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chap, lix.] MUSEO GREGORIANO.—TERRA-COTTAS. 497
There are several small urns of the same material,
similar to those often described in Etruscan museums, and
with the usual subjects. The mutual slaughter of the
Theban Brothers. Cadmus or Jason slaying the teeth-
sprung warriors with the plough. Scylla, represented
according to the Greek, rather than Etruscan, idea—
having a double-tail terminating in dogs' heads. Trunks
and limbs of the human frame; some for containing the
ashes of the dead, others votive offerings,—antefiwm and
tiles—and heads, portraits of the deceased, showing abun-
dant variety of feature, expression, and fashion of head-
dress. Some have quite a modern air.
There are also certain reliefs in terra-cotta, which are
not Etruscan, but of much later times—representing the
deeds of Hercules, Mithras slaying the bull, Amazons feed-
ing or combating griffons.
First Vase-Room.
This room contains twenty-eight painted vases—mostly
small amphorce, in the Second or Archaic style, with black
figures on the ground of the clay.3
In the centre of the room, on a pedestal, stands a crater,
or mixing-vase, with particoloured figures on a very pale
ground, and in the most beautiful style of Greek art;
indeed it is one of the finest vases ever rescued from the
3 It may be well here to repeat the lecythus, prochus.
names of the principal sorts of ancient Vases for drinking — cantharus, cy-
vases, classifying them according to the athus, cylix, phiala, scyphos, holkion,
purposes they served :— ceras, rhyion.
Vases for holding wine or oil-am- There are manymore varieties, which
phm-a, pdice, stamms. need not be stated here- And the
Vases for water, always with three aJabastra' °r unguent-vases, I have not
handles—hydria, calpis thought it necessary to specify. The
Vases for mixing wine at the banquet foms of ^ have been shown in the
-crater, cdebe, oxybaphon. Introduction, to which I must also refer
Vases for pouring _ cmochoe, olpe, the reader for the ^rence * *W<*>-
VOL. II. ' K K
There are several small urns of the same material,
similar to those often described in Etruscan museums, and
with the usual subjects. The mutual slaughter of the
Theban Brothers. Cadmus or Jason slaying the teeth-
sprung warriors with the plough. Scylla, represented
according to the Greek, rather than Etruscan, idea—
having a double-tail terminating in dogs' heads. Trunks
and limbs of the human frame; some for containing the
ashes of the dead, others votive offerings,—antefiwm and
tiles—and heads, portraits of the deceased, showing abun-
dant variety of feature, expression, and fashion of head-
dress. Some have quite a modern air.
There are also certain reliefs in terra-cotta, which are
not Etruscan, but of much later times—representing the
deeds of Hercules, Mithras slaying the bull, Amazons feed-
ing or combating griffons.
First Vase-Room.
This room contains twenty-eight painted vases—mostly
small amphorce, in the Second or Archaic style, with black
figures on the ground of the clay.3
In the centre of the room, on a pedestal, stands a crater,
or mixing-vase, with particoloured figures on a very pale
ground, and in the most beautiful style of Greek art;
indeed it is one of the finest vases ever rescued from the
3 It may be well here to repeat the lecythus, prochus.
names of the principal sorts of ancient Vases for drinking — cantharus, cy-
vases, classifying them according to the athus, cylix, phiala, scyphos, holkion,
purposes they served :— ceras, rhyion.
Vases for holding wine or oil-am- There are manymore varieties, which
phm-a, pdice, stamms. need not be stated here- And the
Vases for water, always with three aJabastra' °r unguent-vases, I have not
handles—hydria, calpis thought it necessary to specify. The
Vases for mixing wine at the banquet foms of ^ have been shown in the
-crater, cdebe, oxybaphon. Introduction, to which I must also refer
Vases for pouring _ cmochoe, olpe, the reader for the ^rence * *W<*>-
VOL. II. ' K K