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80 NATURAL HISTORY
The series goes back, and far back, into the Protocorinthian period; there
are four Protocorinthian examples, all of them gorgoneia:
(i) Plastic vase in the shape of a lion-protome (fig. 71); a gorgoneion
painted on the back. Fig. 23 A (Johansen pi. 41, 5).
d e
Fig. 23. a, from the plastic vase fig. 71; b, from the aryballos pi. i, 7; c, from no. 39; d, metope from
Thermon restored: see notes on illustrations ; e, clay relief from Syracuse: see notes on illustrations.
(2) Macmillan aryballos (pi. 1,7), handle ornament. Fig. 23 b (Johansen
Pl-3i)-
(3) Aryballos from Gela, shield device (Johansen pi. 34, 2).
(4) Chigi oinochoe, shield device. Fig. 23 c (Johansen pi. 39).
The first was found with ovoid aryballoi of a rather early type,1 and
is certainly earlier than the middle of the seventh century; the modelling of
the lion's head is distinctly more archaic than that of the Macmillan vase
1 N.S. 1893, 470.
The series goes back, and far back, into the Protocorinthian period; there
are four Protocorinthian examples, all of them gorgoneia:
(i) Plastic vase in the shape of a lion-protome (fig. 71); a gorgoneion
painted on the back. Fig. 23 A (Johansen pi. 41, 5).
d e
Fig. 23. a, from the plastic vase fig. 71; b, from the aryballos pi. i, 7; c, from no. 39; d, metope from
Thermon restored: see notes on illustrations ; e, clay relief from Syracuse: see notes on illustrations.
(2) Macmillan aryballos (pi. 1,7), handle ornament. Fig. 23 b (Johansen
Pl-3i)-
(3) Aryballos from Gela, shield device (Johansen pi. 34, 2).
(4) Chigi oinochoe, shield device. Fig. 23 c (Johansen pi. 39).
The first was found with ovoid aryballoi of a rather early type,1 and
is certainly earlier than the middle of the seventh century; the modelling of
the lion's head is distinctly more archaic than that of the Macmillan vase
1 N.S. 1893, 470.