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be the aicpa Kopvufia, sec Torr, Ancient Ships, p. 68, note 152. Nike holds it on B 608-9 ;
compare the design on a sard scaraboid from Cyprus in Brit. Mus. ; also Millingcn, Anc.
Uned. Mon. pi. 29; and the description by Pausanias (v, 11, 5) of the figure of Salamis
holding tov ejri ra'is vavalv uKpais noLovfievov Koarpov. For the various interpretations suggested
and the form of name, see Arch. Zeit. loc. cit. Keil, Anal. Epig. p. 171, suggests that 'Hp«s
is a contracted form for 'Hpaw.]

E 300. NOLAN AMPHORA. Ht. 13 in. Nola. Blacas Coll. Broken in two, but

designs intact. Bull, dell' Inst. 1829 p. 21 ; Wernicke, Lieblingsn. p. 72, nos. 5 and 6 ; Klein,
Lieblingsinschr. p. 84, no. 4 (gives cut) ; Heydemann, Naples Cat. p. 474, note 2 ; C. I. Gr.
7835. Severe style, many traces of preliminary sketching. Purple reins, fillets, cord of petasos,
and inscription. Brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, forelock of horse, and fringe
of hair over face. Eye in transition ; that of the horse has for pupil a black dot within a disk '
of brown. Below each design, a strip of running mseander.

(a) Horseman (Hippeus). A youth galloping to r. on horseback, with
couched spear ; his long hair is looped up with a fillet, and has a fringe in
front ; a petasos hangs at his back, and a mantle shawl-fashion over both
arms. On 1. KAE;NIAS; KAAO§, K\e(l)vla<i icaXos. A stroke of the brush has
slipped from the background over the edge of his petasos. •

(b) A woman in long sleeved chiton and himation, hair as in a, stands
to 1., extending r. as if welcoming the youth in a.

E 301. NOLAN AMPHORA. Ht. I2>- in. Capua. Castellani, 1873. Style of Duris.

Purple inscriptions, blood, cord and plectrum of lyre, and fillets. Brown for inner markings
for the hair (except on the actual crown), and for pupils of eyes in a ; also for tattooing of the
Thracian woman in a. Eye large, of archaic form, with black dot on brown disc for pupil
in a, and inner angle open ; in b the pupil is a black disc. Above the r. ankle of Orpheus a
horizontal line is drawn, cf. E 583. Patterns exactly as E 319.

(a) Orpheus slain by a Thracian woman. On the r. Orpheus, a youth
with long hair looped up over his ears, a fillet, and a mantle which is slipping off
behind from both arms, falls as he flees to r., looking back and extending his r.
with a gesture of suppliance to his pursuer. In his 1. hand he carries a chelys
of which the plectrum, attached by a cord, drags on the ground ; a large spit
with square black head passes through his r. side and comes out at the navel,
and from each end of the wound blood issues. The Thracian woman strides
forward, with a lance with broad blade couched in her r., to deal a finishing
stroke ; her 1. arm, wrapped in a mantle, is extended as a shield, and she wears
a long chiton with apoptygma, girt at the waist; on the front of her neck, the
inside of her r. forearm, and the instep of each foot is a check pattern indicating
tattooing. In the field $UOVAX, Ka\6<; ? and »/JVO*HOrAV*, koXos 6 ttcu?. The
plectrum, drawn in outline, projects over the border.

(b) A Thracian woman as in a, but not tattooed, running to 1., brandishing
in her r. a lance with square butt (spit ?), as if about to hurl it. On the 1.
*OVAX, Ka\6<i.

[For representations of tattooing, cf. Ann. delP Inst. 1829, p. 267, and 1871, p. 127 ; also
/. H. S. vol. 9, pi. vi, p. 146.]