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256 CATALOGUE OF VASES.

G 112. FRAGMENT. Diam. ij in. Naucratis, 1886. Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund.

In a medallion with border of egg-moulding : Gorgoncion.

G 113. FRAGMENT. Diam. i| in. From Corfu. Woodhouse Coll., 1868.

In a medallion, an ivy-leaf.

G 114. FRAGMENT. Old No. C. 105. Diam. i\ in. Cyrenaica. Werry, 1856. Perhaps from

the top of an askos.

In a medallion, head of Satyr to 1., with rough hair and beard and pointed
ears.

G 115. FRAGMENT. Diam. 2| in. From the cover of a vase.

Mask of Seilenos, with shaggy hair and beard.

G 116. FRAGMENT. Diam. if in. Formerly in the vase B 60 (see Vol. II. p. 69).

Head of youthful Satyr or Dionysos in relief, with flowing hair.

G 117. OSCILLUM(?) Ht. 2iin. Towneley Coll.

Dionysos with hair in a corymbos.

G 118-150. CALENIAN PHIALAE.

G 118. PHIALE MESOMPHALOS. Old No. 1808. Ht. l| in. Diam. 8£ in. 1839. Cam-

panari Coll. Class. Rev. v. (1S91), p. 342; Murray, Handbook of Gk. Archaeology, p. 108;
Knapp, Nike in der Vasenmalcrci, p. 36 ; Birch, Ancient Pottery? p. 168 ; Proc. Soc. Antiqs.
xv. (1894-5), p. 305. Shape as Fig. 20. Inner border of astragali ; outer of ivy-leaves.

Round the centre is a frieze in relief with four quadrigae, each driven at full
speed to 1. by a Nik6, with a deity as parabates ; each is followed by an Eros
hovering in the air, holding out a taenia to crown the deity. In the first quadriga
is Athen^, with crested helmet, long girt chiton, and shield on which is an aegis ;
under the horses' fore feet, a serpent; next, Heracles, bearded, with club in I.
hand and lion's skin round lower limbs ; below the horses, a fawn springing to I.
In the third is Ares, with helmet, cuirass, and shield with uncertain device in
relief; below the horses, a boar ; lastly, Dionysos, with long chiton, himation,
panther's skin, and thyrsos in I. hand ; below the horses, a hind ; on the body
of his chariot is a figure in relief. The Nikae all have caps and long girt chitons ;
the horses have collars and belly-bands.

[Compare Gas. Arch. 1879, P- 4Jj Bull, dell' Inst. 1867, p. 130, note, and Rayet and Col-
lignon, Hist. Cdr. Grecquc, p. 347 ; also Cat. Pourtales, 202, and two silver phialae from Eze,
France, in Brit. Mus.]
 
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