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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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ARYBALLI. 339

A Meenad, with thyrsos held obliquely on 1. arm, standing to r., holding out
a phiale over a square base or altar; she wears Ionic chiton, himation, and
bracelets, and her hair is looped up,

E 655. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 3} in. Nola. Blacas Coll. Graceful style. Purple fillet and rays

of stephane (now nearly white). Brown folds of drapery. Eye in simple profile. Below,
a thin red line ; round the neck, tongue pattern.

Nike, in a long sleeved chiton decorated with three rows of dots, a saccos,
and a radiated stephane, flying to r., holding in both hands a circular fillet.

E 656. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 4} in. Athens, 1S13. Burgon Coll. Surface injured. Graceful

style, but careless. Eye in profile. Below, a strip of egg pattern.

Nike in long chiton, hair looped up, flying to r., holding in her r. a square
box ; from her 1. hand drop two fruits (?).

E 657. ARYBALLOS. Ht. (present) 5! in. Blacas Coll. Wants the foot. Graceful style.

Brown sandals and edge of hair. Eye in profile. Below, a thin red line.

An ephebos in chlamys and sandals laced high around the calf, with a
pctasos hanging at his back, and holding a spear upright in his 1. hand, stands
in three-quarter face to r., with his head in profile to the r. On the r. is an
object of irregular form (a rock?).

E 658. ARYBALLOS. Ht. (present) 2J in. Athens, 1S14. Burgon Coll. Wants neck and

handle. Graceful style. Below, a continuous band of white (?). Edge of hair in thinned black.

Hesperos (?). Bust of a youth, with wavy hair falling to the shoulders, and
a mantle closely draped around his neck, rising from the ground to r. On the
r. is a large crescent.

[Perhaps, in connection with the scene on the crater E 466, the bust may be that of the
evening star, rising with the new moon. The moon is thus represented in late vase-painting,
sec F 573. Cf. E 659.]

E 659. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 4-in. Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F 269. Surface damaged. Graceful

style. Eye in profile. No ground-line.

Selene (?). Bust of a girl (closely wrapped in a himation, hair looped up
in sphendone) rising from ground to r. On r. a crescent.

[Hartwig, Meistersch. p. 356, note 1, describes a lekythos with similar subject, recently
acquired by the Berlin Museum.]

E 660. ARYBALLOS. Ht. (present) 1 \ in. Athens, 1814. Burgon Coll. Wants lip. The

clay has been burnt to an ashen gray. Graceful style. Eye in profile. Below, a thin red
line.

Bust of Persephone (?) rising from the ground to r., looking upwards : she
wears a mantle, and her hair is looped up with a fillet. On the I. a forked tree
with leaves, on the r. a plant with two spirals, rise from the ground ; perhaps an
indication of the vegetation consequent on the return to earth of Persephone.

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