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CHAP. XXXVII.]
THE FRANCOIS VASE.
117
painter's names are on the principal band. The vase speaks for itself,
and says, tA3lQ>ftr\A3l*\\f\l~T I 4 > "Clitias drew me,"
and EPAOTIMOfMEnOJEJEAf "Brgotimos made me." The
inscriptions run, some from right to left, but most from left to right,
generally according to the direction of the figures to which they are
attached.
On one handle of the amphora, is a winged Diana grasping two
panthers by the neck, and on the other the same figure holding a
panther and a stag.1 And beneath these groups is Aias (Ajax)
bearing the dead body of Akileus. Within each handle is a Fury,
with open mouth, gnashing teeth, wings spread, and in the act of
running—the same figure that occurs so often on Etruscan vases and
bronzes. An illustration of it has been given in the eyed cylix from
Vulei, at page 397 of Vol. I. ; and a further specimen is presented in
the subjoined caniharus, or goblet.
1 The winged Artemis on the Chest of
Cypselus held in this way a lion in one
hand, and a panther in the other. Pausan.
V. 19. Such figures seem to have their
type in the Babylonian cylinders, where
they are often represented, throttling lions
CANTHARUS, WITH A FURY AND TWO FAUNS
THE FRANCOIS VASE.
117
painter's names are on the principal band. The vase speaks for itself,
and says, tA3lQ>ftr\A3l*\\f\l~T I 4 > "Clitias drew me,"
and EPAOTIMOfMEnOJEJEAf "Brgotimos made me." The
inscriptions run, some from right to left, but most from left to right,
generally according to the direction of the figures to which they are
attached.
On one handle of the amphora, is a winged Diana grasping two
panthers by the neck, and on the other the same figure holding a
panther and a stag.1 And beneath these groups is Aias (Ajax)
bearing the dead body of Akileus. Within each handle is a Fury,
with open mouth, gnashing teeth, wings spread, and in the act of
running—the same figure that occurs so often on Etruscan vases and
bronzes. An illustration of it has been given in the eyed cylix from
Vulei, at page 397 of Vol. I. ; and a further specimen is presented in
the subjoined caniharus, or goblet.
1 The winged Artemis on the Chest of
Cypselus held in this way a lion in one
hand, and a panther in the other. Pausan.
V. 19. Such figures seem to have their
type in the Babylonian cylinders, where
they are often represented, throttling lions
CANTHARUS, WITH A FURY AND TWO FAUNS