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

80 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

F 159. CRATER, with medallion handles. Old No. 1428. Ht. 2 ft. 31 in. From the

Basilicata. Durand Coll. 381. Beugnot Coll. 49. Pourtales Coll., 1865 {Cat. 220). Inghirami;
Vasi Fitt. iii. 251 ; Raoul-Rochette, Mon. Ined. pi. xxvi. B ; Overbeck, Her. Bildiv. pi. xiv. 9,
p. 317 ; Baumeister, p. 756 ; Duruy, History of Greece, iii. p. 54 ; Creuzer, Zur Archdologie, i.
p. 165 ; Ann. dell' Inst. 1830, p. 131 ; Jahn, Arch. Beitr. p. 387 ; Vogel, Scenen Eurifi.
Tragod. p. 116 ; Murray, Handbook of Gk. Archaeology, p. 390 ; Overbeck, Kunstmyth. {Apollo),
p. 327 ; Arch. Zeit. 1869, p. 8, note. Designs black on red ground, with white accessories.
Shape as Fig. 2. Round the lip, (a) egg-moulding, (b) wave-pattern ; underneath, (a) ivy-
wreath and wave-pattern, (b) ivy-wreath and astragalus-pattern. On the neck : (a) above, laurel-
wreath ; below, two Gryphons rushing at each other ; between them a palmette ; (b) laurel-
wreath and palmettos. Above the designs, tongue- and egg-patterns ; below, all round,
maeander and crosses ; below the handles, palmettes. The handles terminate below in swans'
heads, as before ; above, in Gorgoncia, painted white, the hair yellow on obv., black on rev.
the pupils of the eyes black.

(a) The sacrifice of Iphigeneia: In the centre is a white altar on two
steps, with a chevron-pattern on the cornice and a knotted taenia hanging
from the front. On the further side of it stands Agamemnon (or perhaps
Calchas) to r., with face turned to front ; he is bearded, with himation wound
round lower limbs and 1. arm, in 1. hand a sceptre ; in r. hand he holds out
the sacrificial knife with which he is about to slay Iphigeneia, who stands
before him. She has dishevelled hair, bracelets, and long chiton with apoptygma
to the hips, and looks downwards ; on the further side of her are visible the
head, legs, and hinder parts of the hind substituted for her as a victim, which
stands on its hind-legs to 1. Behind her, on a higher level, is Artemis to 1.
looking down at her, with hair gathered under a double fillet, earrings,
bracelets, short embroidered chiton with girdle and cross-belt (both black with
large white studs), bordered chlamys fastened with a fibula in front, and
endromides with tops turned over, and white buttons, laced up the front ; bow
in r. hand, two spears in 1. On the 1. is a youth leaning forward to r., with
1. foot raised on a rock, embroidered himation over body and 1. arm, in r. hand
a purpleprochobs, in 1. aphialc in which are branches and fruit. Above his head
is Apollo seated on a rock to 1., looking back, beardless, with drapery under
him and a laurel-branch in r. hand ; on the extreme 1. of the scene is a female
figure to r. with hair in a knot behind, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton and
apoptygma, himation round lower limbs, in 1. hand a flower (?). Over the
altar are two white bucrania with chaplets of beads ; the ground-lines are
indicated by white dots.

[Cf. the picture by Timanthes, mentioned by Pliny, Hist. Nat. xxxv. 73.]

(/;) In the centre is a youth seated on drapery to r. with white fillet, and
two spears in 1. hand ; facing him is a female figure with hair in a knot,
earrings, necklace, bracelets, long girt chiton and apoptygma, and sandals, holding
up a phiale in r. hand. Behind her is a youth to 1. with fillet, drapery on 1.
arm and staff in r. hand. On the 1. is a female figure to r., with hair in a
knot, earrings, bracelet on r. arm, long girt chiton and apoptygma, himation over
1. arm, and sandals ; r. hand extended, in 1. she holds up a mirror. Above