Newton, Charles T. [Editor]: First vase room ((London), 1879 (7. Aufl.))

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FIliST TASE ItOOM.

of Phidias are more clearly marked than perhaps in any vase
in the Collection. On the obverse of this vase Dionysos is
represented receiving in his kaiitharos a libation from Ariadne,
here called Nymphaia ; on the reverse

standing face to face. The.-1-------:"~

remarkable for largeness of -

About this period several =~m ^^H^^

ire two female figures
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were meant to be considered
dent that the compositions v!
crowding the narrow space'
Among the finest specimen
mentioned No. 90m, having
other Hermes: No. 100 on!
which is a group representi
Muses Terpsichore and Md
101m: on the obverse of thj
for a sacrifice, probably on
victory. This vase bears the

Nos. I 03q and 103 on Tab
figure on the obverse repres
a lyre: while on the reveri
Bathyllos, the companion of 1
A flute-player standing on a j
the thymcle, or altar of a j
his mouth is the pft&rbeia, «
the power of blowing air fro
is the judge in the musical I
is engaged, from whose mout]
interpreted as the order for 1

Another form of amphon
period, is shown in the aecom
this class are nearly all place,
allowing greater lateral exte
the class previously describe

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