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chap, lix.] MUSEO GREGORIANO.—PAINTED VASES. 501
on the Delphic tripod, which is speeding its winged course
over the waves. Dolphins and other fish are gambolling
in the water, attracted to the surface by the music of the
god's lyre. It is one of the most beautiful, and best pre-
served vases yet discovered at Vulci. Third style.3
A calpis. Theseus, having pierced the wild sow of
Crommyon with his spear, and wounded her with a stone,
has brought her to bay, and awaits her attack, sword in
hand, with his chlamys wrapt round his left arm; nearly
as the Spanish matador encounters the bull in the arena.
Third style.—Vulci.4
Stamnos. On the body of the vase is a band of figures
representing the palsestric games—wrestling, boxing, and
chariot-racing. In an upper band is a banquet of four
couples of both sexes, very like the feasting-scenes in the
tombs of Tarquinii, but in a more archaic style. Second
style.—Vulci.
A hydria. Nymphs at a Doric fountain; some going,
others returning. Their pots, true hydriee in form, just
like the vase itself, are laid on their heads in different
positions, according as they are full or empty ; as may be
observed among the peasant-girls of Italy at the present
day. In an upper band is a spirited combat, thought to
represent iEneas assisting Hector against Ajax. In a
lower band, boys on horseback are hunting stags. Second
style.—Vulci.5
Hydria, with a race of women, a very curious scene.
Second style.
On the shelf near the window is a remarkable vase. It
is that sort of amphora, contracting towards the neck,
commonly called a pelice. Two men are sitting under an
3 Micali, Ant. Pop. Ital. III. p. 147, 4 Mus. Gregor. II. tav. XII. 1.
tav. XCIV. Mon. Ined. Inst. I. tav. 5 Mus. Gregor. II. tav. IX. 2.
XLVI. Mus. Gregor. II. tav. XV. 1.
on the Delphic tripod, which is speeding its winged course
over the waves. Dolphins and other fish are gambolling
in the water, attracted to the surface by the music of the
god's lyre. It is one of the most beautiful, and best pre-
served vases yet discovered at Vulci. Third style.3
A calpis. Theseus, having pierced the wild sow of
Crommyon with his spear, and wounded her with a stone,
has brought her to bay, and awaits her attack, sword in
hand, with his chlamys wrapt round his left arm; nearly
as the Spanish matador encounters the bull in the arena.
Third style.—Vulci.4
Stamnos. On the body of the vase is a band of figures
representing the palsestric games—wrestling, boxing, and
chariot-racing. In an upper band is a banquet of four
couples of both sexes, very like the feasting-scenes in the
tombs of Tarquinii, but in a more archaic style. Second
style.—Vulci.
A hydria. Nymphs at a Doric fountain; some going,
others returning. Their pots, true hydriee in form, just
like the vase itself, are laid on their heads in different
positions, according as they are full or empty ; as may be
observed among the peasant-girls of Italy at the present
day. In an upper band is a spirited combat, thought to
represent iEneas assisting Hector against Ajax. In a
lower band, boys on horseback are hunting stags. Second
style.—Vulci.5
Hydria, with a race of women, a very curious scene.
Second style.
On the shelf near the window is a remarkable vase. It
is that sort of amphora, contracting towards the neck,
commonly called a pelice. Two men are sitting under an
3 Micali, Ant. Pop. Ital. III. p. 147, 4 Mus. Gregor. II. tav. XII. 1.
tav. XCIV. Mon. Ined. Inst. I. tav. 5 Mus. Gregor. II. tav. IX. 2.
XLVI. Mus. Gregor. II. tav. XV. 1.