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)

92 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

hand ; she is pursued by a youth with chlamys over his arms, and two spears in
1. hand. Next, a female figure moving to 1., looking back, with hair gathered
up, spliendone, long chiton and himation, mirror in r. hand, pursued by a youth
with chlamys over his arms, spear in 1. hand, and shield with device of a club
and bow. On the r. is a female figure moving to r. looking back, with hair in
knot at back, radiated fillet, long chiton and himation, r. hand extended ; facing
her is a youth running with r. hand extended as if to seize her ; he has a
fillet, chlamys over his arms, and two spears in 1. hand.

F 178. NESTORIS. Ht. 2 ft. 4 in. Diam. 10} in. From the Basilicata. Blacas Coll., 1867.

Slightly injured. Designs red on black ground, with occasional white accessories. Shape as
Fig. 5. On the neck and shoulder, panels ; on the neck each side, egg-moulding, palmettes,
laurel-wreath, wave-pattern and maeander ; on the shoulder, tongue- and chequer-patterns.
Below the designs all round, maeander ; below the handles, palmettes. On the upper handles,
in front and at the back, crenelle-patterns ; up the sides, laurel-wreaths ; each has a cross-bar
at the side and on the top ending in disks on which are painted stars.

(a) Apotheosis of Heracles: In the centre is Heracles looking back to
L, beardless, with fillet, lion's skin tied in front and hanging over 1. arm, club
in r. hand, bow in 1. On the r. is Athene to 1., with long curls, embroidered
spliendone and opistJiospJiendone, earrings, necklace, long girt chiton with stripe
down front and apoptygma reaching to the hips, fastened on the shoulders,
himation over arms, and sandals ; in 1. hand two spears and shield with wave-
pattern round the boss and band of dots round the rim ; in r. she holds out
a high-crested helmet with two large plumes. Behind her is a taenia, and
between them a tendril with palmette and lotos-flower. On the 1. is Hermes
to r., beardless, with fillet, bordered chlamys fastened with fibula in front, and
endroniides, r. hand on hip, in 1. he holds up his cadnceus. Behind him is
Nike on a higher level hovering to r. ; she has hair tied in a bunch behind,
fillet, earrings, necklace, bracelets, sandals, long girt bordered chiton and
apoptygma reaching to the hips, fastened on the shoulders, with a stripe down
the side and lower border of wave-pattern. She has a phialc in r. hand, and
in 1. holds out a laurel-wreath to crown Heracles ; below her is a laurel-twig.
Above the scene all along is a canopy.

(b) Combat of two warriors: They arc beardless, with fillets, short
chitons with borders of dots, and girdles with dots, bordered chlamydcs
floating behind, endroniides, shields with borders of dots, two spears each in
1. hand, and swords brandished in r. hands. Above, between them, as if
appearing from behind a heap of stones, is the upper part of a Satyr to r.,
with r. hand extended and 1. raised to forehead. Facing him is Nike hovering
in the air, with hair in a knot at back, long chiton with a stripe down the
side and apoptygma, bracelets, and sandals, in 1. hand a phialc; in r. she holds
out a laurel-wreath and a taenia. On the 1., on a higher level, is a youth
to r., with fillet, bordered himation over 1. shoulder in which his 1. hand is
muffled, and endroniides, leaning on a staff; in r. hand he holds out a laurel-
wreath ; below him is a tendril with a palmette.