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E 786.
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shoulders, and bracelets, who holds on her r. hand a diminutive figure of a swan
flapping its wings (in silhouette); she raises her 1. hand, and her head seems to
be turned to 1. Behind her, Apollo comes, playing on a large kithara ; he has
long hair, a long sleeved chiton, and a mantle decorated with trefoils. Beside
him, his name, AfOVVON, ' AiroWmv. Last comes Artemis, in long sleeved
chiton and mantle, necklace and bracelets, who dances to r., looking back, and
playing on castanets. On the 1., her name, $lM^"i . . , "A/>]t€/M9. Beside the
caduceus of Hermes is inscribed an A, which is probably the first letter of the
name of Artemis.
RHYTON. Ht. 8yin. Diam. 5 in. 1885. The two-handled cup, on which the design is
painted, is supported by the head of a Seilenos and a woman, back to back, finely modelled
(cf. E 792). Around the forehead of the Maenad, and beside the ears of the Seilenos, is a row
of curls, prominently modelled in spiral form, and left red. Behind these the Maenad has a
saccos (?) coloured vermilion on purple, and the Seilenos a woollen fillet, the surface indicated
by rows of raised dots, coloured white. The flesh of the Maenad is left red, with details in
black ; her lips have been vermilion on purple ; her eyeball black, with brown ring round the
pupil, on white ground ; her ears are modelled in slight relief, with the details conventionally
rendered in black lines. The flesh of the Seilenos is vermilion ; his lips, which are parted,
purple, the teeth white, separated by brown lines ; his beard is in black glaze, scored with nine
wavy lines in the soft clay. His moustache, long and flowing, is modelled, and has been
coloured brown. Drawing in a rough style, suggestive of Brygos. White fillets, ivy, and inscrip-
tions. No inner markings. Eye in archaic type.
(a) Satyric scene (?). Within a cave, indicated by an irregularly-shaped
mass of overhanging rock on r., Dionysos (?), bearded, with long hair and
mantle, reclines to 1. against two striped cushions, holding in his 1. against his
breast a cotyle. He extends his r. to push away a Seilenos in the background,
who dances towards him, bending over him with both arms raised in a grotesque
attitude, as if he were trying to obtain the cotyle. On the 1., a second Seilenos is
seated on a square base looking on, and resting his 1. on a thyrsos, from the head
of which two ivy-branches sprout ; he extends his r. towards the group with a
gesture of command. All three figures wear fillets. In the field, KAVO$, «aXd?.
(b) Two reclining figures and a Seilenos. On the r. is a figure almost
exactly as Dionysos in (a), but without cotyle ; he places his r. on the back of a
similar figure reclining next him on 1., who has a short beard and hair, and who
extends his r. to receive a chelys from a Seilenos, who stands en face, with r. on
hip, and hands the lyre with his 1. hand. Each figure wears a fillet.
[Both scenes are closely analogous to those of the kylix E 66; therefore we may
perhaps consider the reclining figures in ib) as Dionysos and Heracles.]
E 787. RHYTON. Ht. 13-I-in. Diam. of cup, 6? in. Capua. Castellani, 1873. Thebodyofthe
vase is in the form of a seated Sphinx, a repetition of the type of E 788, but the modelling is
less finished, and the colours less well preserved. The colouring and gilding have been
apparently the same, but have been imperfectly restored ; the gilding round the hair seems to
be modern ; round the neck by a red cord hang three raised ornaments gilt. The filled-in
space between the legs is coloured vermilion on a white engobe, and there is no spout between
the forelegs. The whole rests on a plinth, encircled with a band of herring-bone pattern black
RHYTONS. 373
shoulders, and bracelets, who holds on her r. hand a diminutive figure of a swan
flapping its wings (in silhouette); she raises her 1. hand, and her head seems to
be turned to 1. Behind her, Apollo comes, playing on a large kithara ; he has
long hair, a long sleeved chiton, and a mantle decorated with trefoils. Beside
him, his name, AfOVVON, ' AiroWmv. Last comes Artemis, in long sleeved
chiton and mantle, necklace and bracelets, who dances to r., looking back, and
playing on castanets. On the 1., her name, $lM^"i . . , "A/>]t€/M9. Beside the
caduceus of Hermes is inscribed an A, which is probably the first letter of the
name of Artemis.
RHYTON. Ht. 8yin. Diam. 5 in. 1885. The two-handled cup, on which the design is
painted, is supported by the head of a Seilenos and a woman, back to back, finely modelled
(cf. E 792). Around the forehead of the Maenad, and beside the ears of the Seilenos, is a row
of curls, prominently modelled in spiral form, and left red. Behind these the Maenad has a
saccos (?) coloured vermilion on purple, and the Seilenos a woollen fillet, the surface indicated
by rows of raised dots, coloured white. The flesh of the Maenad is left red, with details in
black ; her lips have been vermilion on purple ; her eyeball black, with brown ring round the
pupil, on white ground ; her ears are modelled in slight relief, with the details conventionally
rendered in black lines. The flesh of the Seilenos is vermilion ; his lips, which are parted,
purple, the teeth white, separated by brown lines ; his beard is in black glaze, scored with nine
wavy lines in the soft clay. His moustache, long and flowing, is modelled, and has been
coloured brown. Drawing in a rough style, suggestive of Brygos. White fillets, ivy, and inscrip-
tions. No inner markings. Eye in archaic type.
(a) Satyric scene (?). Within a cave, indicated by an irregularly-shaped
mass of overhanging rock on r., Dionysos (?), bearded, with long hair and
mantle, reclines to 1. against two striped cushions, holding in his 1. against his
breast a cotyle. He extends his r. to push away a Seilenos in the background,
who dances towards him, bending over him with both arms raised in a grotesque
attitude, as if he were trying to obtain the cotyle. On the 1., a second Seilenos is
seated on a square base looking on, and resting his 1. on a thyrsos, from the head
of which two ivy-branches sprout ; he extends his r. towards the group with a
gesture of command. All three figures wear fillets. In the field, KAVO$, «aXd?.
(b) Two reclining figures and a Seilenos. On the r. is a figure almost
exactly as Dionysos in (a), but without cotyle ; he places his r. on the back of a
similar figure reclining next him on 1., who has a short beard and hair, and who
extends his r. to receive a chelys from a Seilenos, who stands en face, with r. on
hip, and hands the lyre with his 1. hand. Each figure wears a fillet.
[Both scenes are closely analogous to those of the kylix E 66; therefore we may
perhaps consider the reclining figures in ib) as Dionysos and Heracles.]
E 787. RHYTON. Ht. 13-I-in. Diam. of cup, 6? in. Capua. Castellani, 1873. Thebodyofthe
vase is in the form of a seated Sphinx, a repetition of the type of E 788, but the modelling is
less finished, and the colours less well preserved. The colouring and gilding have been
apparently the same, but have been imperfectly restored ; the gilding round the hair seems to
be modern ; round the neck by a red cord hang three raised ornaments gilt. The filled-in
space between the legs is coloured vermilion on a white engobe, and there is no spout between
the forelegs. The whole rests on a plinth, encircled with a band of herring-bone pattern black