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CATALOGUE OF VASES.
chelys ; the one following extends an arm on each side, as if beating time to
the music. In front, a third dances in a bent attitude with r. foot raised, and
an end of his himation in each hand. In the field KAAO£ repeated thrice.
(b) Three draped ephebi with fillets ; two to 1. face one holding a staff.
E 509!. FRAGMENT of a large crater (?). Old No. 998 h. Ht. 4! in. by 6J in. Millingen
Coll., 1847. Large style, of late period, resembling Assteas? The fragment is from the upper
part of the design, as the red line in the interior shows. Inner markings in fine brown. The
forehead is wrinkled, a vertical line marks a hollow in the chin. The outline of the hair, both
against forehead and background, is edged with fine black lines.
Scene from the Iliupersis (?), perhaps Andromache and Astyanax. A woman (Andromache ?
in Phrygian costume (indicated only on the sleeves), with a bordered mantle decorated with
E 509,.
trefoils at her back, to r., looking round in three-quarter face to 1. with an expression of
anxiety in her features. In her arms she holds a suckling infant, and in order to bare her 1.
breast she has let fall the upper part of her dress ; the edge she still holds in her teeth, so as to
cover her r. breast. The infant (Astyanax ?), of whom only the r. arm and side are seen, appears
to face the spectator, but to press with his r. arm around its mother's breast; on its wrist is a
bangle, drawn in black, with the remains of a pigment beside it which has now faded. On the
1. is a portion of some object, of which too little is preserved to be intelligible.
E 5092. FRAGMENT of a crater. Old No. 998 /. Ht. 5 in. by 7 in. Millingen Coll., 1847.
Smith, Diet. Ant? ii, p. 364. Late stage of good style. The inscription has been purple.
CATALOGUE OF VASES.
chelys ; the one following extends an arm on each side, as if beating time to
the music. In front, a third dances in a bent attitude with r. foot raised, and
an end of his himation in each hand. In the field KAAO£ repeated thrice.
(b) Three draped ephebi with fillets ; two to 1. face one holding a staff.
E 509!. FRAGMENT of a large crater (?). Old No. 998 h. Ht. 4! in. by 6J in. Millingen
Coll., 1847. Large style, of late period, resembling Assteas? The fragment is from the upper
part of the design, as the red line in the interior shows. Inner markings in fine brown. The
forehead is wrinkled, a vertical line marks a hollow in the chin. The outline of the hair, both
against forehead and background, is edged with fine black lines.
Scene from the Iliupersis (?), perhaps Andromache and Astyanax. A woman (Andromache ?
in Phrygian costume (indicated only on the sleeves), with a bordered mantle decorated with
E 509,.
trefoils at her back, to r., looking round in three-quarter face to 1. with an expression of
anxiety in her features. In her arms she holds a suckling infant, and in order to bare her 1.
breast she has let fall the upper part of her dress ; the edge she still holds in her teeth, so as to
cover her r. breast. The infant (Astyanax ?), of whom only the r. arm and side are seen, appears
to face the spectator, but to press with his r. arm around its mother's breast; on its wrist is a
bangle, drawn in black, with the remains of a pigment beside it which has now faded. On the
1. is a portion of some object, of which too little is preserved to be intelligible.
E 5092. FRAGMENT of a crater. Old No. 998 /. Ht. 5 in. by 7 in. Millingen Coll., 1847.
Smith, Diet. Ant? ii, p. 364. Late stage of good style. The inscription has been purple.