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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and stands on a slight eminence; his figure has been repainted and restored as
a female figure in a long chiton. Between them is a stele with cap in the shape
of a palmette (modern) and plinth, above which two courses of masonry are
marked in modern paint. On either side of the youth is a plant; above hang
a ball marked with a cross, and an embroidered taenia; the ground is indicated
by a line of dots.

p 270. CRATER. Ht. 21^in. Diam. 19-jin. From Apulia. Blacas Coll., 1867. Musie Blacas,

pis. 7, 8 ; Welcker, Alte Dcnkm. iii. p. 117 ; Arch. Zeit. 1843, P- ^3, 1844, pi. 14, p. 226, 1867,
p. 43, 1884, p. 256 ; C. O. Miiller, Kleinc Schriften, ii. p. 498; Wiener Vorlegebl. E. pi. 6, fig. 1 ;
Daremberg and Saglio, i. p. 766 ; Mem. de /'Acad, dcs Inscrs. N. S. xxi. pt. 2, p. 104 ; Winkler,
de Inferorutn repracscnt. p. 27 ; Baumeister, p. 1930 ; J. H. S. xiii. p. 85 ; Bloch, die zusc/iau-
enden Gotter, pp. 30, 68. Much repaired and restored. Designs red on black ground, with
white and purple accessories. Above the designs, laurel-wreath ; below the handles, the body
of the vase is fluted.

(a) Scene in Hades, perhaps representing the Samothracian mysteries :
The figures are in two rows ; on the lower level, in the centre, is a boundary
term to the front with long hair and radiated ampyx, perhaps Apollo ; the term
stands on two steps, and has a projection on either side. On the r. is Orpheus
to 1. (his head obliterated), in himation and sandals, holding out his lyre in r.
hand, and with 1. holding back Kerberos by a chain ; he leans on a staff. Ker-
beros is painted white, with three heads with purple collars, and rears up to 1. ;
between Orpheus and the term is a large tree reaching up to the top of the
scene. Behind Orpheus is Eurydike seated to the front on a block, looking at
Orpheus ; she has long chiton and himation ; beyond her is a tree. On the 1. is
a youth looking round to r. and stretching out r. hand to Orpheus' lyre ; he has
a white petasos, chlamys over 1. arm, and two spears in 1. hand ; Orpheus acts as
/ybvaTayooyos to him. Next to the youth is a paidagogos to r., with white hair and
beard, short white sleeved chiton, chlamys with broad black border, fastened
with fibula on r. shoulder, cndromides laced up, staff in r. hand, 1. hand extended
to the youth. The ground-line is indicated by white dots. Above on the 1. is
Pan advancing, beardless, with white chlamys with purple border on 1. arm, and
goat's legs, holding out a syrinx in r. hand. Facing him is Hermes seated to 1.,
looking round, beardless, with bordered drapery under him, winged endromides,
white petasos, and caduceus in 1. hand ; with r. he caresses a white dog with
purple collar which has leaped upon him. On the other side of the tree is Eros
to r., facing Aphrodite, who is seated, with hair gathered under a cap open at
the back, and falling in ringlets, long chiton and himation over lower limbs,
earrings, necklace, and bracelets ; her 1. arm rests on a pillow and holds a large
fan, in r. she holds a swan with wings addorsed. Eros is of the androgynous
Apulian type, with hair gathered up in a knot, bracelets, and anklets.

[These four, Pan, Hermes, Eros, and Aphrodite, answer to the four Cabeiric deities (/. //.
S., /. c.) ; according to Bloch, the youth is a poet fetching the lyre of Orpheus from Hades.]

(b) Dionysiac group: In the centre is Dionysos seated to 1. with drapery
beneath him, looking to r. ; he is beardless, with fillet, and thyrsos in 1. hand ; in