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144 CATALOGUE OF VASES.
[Klein's identification of the subject as that of Laocoon has been shown by Robert to be
incorrect. Elsewhere {Thanatos, p. 43) Robert had been led by a similarity of appearance
between the suppliant on a and the Ixion on b to think of an earlier crime, in which Ixion had
craftily caused the death of his father-in-law. But as the incidents of that crime, including the
pit with fire carefully concealed, are circumstantially given by Pherekydes, and as they are
completely at variance with the scene on the vase, he let the matter drop. The account of
Pherekydes is given by the Scholiasts to Pindar {Pyth. ii, 39) and to Apoll. Rhod. loc. tit., from
which it appears also that Ixion was purified by Zeus from that earlier crime. Since then
Mr. Cecil Smith {Classical Review, loc. cit.) has argued for this view, but without any fresh
evidence. So that the difficulty remains insuperable as before of reconciling the scene on the
vase with the circumstantial account of Pherekydes, supported as it is by Pindar himself
{Pyth. ii. 32), where he says that Ixion's murder of his relative was 6vk lirep rexvas-—A.S.M.]
(b) The punishment of Ixion. On the 1. in a high-backed throne Hera is
seated, in a long chiton, a radiated stephane, and a mantle which conceals all but
her face. Before her Ares on 1. and Hermes on r. lead by the arm Ixion, a
figure resembling the kneeling figure in a, who looks at her, as does also Ares,
who has long hair and beard, a cuirass over a short chiton, and a spear leaning
obliquely against his r. shoulder. Hermes is bearded, and has a short girt
chiton, chlamys, petasos, and high endromides, and a caducous in his 1. hand.
These three figures are all en face. Hermes looks to r. towards Athene, who
addresses him, holding upright with her 1. hand, on its edge, the winged wheel
of four spokes (TeTpd/cvij/xov rpo^op, Schol. Apoll. Rhod. Arg. 3, 62). She wears
a long chiton with apoptygma and diploi's, undergirt, and a helmet with raised
chcekpieces, which are painted black ; her long hair falls loose on her shoulders.
E 156. CANTHAROS, with closed-in top, at one side of which is an aperture i^ in. long by fin.,
communicating with the centre of the.bottom by means of a shaft walled off from the interior.
The lid is painted black and decorated with concentric mouldings : in its centre is a moulded
Gorgon mask {\\ in. diam.) painted white with black hair and red tongue. Ht. 64 in. Blacas
Coll. Muse'e Blacas, pi. xii, p. 38 ; Inghirami, Gal. Om. iii, 24 ; Overbeck, Her. Bildw.
pi. xxxi, 1, p. 34, no. 37 (wrongly described as an amphora), and p. 754, no. 5 ; Ritschl, Ino
Leukothea, 1865, p. 19, pi. 2, 3 ; cf. Gerhard, A.V. iii, p. 132 ; Ann. dell' Inst. 1829, p. 277,
and 1876, p. 350; Bull, dell' Inst. 1838, p. 12; Baumeister, p. 1037 ; Bolte, De Monum. ad
Odyss. pert. p. 37 ; C. I. Gr. no. 7698. Late stage of fine period. Purple inscriptions, fillet,
belt, and rock. Brown markings. Eye in profile.
(a) Odysseus and Leucothea. The scene is that described in the Odyssey
vi 333 foil., where Leucothea, having given to the shipwrecked Odysseus the
mystic credemnon, which is to carry him through the waters, returns into the
sea. On the 1. Odysseus, nude, with rough hair and beard, stands as if in
astonishment, holding a long beaded fillet (the credemnon) in both hands : he
gazes at Leucothea, who sinks away on the r. into the sea, looking back at
him. The sea is not indicated, but the action of Leucothea is expressed by the
pose of her body as she falls away with bent knees, her arms hanging at her
sides ; she wears a Doric chiton with apoptygma, and her hair is knotted behind
with a fillet wound thrice round it. Beside Odysseus is inscribed his name,
OAY^ev^, '08vaev<>. Beside Leucothea, kavh, Ka\i].
[Forme ly interpreted as Odysseus and Nausicaa.]
