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CALENIAN PHIALAE. 257

G 119. PHIALE MESOMPHALOS. Old No. 1809. Ht. if in. Diam. 7-£ in. 1839. Cam-

panari Coll. References as to last vase.

Design from same mould as last, but less sharply executed.

G 120. PHIALE. Ht. ij-in. Diam. 4I in. Sardinia, 1857. Rim broken. Very flat bowl.

In the centre, mask of Dionysos in relief, beardless. Round it, an olive-
wreath.

G 121. PHIALE. Ht. 2j; in. Diam. 4J- in. From Ruvo. Temple Coll., 1856. Evans, Syra-

cusau Medallions, in Numismatic Chronicle, 3rd Ser. Vol. 11 (1891), p. 319 ; T. Rcinach in Rev.
Arch. N. S. xxiv. (1894), p. 173.

In the centre, the impression of a Syracusan tetradrachm, with head of
Arethusa to 1., wreathed, and fishes in the field ; round it, stamped palmettes
and feathered lines, and below the neck, the inscription EVAI . . . , EucuWto?.

G 122. PHIALE. Ht. i-J in. Diam. 4J in. Evans, Syracusan Medallions, p. 319 ; Rev. Arch.

N. S. xxiv. (1894), p. 173. Handles lost; repaired.

As the last vase; the palmettes alternate with concentric circles ; behind
the head, a scallop-shell.

G 123. FRAGMENT forming foot of bowl (?). Diam. 1^ in. Towncley Coll. Design apparently

copied from a coin.

Heracles looking to 1., holding out a cantharos in r. hand, 1. resting on club.
On the 1. is an eight-point star. Inscribed : IAEPAK . . ., perhaps meant for
'Hpa/c[Xeia, i.e. Heraclea in Lucania. The coin-type is unknown.

G 124. FRAGMENT. Length 2| in. From Corfu. Woodhouse Coll., 1868.

In a medallion, head of Athene to 1., with short hair and helmet without
ridge.

G 125. FRAGMENT. Diam. 2= in. Castellani, 1873. Benndorf, Gr. u. Sic. Vasenb. pi. 58, 1,

p. 114.

In a medallion, the wolf suckling Romulus and Remus: The wolf stands
to 1. with head turned round to r.; the two infants are seated beneath, facing
each other. In the background is a tree (the ficus ruminalis), in the branches of
which are perched two birds (the picas and parra sent by Mars and Rhea).

[Cf. St. Petersburg Cat. 866; also the denarius of Sex. Pompeius Faustulus (B.C. 130),
a bronze sistrum, and two bronze groups in Brit. Mus. ; for the subject, Ann. dell' lust. 1879,
p. 38 ff., and Baumeister, p. 1536.]

G 126. FRAGMENT. Length 2* in. Castellani, 1873. Benndorf, Gr. u. Sic. Vasenb. pi. 57,

5, p. 112.

Achilles (?) seated to 1., beardless, with drapery over lower limbs ; before
him has apparently been a figure of Thetis holding out a shield to him, but only
the shield now remains.

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