing his spear,
and holding out to 1. a Boeotian shield (device, a large fighting cock stepping to
1., black silhouette edged with black dots). The chariot has a wheel of four
spokes, and the end of the pole terminates in a circular knob with a high central
projection and one shorter on each side; the collars of the horses have a fringe
of trefoil pendants.

(/>) A youth in a chiton, with a Boeotian shield (device, a sprig of ivy,
restored) on his r. arm and shoulder, holding spear in r., drives a quadriga in
three-quarter face to r. The two inner horses have their mouths towards each
other, and their faces in foreshortening, regardant; their harness is as in a ; the
chariot-wheel is drawn in false perspective, the circumference coming to an angle
above and below ; the spokes are drawn as two curves resting on each side of
a line which joins the angles, bisecting the circle. On the r. a warrior with
helmet tilted back, shield (device, the hindquarters of a horse, silhouette ;

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around it * %irea>vl), charges to 1. with couched spear. His helmet

has, instead of a crest, a plume proceeding from the centre.

E 155. CANTHAROS. Ht. 9= in. Nola. Pourtalcs Sale. Panofka, Cabinet Pourtalcs, pi. 7,

p. 37 ; RHOul-Rochette, Mon. Ined. pi. 40, p. 207 ; Nuovc Mem. deW Inst, ii, p. 388 (Kliigmann,
who was the first to identify the subject of b as Ixion), Klein in Arch. Zeit. 1880, p. 189, and
Murray, Handbook of Gk. Archaology, pi. viii, I, all give a ; Robert, Thanatos, p. 43 ; Robert,
Bild und Lied, p. 210 ; Hiibner inNord undSiid, 35, p. 371 ; Brunn in Deutsche Rundschau, 29,
p. 211 ; Schneider, Laokoon (Encykl. d. Wiss. u. Kiinstc, ii, pp. 42, 87); Overbcck, Her.
Bildw. p. 745 ; Vogel, Scenen Eurip. Tragbd. pp. 116, 141 ; Winter, Jung. Att. Vas. p. 55 ;
Cbrlitz Verhandi. 1S90, p. 306 (Forster) ; Classical Review, 1895, P- 277- Drawing of best
period (style of Epigenes ?). Purple blood, cord of pctasos, and sword-belt. Brown inner
markings, shading of altar, and of snake's body. A line is drawn across the ankle. Eye in
profile. Round the lip egg pattern.

(a) Suppliant at altar, seized by serpent. In the centre is an altar
with an Ionic capital, necking of zigzags, and three taeniae, or splashes of
blood, on the shaft: upon this a bearded rough-haired man has fled for
refuge, and kneels on it on his I. knee en face; in his r. hand he holds up a
sword, in his 1. a scabbard, and from his 1. arm hangs a mantle. A large
snake, coiled round his waist, bites him in the 1. shoulder; he looks in
terror to 1., where a beardless youth falls dead to 1., stabbed in the r. breast,
from which the blood flows ; his body is partly concealed behind the altar, a
mantle hangs over his shoulders, and his eyes are closed. On the 1. Thanatos,
a bearded winged figure, bends forward to receive him, raising him gently with a
hand under each of the youth's arms. On the r. of the altar is a laurel (?), beside
which a bearded figure in an himation and laurel (?) wreath, and holding in his
1. a dotted staff or sceptre, runs forward towards the central scene, holding out
in his r. hand a stone, as if to hurl it at the man on the altar.