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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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324 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

Two revellers: In centre, a large kelebe rests on the ground ; from the 1.
a youth rushes forward, dipping his r. arm into it as far as the elbow ; in his 1.
behind him he holds an askos ; his back view is presented, and his r. arm partly
conceals his face. On the r. a second youth rushes up, holding outstretched in
his r. hand a cotyle which he holds by the foot. Both figures are drawn as the
archaic " kneeling " type of runner.

E 569. ONE-HANDLED CUP. Old No. 900. Ht. 3 in. Wants part of the lip. Late rough

stage of severe period. Eye in simple profile. Below, a continuous thin red line.

Youth rushing to r., hurling with r. a stone (?), his 1. arm with mantle
hanging from it extended in front as a shield.

E 570. ONE-HANDLED CUP. Ht. 4*111. Diam. 4 in. Nola. Temple Coll. Refined, Plate XlX>

delicate style (like the Sphinx rhyton, E788, and knucklebone, E 804). Purple inscription, Fig. 2.
fillet, and berries of thyrsos. Fine brown inner markings. Eye in simple profile, with brown
pupil. Below, a thin red line, continuous.

Seilenos moving rapidly to 1. with 1. hand drawn back and r. raised over
his head, open with palm upward, as if he were throwing something ; he is bald
on the crown, and wears a fillet with a long vertical piece over the forehead.
On the 1. on the ground is a cotyle ; on the r., his thyrsos, set upright; it has
three bunches of berries at the head, and a horizontal sprout on each side of the
stem. Across the field, KAAOJ, /ca\6<;.

On the foot, incised characters, very finely traced : ^t and |^.



E 571-646. LEKYTHI.

[E 571-581 have red palmctte ornament on shoulder. E 582-605 have
black palmetto. E 606-641 have black rays. E 642-646 have no ornament on
the shoulder.]

E 571. LEKYTHOS. Ht. 13*111. Gela. Dennis, 1863. Arch. Zeit. 1864, p. 163*; /. H. S.

vol. iv, p. 97 ; Wernicke, Liebliiigsn. p. 89, no. 15 ; Klein, Lieblingsinsclir. p. 76, no. 17. Large
style. Purple inscription. Brown edging of hair and pupil of eye. Above and below, a strip
of sets of three maeanders separated by red cross squares. On the shoulder, a pattern formed
of a central inverted palmette from which issue two side palmettes horizontally, and on each
side of it below, a honeysuckle flower.

Eros, a full-grown boy with fillet and long hair falling down back and on
shoulders, flying to r., holding out in both hands by ears and hind-legs a hare,
over an altar in the form of an Ionic capital with necking of dots. On the
r., above the hare, +AP|vi|£EJ ; below the hare, KAVOJ, Xap/j,i8r)<; /eaXo?.

E 572. LEKYTHOS. Ht. 14^ in. Gela. Dennis, 1863. Surface much discoloured by fire.

Severe style. Purple bracelets and ends of stephane. Brown upper folds. Eye in transition
 
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