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"NOLAN AMPHORA. 223
and flames of thunderbolt ; brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, and ends of hair.
Eye in a in transition ; in b archaic, with both angles open. Lower folds of drapery in groups
of four. Below each side, a strip of ornament, pairs of maeander set in alternate directions and
separated by red cross and dotted cross squares.
(a) Zeus striding to r. hurling thunderbolt; in 1. he holds his sceptre across
his body ; he is bearded and has long hair floating back on his r. arm, one lock
falling on chest. He wears a long sleeved chiton and himation, leaving r.
shoulder free, and a fillet. The sceptre has a pointed butt and lotus top. The
thunderbolt is in the form of two lotos buds united by a narrow bar.
(b) Semele ? A woman running to r., looking back with gestures of fear,
her 1. raised, her r. extended to 1. ; she wears sleeved chiton, himation, and
bracelets ; hair looped up and bound with a fillet.
[On the bottom of the foot an incised character R.]
E 314. NOLAN AMPHORA. Ht. 13} in. Nola. Temple Coll. Later stage of strong style,
probably by the same hand as E 315. Purple tuning-pegs of lyre, cord of plectrum and of
sybene. Brown inner markings, beards, marking of sybene and hair in b. Eye in transition.
The wreath is in brown outline. Below a, sets of three meanders alternate ways, separated by
dotted cross squares ; below b, key pattern.
(a) Anacreon (?), bearded reveller walking to r., wreathed with ivy and
playing on the chelys : his head hangs forward to 1., with eyes upturned as if he
were partly drunk, and he wears a mantle shawl-fashion over his shoulders ;
bis phallos is recurved ; from the side of the lyre hangs a sybene. At his 1. side
walks a hunting dog.
(b) An old man, bearded, and bald over the forehead, walking to r. with
staff held horizontally in his r., and a large cotyle on his 1. hand. Over his
shoulders is a mantle, shawl fashion as in a. He has a prominent paunch, and
his phallos is drawn like that of Geras in E 290, but recurved.
E 315. NOLAN AMPHORA. Old No. 880. Ht. 13" in. Hamilton Coll. D'Hancarvillc iii,
pl. 78 ; Panofka, Bild. ant. Leb. iv, 3, p. 6. Later stage of strong style ; apparently by the
same hand as E 314. Brown inner markings, and hair of dog. Wreath in brown outline. Eye
in transition. Edge of hair dotted. Patterns as preceding.
(a) Anacreon (?), a bearded man wreathed with vine, walking to r., playing
on the flutes; under his 1. arm he carries a crutch staff, at the top of which
hangs a chelys ; a mantle, rolled up, hangs at his back and over both arms ; in
front of him walks a rough-haired Spitz dog.
(b) An ephebos in a mantle, holding up on his 1. hand a kylix, moving to r.,
looking back and extending his r. hand as if to the flute player in a; r. foot in
foreshortening.
[For similar subjects cf. E 266, E 267, E 314.]
E 316. NOLAN AMPHORA. Ht. 13J in. Capua. Castellani, 1873. The surface of a Plate XII. 1.
(r. side of Athene) has received a dent while the clay was soft. Drawing fine, but somewhat
mannered, as in the standing female figure. Brown edge of hair, bracelets and necklace, and
and flames of thunderbolt ; brown inner markings, upper folds of chiton, and ends of hair.
Eye in a in transition ; in b archaic, with both angles open. Lower folds of drapery in groups
of four. Below each side, a strip of ornament, pairs of maeander set in alternate directions and
separated by red cross and dotted cross squares.
(a) Zeus striding to r. hurling thunderbolt; in 1. he holds his sceptre across
his body ; he is bearded and has long hair floating back on his r. arm, one lock
falling on chest. He wears a long sleeved chiton and himation, leaving r.
shoulder free, and a fillet. The sceptre has a pointed butt and lotus top. The
thunderbolt is in the form of two lotos buds united by a narrow bar.
(b) Semele ? A woman running to r., looking back with gestures of fear,
her 1. raised, her r. extended to 1. ; she wears sleeved chiton, himation, and
bracelets ; hair looped up and bound with a fillet.
[On the bottom of the foot an incised character R.]
E 314. NOLAN AMPHORA. Ht. 13} in. Nola. Temple Coll. Later stage of strong style,
probably by the same hand as E 315. Purple tuning-pegs of lyre, cord of plectrum and of
sybene. Brown inner markings, beards, marking of sybene and hair in b. Eye in transition.
The wreath is in brown outline. Below a, sets of three meanders alternate ways, separated by
dotted cross squares ; below b, key pattern.
(a) Anacreon (?), bearded reveller walking to r., wreathed with ivy and
playing on the chelys : his head hangs forward to 1., with eyes upturned as if he
were partly drunk, and he wears a mantle shawl-fashion over his shoulders ;
bis phallos is recurved ; from the side of the lyre hangs a sybene. At his 1. side
walks a hunting dog.
(b) An old man, bearded, and bald over the forehead, walking to r. with
staff held horizontally in his r., and a large cotyle on his 1. hand. Over his
shoulders is a mantle, shawl fashion as in a. He has a prominent paunch, and
his phallos is drawn like that of Geras in E 290, but recurved.
E 315. NOLAN AMPHORA. Old No. 880. Ht. 13" in. Hamilton Coll. D'Hancarvillc iii,
pl. 78 ; Panofka, Bild. ant. Leb. iv, 3, p. 6. Later stage of strong style ; apparently by the
same hand as E 314. Brown inner markings, and hair of dog. Wreath in brown outline. Eye
in transition. Edge of hair dotted. Patterns as preceding.
(a) Anacreon (?), a bearded man wreathed with vine, walking to r., playing
on the flutes; under his 1. arm he carries a crutch staff, at the top of which
hangs a chelys ; a mantle, rolled up, hangs at his back and over both arms ; in
front of him walks a rough-haired Spitz dog.
(b) An ephebos in a mantle, holding up on his 1. hand a kylix, moving to r.,
looking back and extending his r. hand as if to the flute player in a; r. foot in
foreshortening.
[For similar subjects cf. E 266, E 267, E 314.]
E 316. NOLAN AMPHORA. Ht. 13J in. Capua. Castellani, 1873. The surface of a Plate XII. 1.
(r. side of Athene) has received a dent while the clay was soft. Drawing fine, but somewhat
mannered, as in the standing female figure. Brown edge of hair, bracelets and necklace, and