[Klein's identification of the subject as that of Laocoon has been shown by Robert to be
incorrect. Elsewhere {Thanatos, p. 43) Robert had been led by a similarity of appearance
between the suppliant on a and the Ixion on b to think of an earlier crime, in which Ixion had
craftily caused the death of his father-in-law. But as the incidents of that crime, including the
pit with fire carefully concealed, are circumstantially given by Pherekydes, and as they are
completely at variance with the scene on the vase, he let the matter drop. The account of
Pherekydes is given by the Scholiasts to Pindar {Pyth. ii, 39) and to Apoll. Rhod. loc. tit., from
which it appears also that Ixion was purified by Zeus from that earlier crime. Since then
Mr. Cecil Smith {Classical Review, loc. cit.) has argued for this view, but without any fresh
evidence. So that the difficulty remains insuperable as before of reconciling the scene on the
vase with the circumstantial account of Pherekydes, supported as it is by Pindar himself
{Pyth. ii. 32), where he says that Ixion's murder of his relative was 6vk lirep rexvas-—A.S.M.]
(b) The punishment of Ixion. On the 1. in a high-backed throne Hera is
seated, in a long chiton, a radiated stephane, and a mantle which conceals all but
her face. Before her Ares on 1. and Hermes on r. lead by the arm Ixion, a
figure resembling the kneeling figure in a, who looks at her, as does also Ares,
who has long hair and beard, a cuirass over a short chiton, and a spear leaning
obliquely against his r. shoulder. Hermes is bearded, and has a short girt
chiton, chlamys, petasos, and high endromides, and a caducous in his 1. hand.
These three figures are all en face. Hermes looks to r. towards Athene, who
addresses him, holding upright with her 1. hand, on its edge, the winged wheel
of four spokes (TeTpd/cvij/xov rpo^op, Schol. Apoll. Rhod. Arg. 3, 62). She wears
a long chiton with apoptygma and diploi's, undergirt, and a helmet with raised
chcekpieces, which are painted black ; her long hair falls loose on her shoulders.
E 156. CANTHAROS, with closed-in top, at one side of which is an aperture i^ in. long by fin.,
communicating with the centre of the.bottom by means of a shaft walled off from the interior.
The lid is painted black and decorated with concentric mouldings : in its centre is a moulded
Gorgon mask {\\ in. diam.) painted white with black hair and red tongue. Ht. 64 in. Blacas
Coll. Muse'e Blacas, pi. xii, p. 38 ; Inghirami, Gal. Om. iii, 24 ; Overbeck, Her. Bildw.
pi. xxxi, 1, p. 34, no. 37 (wrongly described as an amphora), and p. 754, no. 5 ; Ritschl, Ino
Leukothea, 1865, p. 19, pi. 2, 3 ; cf. Gerhard, A.V. iii, p. 132 ; Ann. dell' Inst. 1829, p. 277,
and 1876, p. 350; Bull, dell' Inst. 1838, p. 12; Baumeister, p. 1037 ; Bolte, De Monum. ad
Odyss. pert. p. 37 ; C. I. Gr. no. 7698. Late stage of fine period. Purple inscriptions, fillet,
belt, and rock. Brown markings. Eye in profile.
(a) Odysseus and Leucothea. The scene is that described in the Odyssey
vi 333 foil., where Leucothea, having given to the shipwrecked Odysseus the
mystic credemnon, which is to carry him through the waters, returns into the
sea. On the 1. Odysseus, nude, with rough hair and beard, stands as if in
astonishment, holding a long beaded fillet (the credemnon) in both hands : he
gazes at Leucothea, who sinks away on the r. into the sea, looking back at
him. The sea is not indicated, but the action of Leucothea is expressed by the
pose of her body as she falls away with bent knees, her arms hanging at her
sides ; she wears a Doric chiton with apoptygma, and her hair is knotted behind
with a fillet wound thrice round it. Beside Odysseus is inscribed his name,
OAY^ev^, '08vaev<>. Beside Leucothea, kavh, Ka\i].
[Forme ly interpreted as Odysseus and Nausicaa.]