Walters, Henry Beauchamp; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 4): Vases of the latest period (London, 1896)

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with white dots (see J. H. S. xi. p. 229), and white girdle ; the other has her
hair tied in a club with a purple fillet embroidered with white dots, which
goes twice round her head ; otherwise she is attired as the first. On the 1.,
on the same level, is the upper part of Zeus to r., bearded, with long curls,
wreath, and drapery over 1. shoulder with chequer border, in r. hand a sceptre,
1. extended ; he is inscribed IEYZ, Zeu?. On the r. is Eos to 1., with hair
gathered in a knot at the back under a purple cap embroidered with white dots,
earrings, necklace, long chiton and apeptygma embroidered with palmettes and
engrailed border ; in r. hand she holds up a mirror; above her is inscribed
An£, (TI)co?. Under the lip of the vase is incised : PY0nNErPA<t>E, WvQwv ejpacpe.
{b) Dionysiac scene : In the centre is Dionysos, moving to r. and looking
to ]., beardless, with long curls, round which is a taenia tied at the back,
shoulder-belt with white dots, chlamys with border of dots over 1. arm, shoes,
thyrsos in 1. hand, to which is tied a purple taenia ; in r. hand a wreath from
which hangs a purple taenia. On either side is a Maenad, dancing to r.,
the one on the r. looking back. The one on the 1. has long curls, wreath,
necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton and apoptygma reaching to the hips
with borders of wave-pattern and dots, fastened with fibulae on the shoulders,
shoes, thyrsos in r. hand to which a purple taenia is tied, 1. hand raised. The
one on the r. has long curls, one of which hangs down in front of her face,
wreath, necklace, bracelets, long transparent chiton embroidered with dots,
which has slipped off her r. shoulder, thyrsos in 1. hand with purple taenia tied
to it, wreath in r. at which she is looking. On a higher level are seen the upper
parts of three figures : a youthful Satyr on the 1., a youthful male figure in the
centre, and Pan on the r. The Satyr wears wreath and shoulder-belt of white
beads, and holds out a tympanon in 1. hand to the youth who faces him ; he
has a wreath, shoulder-belt as the Satyr, and thyrsos in 1. hand. Pan is to
1., with small beard and moustache, wreath and shoulder-belt as the others ; his
body is stippled all over, and part of the goat-skin is visible ; his hands are
raised as if in astonishment.

BELL-CRATER. Old No. 1438. Ht. 14J in. Diam. 14$ in. From Magna Graccia.
Fourtales Coll., 1S65 {Cat. 328). Passeri, Pict. Eir. iii. pi. 2c6 ; Panofka, Cab. Pourtalbs,
pl. 10, p. 63 ff. ; id., Bild. Ant. Lcb. pi. 19, 10, and Griechinncn u. Cr. pi. ii. 10 ; Wicscler,
■l heatergebaude, pl. ix. 12 ; Schrciber-Anderson, Atlas of Class. Antiquities, pl. 5, fig". 6 ;
Christie, Disquisitions, p. 103 ; Champfleury, Caric. Ant.- p. 226 ; Heydemann in Jahrbuch, i.
(18S6), p. 291 ; Raoul-Rochette, Journ. des Savants, 1S35, p. 225, and Mem. des Numism.
P- 254, note ; Otfr. Miiller, Coll. gel. Anzeig. 1837, p. 1880; Boettiger, Idccn s. Archaol. d.
Mai. p. 201 ; Miiller, Handbuch, § 351. 5 ; Overbed:, Kunstmyth. {Zeus), p. 403 ff. ; Roschcr, i.
P- 246. Repaired and restored. Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and
purple. Above the designs, laurel-wreath ; below, wave-pattern ; below the handles, palmettes.

(a) Scene from a comedy ; nocturnal visit of an old man to a hctaera:
In the centre above is a window, through which is visible the upper part
of the hetaera with face painted white, hair confined under an open purple
cap embroidered with beads, and purple embroidered chiton (cf. /. //. S. xi.