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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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3go CATALOGUE OF VASES.

the greater part of the heads of Athene and Pandora have been restored in pencil, part of the
chiton of Pandora in water-colour. Fine broad style, a late stage of the severe. The interior is
covered with a white engobe, and has a thin brown circle drawn within i in. of the lip, and
forming the border of the design. Drawing in black outline, with inner details in brown ; hair
in black silhouette or strokes on a wash of brown ; the dresses of Pandora and Hephaestos are
brown with details in purple and white ; the borders, and the girdle of Athene, purple ; the a;gis
of Athene is a darker brown, with border and Gorgoneion drawn on it in white. The head-
dresses and the head of the hammer arc moulded and gilt on a raised ground. Eye of transition
type (pupil as dot against inner angle opened). The finger-nails are drawn in. The exterior
has red figures on a black ground, with fillets, wine, and cords in purple. Hair and beard of
old man in white. Below, a band of meander broken by red cross squares; below each handle,
a double palmette ornament.

Interior: The making of Pandora. In the centre Pandora or Anesidora
stands eji face, in a stiff attitude like an archaic xoanon, with feet together and
hands at sides ; with each hand she raises slightly an edge of her drapery ; over
her is inscribed her name, • NE$!A01?A, 'AJ^crt'Scopo. She looks to the 1. and
wears a long sleeved chiton undergirt and decorated with stars ; her hair falls
loose on her shoulders, confined with a fillet, which apparently Hephaestos has
just placed there ; Athene, appears to be fastening the chiton of Pandora on her
shoulders. The two deities are taller than Pandora. Athene on the 1. wears a
long chiton girt up at the waist with a girdle, the ends of which fall in front
under the upper fold of the chiton ; round her shoulders is the regis fringed with
snakes and set with Gorgoneion on the breast. The aegis is decorated with a
diaper pattern instead of scales (cf. the fragment, E 1347). Over her is her
name, A9ENAA, 'A.6rjvda. Hephaestos wears a somewhat scanty himation, and
holds in his 1. hanging at his side a hammer; his hair is short at the back, but
has the ends passed over the ears and confined with a gilded fillet. Behind
him is his name, HECDA-STOJ, rTI</)a[t]cttos. The figures rest on a thin black
ground-line cutting off an exergue left empty.

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Exterior: (a) Scene in the palsestra (?). In the centre a horse standing
to r. is approached by two ephebi, of whom the foremost, wearing chlamys,
fillet, and petasos hanging at his back, with a spear on his 1. arm, holds in his r.
a halter, which seems to be attached to the bit. The other is closely draped in
an himation, and-carries on his 1. arm a crutched staff, the handle pointing
obliquely downwards ; he wears a fillet. Beside the' horse in the background
stands a woman to 1. in a long sleeved chiton, himation, saccos, and stephane, who
holds up in her r. a honeysuckle-flower. Confronting her is a bearded man in
himation and fillet, with r. hand resting on his hip, leaning against a staff, who
offers her with his 1. a purse.

([>) Similar scene. The horse occurs as before, but is turned to 1. ;
beside it in the background is an ephebos in an himation and fillet, with a staff
in his r., standing en face, but looking to 1. at an ephebos who moves away,
looking back and leading the horse by a halter in his 1. ; he carries a spear and
 
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