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14 EARLY PROTOCORINTHIAN VASE-PAINTING
Syracuse: Mon. Ant. xxv, 491 fig. 83; hound pulling down boar. Fine, and
very archaic both in drawing and in composition. Contemporary with
the kotyle pi. 5.
[A fourth very large fragment from Gela (Mon. Ant. xvii, 262 fig. 199,
may belong here or to the next phase.]
Rome : Capitoline Museum, from the Esquiline (Bull. Comm. 1897, 279
fig. 12; Mon. Ant. 1907, pi. 15,9). For the style compare the Vatican
lid, mentioned above; hooked spirals and an elaborate dot-rosette in the
field. The handle pattern recurs on the handle of a Protocorinthian
vase of the same shape at Corinth: cf. also A.H. ii, pi. 59, 5.
Pyxides:
Brussels: detail, fig. 7 (C.V.A. iii c, pi. 3, 1).
Corinth: fragment with lion. No red used. These two may perhaps belong
to the third period, but on the whole I think
this is unlikely.
Syracuse: from Syracuse (Mon. Ant. xxv, 550
fig. 137 centre bottom); cf. ibid. 545 fig.
132.
Plate:
Fig. 7. From a Protocorinthian Athens: from the Argive Heraeum,pi. 4,7 (A.H.
ii, pi. 59, 36). No red used.
pyxis.
Various fragments:
Aegina: F 25, 54, 56.
Syracuse: from Syracuse (Mon. Ant. xxv, 550 fig. 137 right).
A remarkable little fragment from the Argive Heraeum (A.H. ii, pi. 64) is
illustrated in pi. 4, 5 from a new photograph. The outline drawing of the
lions' heads and manes is exceptional, and most of the outlines are red,
but the clay makes it quite certain that the fragment is Protocorinthian.1
The vases just enumerated have a distinct historical importance, quite
apart from the fact that they add greatly to our knowledge of the best period
of Protocorinthian vase-painting.2 If we ignore them, and regard the Proto-
corinthian industry at this stage as primarily occupied with the production of
miniature aryballoi, we do not merely get a false impression of the scope
of the Protocorinthian school: we cannot grasp the continuous process of
development from this phase to the later Protocorinthian period, when large
vases were also produced in numbers, and thence to the Transitional and
early Corinthian periods. It is sometimes harder to assign a date to large
1 For the use of outline in developed Protocorin- 2 The only later vase which surpasses the best of
thiancf. the aryballos fragment from the Heraeum, the second archaic style is the Chigi oinochoe
hg- 5! cf- also the outlined heads on Johansen pis. no. 39.
26, 5; 27, i.
Syracuse: Mon. Ant. xxv, 491 fig. 83; hound pulling down boar. Fine, and
very archaic both in drawing and in composition. Contemporary with
the kotyle pi. 5.
[A fourth very large fragment from Gela (Mon. Ant. xvii, 262 fig. 199,
may belong here or to the next phase.]
Rome : Capitoline Museum, from the Esquiline (Bull. Comm. 1897, 279
fig. 12; Mon. Ant. 1907, pi. 15,9). For the style compare the Vatican
lid, mentioned above; hooked spirals and an elaborate dot-rosette in the
field. The handle pattern recurs on the handle of a Protocorinthian
vase of the same shape at Corinth: cf. also A.H. ii, pi. 59, 5.
Pyxides:
Brussels: detail, fig. 7 (C.V.A. iii c, pi. 3, 1).
Corinth: fragment with lion. No red used. These two may perhaps belong
to the third period, but on the whole I think
this is unlikely.
Syracuse: from Syracuse (Mon. Ant. xxv, 550
fig. 137 centre bottom); cf. ibid. 545 fig.
132.
Plate:
Fig. 7. From a Protocorinthian Athens: from the Argive Heraeum,pi. 4,7 (A.H.
ii, pi. 59, 36). No red used.
pyxis.
Various fragments:
Aegina: F 25, 54, 56.
Syracuse: from Syracuse (Mon. Ant. xxv, 550 fig. 137 right).
A remarkable little fragment from the Argive Heraeum (A.H. ii, pi. 64) is
illustrated in pi. 4, 5 from a new photograph. The outline drawing of the
lions' heads and manes is exceptional, and most of the outlines are red,
but the clay makes it quite certain that the fragment is Protocorinthian.1
The vases just enumerated have a distinct historical importance, quite
apart from the fact that they add greatly to our knowledge of the best period
of Protocorinthian vase-painting.2 If we ignore them, and regard the Proto-
corinthian industry at this stage as primarily occupied with the production of
miniature aryballoi, we do not merely get a false impression of the scope
of the Protocorinthian school: we cannot grasp the continuous process of
development from this phase to the later Protocorinthian period, when large
vases were also produced in numbers, and thence to the Transitional and
early Corinthian periods. It is sometimes harder to assign a date to large
1 For the use of outline in developed Protocorin- 2 The only later vase which surpasses the best of
thiancf. the aryballos fragment from the Heraeum, the second archaic style is the Chigi oinochoe
hg- 5! cf- also the outlined heads on Johansen pis. no. 39.
26, 5; 27, i.