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GREEK AND ETRUSCAN VASES
525. 94.16. Bowl. H. 0.023 m.; D. 0.037 m.
Clay buff, remains of red to black slip. Bowl, sides concave below, vertical
above, small flat bottom; two loop handles attached against vertical part of
walls. Spiral grooves on the flat bottom.
Plate LI.
526. 94.27. Jug. H. (without handle) 0.03 m.; D. 0.034 m.
Clay buff, varying toward black. Rounded body with flaring lip; small
horizontal handles at sides and vertical handle behind.
Plate LI.
527. 94.15. Lekythos. H. 0.05 m.; D. 0.048 m.
Clay buff. Low body rounding out to a flat bottom, cone-shaped neck,
flaring lip, strap handle.
Plate LI.
C. ORIENTALIZING VASES FROM BOEOTIA
1. Early Boeotian pithoi with relief decoration
528. 99.505. Amphora. H. 1.57 m.; D. 0.81 m.
Henry L. Pierce Fund; purchased, 1899.
Clay dull red, with fine bits of mica; the surface much corroded in places;
considerably restored. High ovoid body narrowing to a very small bottom;
large neck spreading out to a flat lip, and forming a continuous curve with the
body; two wide strap handles close to the neck, with pierced and decorated
screen connecting them with the neck on their front side. Decoration freely
modelled in low relief, details incised with a pointed tool, and small ornaments
impressed on garments, etc., with a die. The back side of the vase is undecorated.
On the upper part of the body, four oxen walking to right; below four relief lines
in the main zone, a warrior wearing helmet and shield and carrying a goad (?) is
driving three oxen to right; in front of them is a kneeling helmeted warrior to
right carrying a spear in each hand (?) and a Boeotian shield; facing him ap-
proach four helmeted warriors to left, each carrying a shield and a spear; small
impressed ornaments occur on the helmet crests and on the edges of the shields;
below, a triple wavy line with buds on long tendrils ending in a serpent’s head
at the left, between groups of horizontal relief lines; lower half of the body
undecorated. On the lower part of the neck, a large panel enclosed by relief lines;
inside it at the left, a complicated scroll pattern with angle palmettes and sepa-
rated from this ornament by perpendicular lines are two men, the left one grasp-
ing the other by the wrist and apparently about to stab him with a sword; be-
tween them are traces of a large tripod; at the right, a woman to left with fore-
arms raised and in her right hand an aryballos (?). On the upper part of the neck
remains of a row of four cocks (?) to right.
On the edge of the handles, a wavy relief line ending below in a small pair of
opposed scrolls, and above in a large pair of similar scrolls with angle palmettes
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525. 94.16. Bowl. H. 0.023 m.; D. 0.037 m.
Clay buff, remains of red to black slip. Bowl, sides concave below, vertical
above, small flat bottom; two loop handles attached against vertical part of
walls. Spiral grooves on the flat bottom.
Plate LI.
526. 94.27. Jug. H. (without handle) 0.03 m.; D. 0.034 m.
Clay buff, varying toward black. Rounded body with flaring lip; small
horizontal handles at sides and vertical handle behind.
Plate LI.
527. 94.15. Lekythos. H. 0.05 m.; D. 0.048 m.
Clay buff. Low body rounding out to a flat bottom, cone-shaped neck,
flaring lip, strap handle.
Plate LI.
C. ORIENTALIZING VASES FROM BOEOTIA
1. Early Boeotian pithoi with relief decoration
528. 99.505. Amphora. H. 1.57 m.; D. 0.81 m.
Henry L. Pierce Fund; purchased, 1899.
Clay dull red, with fine bits of mica; the surface much corroded in places;
considerably restored. High ovoid body narrowing to a very small bottom;
large neck spreading out to a flat lip, and forming a continuous curve with the
body; two wide strap handles close to the neck, with pierced and decorated
screen connecting them with the neck on their front side. Decoration freely
modelled in low relief, details incised with a pointed tool, and small ornaments
impressed on garments, etc., with a die. The back side of the vase is undecorated.
On the upper part of the body, four oxen walking to right; below four relief lines
in the main zone, a warrior wearing helmet and shield and carrying a goad (?) is
driving three oxen to right; in front of them is a kneeling helmeted warrior to
right carrying a spear in each hand (?) and a Boeotian shield; facing him ap-
proach four helmeted warriors to left, each carrying a shield and a spear; small
impressed ornaments occur on the helmet crests and on the edges of the shields;
below, a triple wavy line with buds on long tendrils ending in a serpent’s head
at the left, between groups of horizontal relief lines; lower half of the body
undecorated. On the lower part of the neck, a large panel enclosed by relief lines;
inside it at the left, a complicated scroll pattern with angle palmettes and sepa-
rated from this ornament by perpendicular lines are two men, the left one grasp-
ing the other by the wrist and apparently about to stab him with a sword; be-
tween them are traces of a large tripod; at the right, a woman to left with fore-
arms raised and in her right hand an aryballos (?). On the upper part of the neck
remains of a row of four cocks (?) to right.
On the edge of the handles, a wavy relief line ending below in a small pair of
opposed scrolls, and above in a large pair of similar scrolls with angle palmettes
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