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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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OINOCHCME. 323

E 563. OINOCHOE, with high handle. Old No. 899. Ht. 6 in. Hamilton Coll. Surface

injured in parts. Graceful style. Purple fillet. Eye in profile. Below, a strip of egg
pattern.

An ephebos standing to r., holding out his r. hand ; he wears a fillet with a
vertical piece over the forehead, and has a mantle wound round his 1. arm.
Behind him is a stele.

E 564. OINOCHOE, with spout. Old No. 995. Ht. 7i in. Steuart Coll., 1846. Broken in

several parts and restored across the breakages. Graceful drawing of best period. Eye in
profile. Below, a band of sets of three masanders broken by chequer squares. On neck, a
scale pattern, consisting of zigzag rows of alternate red scales and black within red outline.
Below handle, a triple palmetto ornament spreading on each side.

On body : A youth in himation, wreathed with laurel, holding out in r. a
fluted phiale to be filled by a woman who stands on 1., holding in her r. at her
side a fluted oinochoe ; she wears Ionic chiton and himation, and her hair is looped
up in an embroidered sphendone. On r. a second youth in himation and fillet
stands to front, looking on. Both the youths have wavy hair reaching to
shoulders.

E 565. OINOCHOE, with spout. Old No. 897. Ht. 7$ in. Nola. Durand Coll. no. 742. Late

stage of fine style. The design occupies the shoulder. Purple is used for the head-dress of
the r. hand and the rays of the 1. hand figure. Eye in profile. Round the neck is a myrtle-
wreath, with stem and flowers in purple. Immediately below the shoulder, egg pattern.

Two ephebi. The one on 1., leaning forward with draped 1. arm on a staff,
holds out a fluted phiale towards the other, who stands en face but looks at him,
with an oinochoe hanging in his r. hand and a kylix by one handle in his 1.
Each wears a fillet with three upright rays issuing from it.

E 566. OINOCHOE, with spout. Ht. 5; in. Nola. Temple Coll. Careless drawing.

On the front of the shoulder is a swan, pluming itself, to r.

E 567. OINOCHOE. Old No. 890. Ht. $\ in. Nola. Durand Coll. no. 185. Late stage of

severe style. Purple inscription, wreath, and branches of thyrsos. Thinned black ends of hair
and bracelets. Below, a strip of egg pattern. Round the lip, hatched lines. On the upper
surface of the handle, a V-shaped space left red.

Maenad, moving rapidly to r., brandishing over her head a thyrsos, and
extending 1. hand over a hind which she drives before her. She wears an Ionic
chiton with girdle, bracelets, and a wreath; her hair flies loose behind, part
falling on the 1. shoulder. Two ivy-branches spring from her thyrsos close
under the head. On r., an imitation inscription.

On the foot, incised characters NV.

E 568. ONE-HANDLED CUP. Ht. 3f in. Diam. 4; in. Cameiros, 1863. Coarse, rough

drawing of severe period. No purple or inner markings. Eye of archaic type. Hair edged
with dots. Below, a continuous thin red line. On the top of the handle a V-shaped patch is left
uncovered by the black glaze, and the under side of the base is painted in concentric rings.

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