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figures o-yf"). A large /crater of Italian marble with grey stripes, formerly in
the Cook collection at Richmond, has on one side a snake-entwined tripod, from
which flames are rising, flanked by a pair of Nikai filling phidlai from their
raised oinochdai, on the other side an exact repetition of the central and left-
hand dancers on the Villa AJbani base described above—a repetition which
includes both the altar with fruit and the reed-plant springing from the ground.

Fig. 817.

Under each handle are two thyrsoi laid crosswise. The handles themselves end
in large ivy-leaves (A. Michaelis Ancient Marbles in Great Britain trans.
C. A. M. Fennell Cambridge 1882 p. 638 no. 66, F. Hauser op. tit. p. 96 no. 18,
Mrs S. A. Strong in the Journ. Hell. Stud. 1908 xxviii. 24 f. no. 33 pi. 17 -
Reinach Rep. Reliefs ii. 531 no. 3 f. Height o-8o'"; diameter c. o-8o,n. The
surface has been worked over, but the authenticity of the vase is above
suspicion). A marble relief in the Villa Albani figures a couple of kalathiskos-
dancers facing each other in front of an edifice with two ranges of pilasters
(G. Zoega Li bassirilievi antichi di Roma Roma 1808 i. 111 — 118 pi. 21 = Reinach
C. ill. 64