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pressive fingers. Behind him, Apollon with kithdra and plektron.
On the right, Ares in full armour is accompanied by a hound1. On
the left are traces of Poseidon (?). Finally a few blanks are filled
by a couple of soul-birds and sundry meaningless inscriptions.
Another amphora, now in the Musee d'Art et d'Histoire at Geneva,
is included in the Genevan series of Giraudon's photographs2.
A third, here given (fig. 493)3, was found at Vulci and passed from

and

Fig. 494.

1 On the use of dogs in war see F. Orth in Pauly—Wissowa Rcal-Enc. viii. 2566 f.;
°n their relation to Ares, id. ib. viii. 2575 f. (cp. the same author's monograph Dcr

q'""' "" Altertum Schleusingen 1910). The subject had been already handled by

Keller Die an tike Tienvelt Leipzig 19091. I26ff., 141. *
,j, t Schneider Die Geburt der Athena Wien 1880 p. 14 no. 32 ('Genf: musee Fol.
,~,a'- n- 154)'), P. Milliet Vases antiques des collections it la ville de Geneve Paris 1892.

e« to A. Giraudon's plates.)
18 Micali Monumenti per servire alia storia degli antichi popoli italiani Firenze
Man '5' '* ^enormant—de Win* "'<>"■ >■ 197 ff- pL 59 ( = my fig. 493)1
^U er—Wieseler Denim, d. alt. K'unst ii. 164 pi. 21, 228, L. Urlichs Verzeichniss der
lt,kc'tsanuitlung dcr Universittit Wiirzburg Wurzburg 1872 iii. 44 f. no. 243.