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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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(54 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

E 717-721. ALABASTRA.

E 717. ALABASTRON. Ht. 4.5 in. Greece, 1873. Style of Epictclos, but somewhat careless.

Purple flower ; brown upper folds of chiton and inner markings. Eye in archaic type. Above
and below, a red line, and then a band of rays.

Two women and an ephebos. The ephebos, who wears a heavy mantle
and has slight hair on his cheek, leans forward against a staff, and from the
gesture of his 1. hand seems to address the woman who confronts him, holding
out in her 1. a fruit. Behind her is another woman holding in her 1. a flower.
Each woman wears a long undergirt chiton, a mantle decorated with crosses
over both shoulders, and a heavy saccos. The foremost one has a necklace
and earrings (brown).

E 718. ALABASTRON. Ht. 6 in. Rogers Coll. No. 329, 1856. Arch. Zeit. 1856, p. 248*,

no. 329 ; Wernicke in Sitzuhgsb. dcr arch. Gcs. 211 Berlin, 1889, p. 3 ; and Liebliugsu. p. 13 ;
Klein, Lieblingsinschr. p. 78.no. 1. The vase has in place of handles two small knobs coloured
purple ; the body is divided into two fields by strips of pattern (alternate maeander and red
cross square), which pass through these knobs and join two other strips encircling the vase ;
the upper strip is the same as the vertical ; the lower, tongue pattern. Style of Brygos.
Purple wreath, fillet, flower, cord of alabastron, and inscriptions in design. Brown upper
folds of chiton, edge of hair, and necklace. Eye archaic, lids close together. The lower part
of the chiton has no folds indicated. The treatment of the hair in (a) is unusual, a broad fringe
of wavy hair around the head, indicated by irregular strokes of brown. The figure in (6) resembles
a figure in the int. of E 68.

(a) A woman in long chiton, bordered himation and fillet, with a bushy
fringe of hair all round her head, stands to 1., holding up in r. towards her face
a flower. On 1. is a small diphros. Her himation has two large weights attached
to the ends. On the r. is inscribed, ACDFOAIJIA (<AVE, 'AftpoSicria icaXi). On the 1.,
TO$AOKEI EV+IPO, TcL-9 (for outw?) BoK€t Ev^(e)t/3W.

[This inscription has been variously read.]

(/>) A girl in long chiton and mantle, with short hair hanging to her neck
in a straight thick mass, wreathed, standing to 1., holding out in her r. an
alabastron hanging to a strap, with three cords attached to the neck. On the r.,
EPO$ANOEO KAVE, 'Epcoaavdeoo KaXij. On the 1., HOTAIJ KAVGJ, o 7rai9 /ca\o?.

Round the mouth of the vase is inscribed, on red ground, ACDPOAIJIA HAVE,
' AcppoSiata Kakrj.

[The Attic form, 'A<j>poBei<riat occurs as a woman's name in C. I. Gr. 744.]

E 719. ALABASTRON. Ht. y\ in. Elateia in Bceotia. Van Brantcghem Sale, 1892, Cat.

no. 83 ; Klein, Lieblingsinschr. p. 79. Severe style. Purple girdle, fillets, straps, wool and
inscriptions ; also two lines below the design. Eye archaic, with ball towards profile. Below
the knobs, which take the place of handles, an ornament composed of two palmcttes, one
reversed above the other, their tendrils joining in spiral ornaments. Below the designs, sets of
three maeanders separated by red cross squares ; above, a band of alternate palmette and
anthemion ; above this, tongue pattern.
 
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