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FIRST VASE ROOM.
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Of these the most interesting are No. 165 in Case 38,
an amphora, on which the subject represented is Thetis and
her attendant Nereids bringing to Achilles the armour made
for him by Hephaestos;a lekythos, No. 106 in Case 31,
representing the Theoxenia offered to the Dioskuri after an
Agonistic Victory (see Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit. ix. p. 434); and
No. 167, in Case 35, a hydria, on which is represented a
seated female figure, waited on at her toilet by four female
attendants.
In Table Case I is a kylix, No. 168, on which the figure
of Aphrodite riding on a swan is painted in several colours,
on a white ground. The drawing and composition of this
group are most masterly, and, whether we rpgard the beauty
of the design, or the rarity of the mode of painting employed
in this cup. it may be considered one of the most precious
objects in the Collection, and worthy to take its place with
the finest known specimens of ancient Fictile Art from Vulci,
Nola, or Athens. The nude portions of the figure are drawn
in delicate black lines on the white background, the pephs
is a dark maroon colour, the chiton is white with a flowered
pattern, and with a border of the same colour as the
peplos. (Salzmann, Necropole de Camiros. pi. 60.)
On the top of Case L is a kantharos, No. 169, on the
obverse of which is represented the combat between Theseus
and Andromache ; on the reverse, a similar combat between
Phorbns and the Amazon Alexandra. (Salzmann, Necropole
de Camiros, pi. 58.)
SELECT RHYTONS.
On Table Case F are select specimens of the class of vase
commonly called rhyton, though this term seems to have
been originally applied only to those drinking cups which
tapered like a horn, and had a small aperture at the foot so
as to let the liquor flow through. We learn from Athenreus
that these cups were known by the names of the animals
which suggested their shapes. Thus a vase in the shape of
a gryphon's head was called gryps; for types formed by a
combination of more than one animal, compound names, such
as krio-kapros, trag-elaphos were employed. Another type of
drinking cup is fashioned in the form of a single or double
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Of these the most interesting are No. 165 in Case 38,
an amphora, on which the subject represented is Thetis and
her attendant Nereids bringing to Achilles the armour made
for him by Hephaestos;a lekythos, No. 106 in Case 31,
representing the Theoxenia offered to the Dioskuri after an
Agonistic Victory (see Trans. Roy. Soc. Lit. ix. p. 434); and
No. 167, in Case 35, a hydria, on which is represented a
seated female figure, waited on at her toilet by four female
attendants.
In Table Case I is a kylix, No. 168, on which the figure
of Aphrodite riding on a swan is painted in several colours,
on a white ground. The drawing and composition of this
group are most masterly, and, whether we rpgard the beauty
of the design, or the rarity of the mode of painting employed
in this cup. it may be considered one of the most precious
objects in the Collection, and worthy to take its place with
the finest known specimens of ancient Fictile Art from Vulci,
Nola, or Athens. The nude portions of the figure are drawn
in delicate black lines on the white background, the pephs
is a dark maroon colour, the chiton is white with a flowered
pattern, and with a border of the same colour as the
peplos. (Salzmann, Necropole de Camiros. pi. 60.)
On the top of Case L is a kantharos, No. 169, on the
obverse of which is represented the combat between Theseus
and Andromache ; on the reverse, a similar combat between
Phorbns and the Amazon Alexandra. (Salzmann, Necropole
de Camiros, pi. 58.)
SELECT RHYTONS.
On Table Case F are select specimens of the class of vase
commonly called rhyton, though this term seems to have
been originally applied only to those drinking cups which
tapered like a horn, and had a small aperture at the foot so
as to let the liquor flow through. We learn from Athenreus
that these cups were known by the names of the animals
which suggested their shapes. Thus a vase in the shape of
a gryphon's head was called gryps; for types formed by a
combination of more than one animal, compound names, such
as krio-kapros, trag-elaphos were employed. Another type of
drinking cup is fashioned in the form of a single or double