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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CATALOGUE OF VASES.

E 650. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 3A in. Nola. Blacas Coll. Graceful style. Purple fillet and

tie of cap. Eye in simple profile, with eyelash. Below, a thin red line.

A woman with long sleeved chiton, himation, and fillet, seated on a diphros
to 1., looking down with mouth open as if speaking, and extending both hands
with palms outward, to the 1. Her heels rest close together on the ground, and
the toes are raised. On the r. hangs a striped saccos.

Fig. 26 = E 652.

Fig. 25 = E65o.

E 651. ARYBALLOS. Old No. 997. Ht. 3 in. 1847. Broken and re-varnished ; the upper

part of the design wanting. Graceful style. Eye in profile. Below, a strip of egg pattern.

A nude girl (?) bending to 1. to lay a rolled-up mantle on the ground beside
a skyphos, of which the lip is decorated with a row of dots.

E 652. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 2&-in. Nola. Blacas Coll. Graceful style. Eye in profile type,

with eyelash. Below, a strip of egg pattern.

Eros (as a grown boy) crouching to r. with arms folded around r. knee,
watching a plant with two spirals which springs from the ground.

E 653. ARYBALLOS. Old No. 901. Ht. 3-5-in. Nola. Durand Coll. no. 729. Unusual form.

Later stage of severe style ; head of boy too large. Eye in archaic type. Below, a thin red line.

Nude boy to r., plunging both arms into a large loutron, the upper part of
which has an imitation inscription. Above it hang a sponge, aryballos, and
strigil.

E 654. ARYBALLOS. Old No. 892

but careless.

Nola. Durand Coll. no. 183. Drawing of good period,