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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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32 2 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

E 557. OLPE. Ht. n{ in. Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F 189. Handle broken; surface

damaged. Strong style, but drawing coarse. Purple leaves of vine. Below, a strip of
meander broken by red cross squares ; round the lip, egg pattern.

Dionysos (bearded, long hair with fillet, Ionic chiton and mantle) moving
to r., looking back, and holding extended in r. a vine which spreads over the
scene ; in 1. a thyrsos with branch of ivy sprouting from the stem.

E 558. OLPE. Ht. ill in- Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F 241. Surface damaged with fire and

marks of roots. Fine style, but careless. Purple fillet. Light brown hair on cheek. Eye in
profile. Below, strip of zigzags ; round lip, egg moulding.

Ephebos draped, wearing a fillet, running to r., brandishing crutch-staff over
his head, 1. hand raised.

E 559. OLPE. Ht. Ilj-in. Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F 28. Broken at back ; surface damaged

in front with fire and marks of roots. Rough careless style. Below, a strip of zigzags, as also
round the lip.

Ephebos and bearded man confronted, both draped ; the man (on r.) holds
staff.

E 560. OINOCHOE with high handle. Ht. Si in. Athens. Temple Coll. Graceful style.

Eye in profile. Purple (now nearly white) inscriptions and wreaths. Brown inner markings.
Below, a continuous band of egg pattern; and a strip of the same round the base of the neck.
Below the handle, an elaborate quadruple palmette ornament.

On the body : Three athletes, wreathed. The central one holds hori-
zontally in his 1. at his side a long rod, and holds up in his r. a strigil; he stands
to 1. with lips parted, as if addressing the one on 1., who stands in three-quarter
face with r. hand on hip and 1. raised as if talking. On the r. a third in three-
quarter face moves away with r. hand raised and looking back as if saying
farewell ; his lips arc also parted.

E 561. OINOCHOE with high handle. Old No. 898. Pit. y\ in. Towneley Coll. Graceful

style, but drawing careless. Purple (now nearly white) fillets. Brown inner markings. Eye
in profile, with eyelashes. Below, a strip of egg pattern.

On the body : Two athletes. In the centre is a stele, on the 1. of which
a draped ephebos stands (as paidotribes ?), pointing towards the stele with his
r. hand. On the r. a nude athlete moves away rapidly, looking back at the
other, and holding in his hands extended on either side of him, as if about to
leap, a pair of halteres. Each wears a fillet with a vertical piece over the
forehead. The hair of the paidotribes is wavy and falls to the shoulders.

E 562. OINOCHOE, with high handle. Old No. 888. Ht. 4J in. Nola. Durand Coll. no. 219.

Graceful style, but drawing careless. Eye in profile. Below, thin red line.

On body : Nike, in long chiton, himation covering both arms, and saccos,
flying to r. towards an altar in the form of an Ionic capital with necking of
billet-moulding. The volutes are roughly indicated by a V-shaped mark and
dots.
 
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