Smith, Cecil Harcourt; British Museum <London> [Editor]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 3): Vases of the finest period (London, 1896)

280 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

E 457i. FOOT of a vase (stamnos ?). Ht. i{-in. Diam. 4 in. 1893. The foot is broader and of

shallower form than usual in the cups of Pamphaios. The interior (of which a small central
portion is preserved) has been painted black ; where the body joined on has been a purple ring.
The main moulding, which curves inwards, is left red, and has painted on it in black letters

riANffiAIOjAAEP.....ndvcftaios p' e7r[oir]crev ; the rest of the inscription has been worn away.

Beneath, in the centre, is modelled a small knot or spike (cf. B 379-380).

E 4572. FRAGMENT of a stamnos. Old No. 998^. Length 7 in. Ht. 3! in. Millingen, 1847.

Large style, with remains of archaism. Purple bracelets. Brown inner markings. The edge
of the hair is drawn in thinned black lines on a brown wash. Eye archaic. The fragment
is from the shoulder, and above it is a band of tongue pattern, separated from the neck by a
small moulding.

Dionysos pursuing a woman. Only the heads and shoulders, and the 1. arm of the
woman are preserved. Dionysos has long hair looped up and wreathed with vine, and long
wedge-shaped beard ; his chest is bare, but a mantle hangs from his shoulders ; with 1. extended
he pursues the woman to r. ; she has her hair looped up with a broad band, on which are four
marks (apparently letters), a chiton ornamented with stars, a mantle, and bracelets. She looks
back at her pursuer, raising with her 1. the drapery from her shoulder.

E 458—467. CALYX-FORM CRATERS.

E 458. CRATER. Old No. 786. Ht. I5f in. Diam. 17f in. Vulci. Durand Coll. no. 411 ;

Mon. deW Inst, ii, pll. 25-6 ; Ann. deW Inst. 1835, p. 242 ; Welcker, Alte Denkm. hi, p. 269 ;
Stephani, Comftte-Rendit, 1868, p. 43, no. 67 ; Overbeck, Kiinstmyth. (Apollo), p. 94, no. 30,
p. 402, no. 10 ; ibid. Atlas, pi. 24, 7 ; Heydemann, Iliupersis, p. 21, note 8a ; Overbeck, Her.
Bildw. pi. 26, no. 14, p. 633 ; Kretschmer, Gr. Vaseninschr. p. 126, no. 108 ; C. I. Gr. 774.6.
Style of Phintias. Purple fillet, sword-belts, and inscriptions. The hair of Aethra has been
painted white on black, with details in incised lines. Brown inner markings, pupil of eye ; a
brown wash is used for the coat of the fawn, the legs and ears (&to) of the tripod. The hair
and beard of Heracles are indicated as short curls by raised dots of black paint. The eyes are
in archaic type, with inner angle open ; that of Heracles has a dotted pupil; both eyes in a
have eyelashes along the upper and lower lids. The beards are long and wedge-shaped ;
nostrils indicated by a very faint black line ; and the same is used for indicating the outline of
the cheek of Aethra. The design is bordered above and below by a thin red line, within the
moulding of the vase, the crest of Acamas alone exceeding it. At the bottom of the body is a
band of tongue pattern.

(a) Contest of Heracles and Apollo for the tripod. Heracles, nude and
bearded, wearing only a fillet, moves to 1. with the tripod held across him in his
1. hand, so that the legs pass on each side of his body ; he turns round as he
moves, brandishing over his head in his r. his club. Apollo strides forward,
seizing with his 1. hand the lebes of the tripod, and with his r. the club of his
opponent; he also is nude, and wears his hair looped up (with a tress in front of
the ear), and a laurel-wreath. Between them the fawn of Apollo looks up at
the club of Heracles and shrinks backward. Each of the figures has a line
drawn across the 1. ankle.