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Small Objects from the Croesus Temple. 319
brown (thinned black) lines of extreme delicacy, with a wash of
purple for detail : the bird appears to have been indicated in a raised
slip, or "barbotine," which has probably served as the medium for
gilding.
The whole style so closely resembles that of the cups signed by Sotades
{Brit. Mus. Cat. of Vases, D. 6 foil.) that we are probably justified in regarding
this vase as by the same artist.
The subject is apparently a visit to the Delphic shrine. On the 1. is the
omphalos, indicated by a hemispherical space covered by the agrenon, on which
the two eagles have been seated confronted ; the eagle on the 1. is entirely
wanting ; of the other, the hinder half, with the legs, is preserved. On the r.
is the lower half of a figure wearing a long chiton and a purple himation, which
stands facing the omphalos, with the r. foot slightly advanced. Along the
lower edge of the chiton is a row of yellow dots in alternate folds, perhaps
intended to suggest shadow. Possibly the composition was similar to that of
the Sparta relief published by Wolters (At/t. Mitth. xii. pi. 12), and the
omphalos was flanked on either side by figures of Apollo and Artemis.1
This fragment of fine Attic ware is interesting to meet with here, because
it resembles both in technique and style the work of Sotades ; and we know
already, from the discovery of a vase by this artist in the excavations of
M. de Morgan at Susa2, that the works of this artist were probably popular
elsewhere in Asia. (Found at the E. end, probably in inter-pier filling, but
exact spot not noticed at the time.)
(ii) Pawn or draughtsman, red and black. H. "028 D. ; (at foot) "028.
(iii) " Loom-weights" \ a large number, circular and oval, with hole or
holes for suspension. Seven specimens are impressed on edges or sides with
seal-stamps, all very indistinct (cp. llios Schliem., p. 619. Nos. 1466-72) ; but
the following types can be made out:—
Rhyton with horse or goat-head finial (or forepart of Pegasus ?).
Draped Aphrodite seated to r., with Eros flying towards her.
Bearded Satyr seated to r., with head to 1. (impression of a ring-bezel).
Cone on stem (or phallus ?).
Symbol resembling A
Standing figure to 1., dipping hands in a basin on pedestal.
Object, resembling curved sword-hilt or strigil.
One specimen, of pyramidal plummet-shape, has red slip, and is painted on
the sides with white flowers or stars of seven dots, between lines.
1 See Karo in Daremberg, Diet. s.v. omphalos.
■ Tottier in Comptes RtnJus dt T'Acad., 1903, p. 216.
brown (thinned black) lines of extreme delicacy, with a wash of
purple for detail : the bird appears to have been indicated in a raised
slip, or "barbotine," which has probably served as the medium for
gilding.
The whole style so closely resembles that of the cups signed by Sotades
{Brit. Mus. Cat. of Vases, D. 6 foil.) that we are probably justified in regarding
this vase as by the same artist.
The subject is apparently a visit to the Delphic shrine. On the 1. is the
omphalos, indicated by a hemispherical space covered by the agrenon, on which
the two eagles have been seated confronted ; the eagle on the 1. is entirely
wanting ; of the other, the hinder half, with the legs, is preserved. On the r.
is the lower half of a figure wearing a long chiton and a purple himation, which
stands facing the omphalos, with the r. foot slightly advanced. Along the
lower edge of the chiton is a row of yellow dots in alternate folds, perhaps
intended to suggest shadow. Possibly the composition was similar to that of
the Sparta relief published by Wolters (At/t. Mitth. xii. pi. 12), and the
omphalos was flanked on either side by figures of Apollo and Artemis.1
This fragment of fine Attic ware is interesting to meet with here, because
it resembles both in technique and style the work of Sotades ; and we know
already, from the discovery of a vase by this artist in the excavations of
M. de Morgan at Susa2, that the works of this artist were probably popular
elsewhere in Asia. (Found at the E. end, probably in inter-pier filling, but
exact spot not noticed at the time.)
(ii) Pawn or draughtsman, red and black. H. "028 D. ; (at foot) "028.
(iii) " Loom-weights" \ a large number, circular and oval, with hole or
holes for suspension. Seven specimens are impressed on edges or sides with
seal-stamps, all very indistinct (cp. llios Schliem., p. 619. Nos. 1466-72) ; but
the following types can be made out:—
Rhyton with horse or goat-head finial (or forepart of Pegasus ?).
Draped Aphrodite seated to r., with Eros flying towards her.
Bearded Satyr seated to r., with head to 1. (impression of a ring-bezel).
Cone on stem (or phallus ?).
Symbol resembling A
Standing figure to 1., dipping hands in a basin on pedestal.
Object, resembling curved sword-hilt or strigil.
One specimen, of pyramidal plummet-shape, has red slip, and is painted on
the sides with white flowers or stars of seven dots, between lines.
1 See Karo in Daremberg, Diet. s.v. omphalos.
■ Tottier in Comptes RtnJus dt T'Acad., 1903, p. 216.