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)

34-0 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

E 661. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 3} in. Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F 89. Drawing of good period,

but careless.

Woman to r., pouring a libation from a phialc in r. hand over a square
altar (?); she has hair in a knot, earrings, long chiton, and himation.

E 662. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 5]-in. Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F 13? Surface damaged. Graceful

style, but careless. Eye in profile, with eyelash. Below, a thin red line.

Nike, in a girt Doric chiton, with hair looped up, standing to r., holding out
both hands over a spiral plant which rises from the ground.

E 663. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 5f in. Cameiros, 1861. Surface damaged. Graceful style. Eye

in profile. Below, a thin red line.

Sphinx seated to 1. beside a flower with two spiral tendrils.

E 664. ARYBALLOS. Ht. (present) 2 in. Thymbra, Troad, 1877. Presented by A. W.

Franks, Esq. Wants handle and neck. Surface of figure injured. Graceful style, but careless.
Eye in profile. Below, a strip of egg pattern.

Sphinx couchant to r., 1. forepaw raised.

E 665. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 7-J in. Athens, 1813. Burgon Coll. Nearly intact. Graceful

style. Brown edge of hair ; the down on the check and upper lip of the youth is indicated
by brown dots. Eye in profile, the pupil a complete circle. The outline of the hair is wavy;
in that of the youth, the actual hair is not waved at the edge, and each wave of the red outline
has been filled with a brush-mark in brown. Below, a strip of egg pattern. Round the base of
the neck, tongue pattern.

Heads of youthful male and female figure, confronted : the female head on
the 1. has her hair looped up with a sphendone decorated with stars, and wears
earrings, necklace, and a wreath. The male head wears a wreath and mantle.
Between them a flower with two spirals springs from the ground.

[For the explanation of this subject as Persephone and Triptolemos, cf. Frohncr, Choix de
Vases, p. 35 ; Arch. Zeit. 1885, p. 191 ; and Robert, Arch. Marchcn, p. 202]

E 666. ARYBALLOS. Ht. (present) 3I-in. Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F 244. Wants neck and

handle. Graceful style. Eye in profile. Below, a thin red line.

Girl running to r., holding in r. a spiral plant; she wears a girt Doric
chiton, and has her hair looped up.

E 667. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 4f in. Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F41. Graceful style. Eye in

profile. Below, a thin red line.

Sphinx seated to r., 1. paw raised.

E 668. ARYBALLOS. Ht. 4T'5 in. Cameiros, 1864. Tomb F 229. Surface much injured.

Graceful style, becoming careless. Eye in profile. Below, a thin red line.

Eros flying to i\, extending his arms over an altar (?).