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Goat instead of Bull

fifth-century vases on which goat-figures occur1. They are seen

1 (i) Red-figured guttus from Nola (J. de Witte Description des antiquitis et objets
dart qui composenl le cabinet de feti M. le chevalier E. Durand Paris 1836 no. 142)
= goat-headed figure skipping on all fours.

"(2) Red-figured guttus from Nola (J. J. Dubois Description des antiques faisant
partie des collections de M. le comte de Pourtales-Gorgier Paris 1841 no. 384, Catalogue
des objets d'art...qui composent la collection de feu M. le comte de Pourtales-Gorgier Paris
1865 no. 399) = goat-headed figure skipping on all fours.

(3) Late black-figured oinochoe with white ground at Munich (Jahn Vasensamml.
Miinchen p. 214 no. 682 wrongly described) = goat with bearded human head skipping
on all fours: with him dances a bearded Silenos.

(4) Red-figured skyphos of c. 440 B.C. from Certosa at Bologna (Pellegrini Cat. vas.
gr. dipint. Bologna p. 216 no. 491, E. Brizio in the Bull. d. Inst. 1872 p. 112 no. 86,

H. Heydemann Winckelmannsfest-Progr. Halle 1879 p. 63 no. 150, P. Hartwig in the
Rom. Mitth. 1897 xii. 92 f. fig. 2)=obv. human figure with goat's head, tail, and legs
dancing with a goat that stands on its hind legs ; rev. goat with human arms and hands
skipping on all fours to compete with an actual goat. The design has been much restored.

• (5) Fragment of a red-figured skyphos of c. 450 B.C. now in the possession of
F. Hauser at Stuttgart (P. Hartwig in the Rom. Mitth. 1897 xii. 91 fig. 1) —human
figure with goat's head and tail dancing.

(6) Red-figured askSs of c. 450 B.C. in the British Museum {Brit. Mus. Cat. leases
iii. 358 no. E 735) = obv. human .figure with goat's horns and tail misusing a dog; rev.
Silenos reclining.

(7) Red-figured jug of c. 450 B.C. now in the possession of Commendatore Galeozzo
at Santa Maria di Capua (P. Hartwig in the Rom. Mitth. 1897 xii. 92) = human figure
with goat's feet and beast's ears striding forwards, his hands crossed at his back ; round
his head is twisted a curious skin, and behind him is a basket.

(8) Red-figured krater of c. 440 B.C. in the Albertinum at Dresden (P. Herrmann in
the Jahrb. d. kais. deutsch. arch. Inst. 1892 vii Arch. Anz. p. 166 f., P. Hartwig in the
Rom. Mitth. 1897 xii. 92, Muller—Wieseler—Wernicke Ant. Denkin. ii. 2. 226 f. pi. 19,

I, Harrison Proleg. Gk. Rel? p. 277 f. fig. 67) = obv. three human figures ^$tM05,
PANAR ?, and . ...0$) w^tn goat's horns, tail, and feet capering round Hermes
(fEp/xE5-), who holds a forked stick, and Pherephatta (cpePE(£ ATT A), who

rises from a grotto; rev. three draped figures.

(9) Red-figured skyphos of c. 440 B.C. in the Albertinum at Dresden (P. Hartwig
in the Rom. Mitth. 1897 xii. 93 n. 1, K. Wernicke in Hermes 1897 xxxii. 298) = similar
goat-figure on either side of the vase, one with equine tail.

(10) Red-figured skyphos of c. 450 B.C. from Vico Equense in the Bourguignon
collection at Naples (W. Frohner in the Ann. d. Inst. 1884 lvi. 2056°. pi. M, Reinach
Re'p. Vases i. 348, if., C. Robert Archaeologische Maerchen aus alter und neuer Zeit Berlin
1886 p. 194 f. fig., P. Hartwig in the Rom. Mitth. 1897 xii. 91 f.) = obv. two human
figures with goat's head and tail capering, while between them a goddess rises from the
ground; rev. two Silenoi with horse's ears and tail dancing on either side of a Maenad.

(11) Red-figured krater of c. 450 B.C. from Falerii, now at Berlin (L. Bloch in
Roscher Lex. Myth. ii. 1378, P. Hartwig in the Ath. Mitth. 1896 xxi. 384 n. 2 and
in the Rom. Mitth. 1897 xii. 89ft0. pi. 4—5) = obv. (a) a goddess with diadem and
himdtion rising from the ground, surrounded by four dancing figures with the horns,
ears, and tails of goats, (b) a lion and a bull; rev. [a) Hermes erect, caduceus in hand
surrounded by four dancing goat-figures of the same sort.

(12) Red-figured krater of c. 450 B.C. from Altemura in the British Museum
(pi. xxxviii, Brit. Mus. Cat. Vases iii. 285 f. no. E 467, A. H. Smith in the fourn.
Hell. Stud. 1890 xi. 2786". pis. 11 f., P. Hartwig in the Rom. Mitth. 1897 xii. 92) = obv.