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

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egg moulding. Below b, a band of sets of three meanders broken by chequer squares. The
handle is painted with rows of scales alternately red and black, like a snake's back ; below it, a
small palmetto on a larger one, with tendrils. Round the lip, egg moulding.

i. (On the body) Warrior and charioteer. The warrior, who is beardless,
and has long hair looped up over the ears with a fillet, stands to front, holding
spear in 1. across his body ; he wears short chiton, cuirass, and a mantle over
1. shoulder and arm : he looks to 1., apparently conversing with the charioteer,
and with his r. points towards a helmet lying on the ground between them.
The charioteer is bearded, and has wavy hair falling to shoulders, long girt
chiton, and a fillet; he walks to r. holding goad in r. hand, the 1. being
clenched. On 1., behind the charioteer, two horses stand beside a tree, one
pawing the ground impatiently. On r. is another tree with spreading branches,
from which hang on 1. a mantle and sword, on r. a single greave. Against the
trunks lean on the r. a shield seen in profile, on the 1. a chariot with pole tilted
high up ; the yoke is seen in foreshortening, and from it hang the two collars ;
on the side of the chariot are tresses of long wavy human hair, which may have
been shorn for dedication, like that of Achilles to the river Spercheios (//. xxiii.
141). The cuirass is marked with diagonal lines between vertical stripes, and
has shoulder-pieces decorated with a black star, and curved pteryges. The
helmet is nearly conical in form, with an arched plume rising straight out
of the apex ; the cheek-piece is decorated with a snake, the back with two
spirals.

[For a similar cuirass, cf. Overbcck, Her. Bildw. pi. xiii, no. 7.]

2. (On shoulder) Two Seileni surprising a sleeping Msenad. The
Maenad, in a long girt chiton, over which is a nebris, long wavy hair with fillet,
and mantle on 1. shoulder, reclines to r. on rising ground, asleep, with her
thyrsos laid along her r. arm. The Seilenos on L, crawling forward on hands
and knees, has just reached her feet, and, with 1. supported on a small hillock,
extends his r. towards her knees. The other on r. moves forward on tiptoe,
body and arms bent in a posture of expectancy. Both are wreathed with ivy.
On the foot, incised characters, pIVA.

[In style this vase resembles the amphora in Gerhard, A. V. iii, pi. 1S4; the warrior
very similar to this is there inscribed as Achilles. A vase of identical subject and form is
stated {Ann. dell'Inst. 1878, p. 93) to have been found with this one, and to be in the posses-
sion of Aug. Castellani.j

E 556. OLPE. Ht. Ilf in. Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F136. Wants part of lip. Late stage

of fine style. Light brown inner markings. Eye in profile. Below, a strip of ivy-leaves, black
on red.

Youth to front, looking to 1. and holding out in r. a chelys ; himation
covering 1. arm ; hair wavy, falling to shoulders. On r. is a square base
surmounted by a plinth which is inscribed ao$K, ic{a)\6^ (?). Above hangs a
plectrum decorated with trefoils.

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