Walters, Henry Beauchamp; British Museum <London> [Hrsg.]: Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum (Band 1,2): Cypriote, Italian, and Etruscan pottery (London, 1912)

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IV. THE POTTERY OF THE
GRAECO-PHOENICIAN PERIOD (C 736-1018).

1. THE STYLE OF TAMASSOS (C 736-737).

Decoration in black on buff ground, with characteristic washes of light red ;
Mycenaean influence is hardly apparent, but these two vases must belong to the
very earliest time of the Graeco-Phoenician period, about the ninth century B.C.

736. STAMNOS. Form 90 (nearly). Ht. l8| in. Diam. 12J in. Found in 1885 at Frangissa Plate V-

(Tamassos)' ; acquired 1891. O.-Richter, Kypros, Bible, and Homer, pp. 36-38, 62, 63,
figs- 37> 38) 7l> 75, and pi. 137, 6; Revue Archeol., IX. 1887, p. 77, and X. 1887, p. 89
(= Reinach, Clironiques d'Orient, I. pp. 294, 360); Class, Review, V. p. 342; Bull, de Corr.
Hell., XXXI. p. 248, note ; Cyprus Mus. Cat., p. 12.

Short wide neck without rim ; flat vertical band-handles on neck, and
on the body each side, double handles formed by the horns of a moufflon's
head in high relief. Repaired from fragments ; foot restored ; nearly complete,
but part of design now obliterated (see Reinach, loc. cit., and O.-Richter, Kypros,
p. 38). Buff slip ; design in black, with light red washes. On rim, short strokes
at intervals ; round neck, bands inside and out; on upper handles, vertical
zigzag lines ; lower handles painted black, with broad stripes continued down the
sides of the vase, the moufflon's eyes and muzzle being also black. Round the
shoulder, narrow band of scale-pattern and another of hatched triangles between
black bands ; below, five rings. On the body, below the design, seven rings
between black bands.

On the body are two principal subjects : A. Hunting Scene : Two men
in a chariot drawn by one horse to r., the horse red with black outlines, the body
of the chariot black ; the wheels have eight spokes and in front hangs a horse's
tail (?). The men are bearded and nude, with caps on their heads ; their
bodies are coloured red with black outlines, the faces in outline only ; the front
one has a sword at his side, and his r. hand is raised brandishing a whip ; in
the 1. he holds some object, now lost; the other has a spear in r. hand and bow
in 1. Above is a bird to r., indicating the direction of the movement2 ; the
body is circular, painted red with black outlines, with crossbars on neck, wings,
and tail. On the r. is a beast fallen on knees to 1. with head raised ; the head
in outline, the body red with black outlines ; a man, as before, stands behind

1 In the same tomb were a jug of the same type as C 817 ff., and others with concentric circles.

2 See Rev. Arch., loc. cit., p. 80, and cf. ibid., VI. 1885, p. 361 ; Clermont-Ganneau, Imag. Phitt.
p. 40ft'. ; and many early B. F. vases, such as Brit. Mus. B 15.5.