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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LUCANIAN STYLE. 8 I

the head of the first youth is seen the lower part of a shield with device
of a star.

CRATER with medallion handles. Ht. 2 ft. 10J in. From the Basilicata. Blacas Coll.,
1867. Raoul-Rochette, Mon. Ined. pi. 66, p. 301 ; Inghirami, Gall. Omer. iii. 31 ; Ovcrbeck,
Her. Bildw. pi. xxvi. 17, p. 643 ; Arch. Zcit. 184S, pi. 15, I, p. 225 ; Baumeister, p. 750
(obverse); Heydemann, Iliupcrsis, p. 19; Ann. dell'Inst. 1877, p. 252; Rhein. Mns. 1835,
p. 615 ; Klausen, Aeneas u. d. Penaten, i. p. 154 ; Welcker, Alte Denkm. iii. p. 445. Slightly
injured. Designs red on black ground, with white accessories. Round the lip, egg-moulding ;
underneath, laurel-wreaths. Above the design, on the neck, ivy-wreath ; at the back of the
neck, ivy-wreath and palmettes. Below the handles, palmettes ; above each design on the
body, tongue-pattern, and below all round, maeander and crosses. The handles terminate
in swans' heads below, and above in female masks with rams' horns, in front white with
black hair and yellow markings, at the back black throughout.

On the neck in front : Dionysiac thiasos : In the centre is Dionysos
moving rapidly to v., looking back ; he is beardless, with long hair, wreath,
bordered chlamys over 1. arm held up in r. hand, thyrsos in 1. On either side of
him is a Maenad moving to r., with hair gathered in a bunch behind, earrings,
necklace, bracelets, and long girt chiton ; the one on the 1. has a thyrsos in r.
hand and a blazing torch in 1.; in front of her is a tendril. The other has a
radiated ampyx, chiton over 1. shoulder, and a tympauou in 1. hand ; she looks
upwards, and before her is an altar, on which is a fruit.

On the body : (a) Iliupersis : (1.) In the centre is represented Ajax seizing
Cassandra: In front of a xoanon of Athene is an altar with wave-pattern on
the cornice and imitation triglyphs and metopes in front (as on F 149) ; the
statue looks to r. and has long hair, high-crested helmet, long chiton with a stripe
of chevrons down the front bordered by wave-patterns, girdle with white studs,
aegis at back with snake-border, double-pointed spear couched in r. hand,
shield on 1. arm. On the altar is Cassandra, seated to 1. with face to front,
clasping the statue with both hands ; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace,
bracelets, long girt bordered chiton over r. shoulder, with apoptygma. On the
r. stands Ajax to 1. with r. foot slightly raised, beardless, with curly hair, white
high-crested helmet, bordered chlamys over 1. shoulder confined by a belt with
white spots, sword slung at side, long spear in I. hand ; in r. hand is his shield
(device of four-spoked wheel in white on black, surrounded by a broad white
band, outer rim of white dots), which he is laying down before seizing Cassandra.
Below the altar is a prochoos lying on its side (cf. F 209). On the r. is
Hecuba, or an aged priestess, running away and looking back, with white hair
and eyebrows, double yellow fillet, sandals, long chiton and apoptygma reaching
to the knees, embroidered down the front, and himation wrapped round her,
r- hand raised, 1. extended. (2.) On the 1., the sacrifice of Polyxena is
represented. Polyxena is fallen to r. at the foot of the statue, clasping it
with both arms ; she has long dishevelled hair, necklace, bracelets, long girt
chiton with a stripe down the side. Behind her is Odysseus running up
to carry her off (cf. Eur. Hec. 218 ff), with 1. hand extended to seize her;

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