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FLORAL ORNAMENTS
iS3
making bronze aryballoi (ovoid shape) recently found at Aegina (A. Anz.
1925, 8-9); pyxis-fragment, fig. 30;x oinochoe, no. 34.
The idea was taken up again in the late Corinthian period. On several of
the oinochoai and hydriai of the second quarter of the sixth century, vases
which show strong metallic influence, we find palmettes either painted (fig.
61)2 or in relief (fig. 98), below the vertical handles.
Fig. 60. cf. no. 435 (note 5, p. 152).
Fig. 61. Cf. no. 1446.
B. Floral chains.
Chain of single lotus-flowers. This pattern was used in the Protocorinthian
period (cf. Johansen pi. 32) but seems to have gone out of fashion till the
second quarter of the sixth century, when we find it in the debased form
shown in fig. 62 F.3
Chain of double lotus-flowers. The ornament shown in fig. 62 A is taken
from the early Corinthian amphora no. 770. The massive form of the flowers
is typical of the early period. The nearest parallels I can find are the Melian
hydria (Delos x, pi. 7,15), which Dugas, no doubt rightly, takes to be under
Corinthian influence, and the Gamedes oinochoe (Hoppin B.F.V. 19).
Chain of lotuses and palmettes, alternately reversed. This ornament is
derived directly from the late Protocorinthian period, but differs in certain
details, and, as usual, in being rendered in the black-figure technique. The
earliest Corinthian form is that of the Eurytios crater, pi. 27, repeated in
fig.62B: thelotuses areof the compact, square form which we see in many other
early vases (Protocorinthian and early Corinthian, cf. figs. 52A, 55 A, &c), the
palmettes are small, and the connecting links are unusually elaborate, recalling
those of the Chigi vase. In all these respects the chain of the Eurytios crater
differs from those of middle and late Corinthian vases, and confirms the early
1 Here we have the same kind of loosely tectonic
relation which we see in the early Attic amphora,
Jacobsthal pi. 7. Other early examples are the
griffon jug, J.H.S. 1926 pi. 7, and the Italian
oinochoe from the Barberini tomb, Memoirs of the
American Academy at Rome v, pi. 6. The Proto-
attic amphora in New York which has been men-
tioned in this connexion is hardly a case in point, as
3575 x
the palmette is not exactly beneath the handle, and
on the other side there is no palmette at all.
2 Nos. 1444-7.
3 Nos. 1295, 1330, 1351-3; there are several other
amphoriskoi not mentioned individually in the cata-
logue ; cf. the Attic amphoriskos Athens 546, from
Megara.
iS3
making bronze aryballoi (ovoid shape) recently found at Aegina (A. Anz.
1925, 8-9); pyxis-fragment, fig. 30;x oinochoe, no. 34.
The idea was taken up again in the late Corinthian period. On several of
the oinochoai and hydriai of the second quarter of the sixth century, vases
which show strong metallic influence, we find palmettes either painted (fig.
61)2 or in relief (fig. 98), below the vertical handles.
Fig. 60. cf. no. 435 (note 5, p. 152).
Fig. 61. Cf. no. 1446.
B. Floral chains.
Chain of single lotus-flowers. This pattern was used in the Protocorinthian
period (cf. Johansen pi. 32) but seems to have gone out of fashion till the
second quarter of the sixth century, when we find it in the debased form
shown in fig. 62 F.3
Chain of double lotus-flowers. The ornament shown in fig. 62 A is taken
from the early Corinthian amphora no. 770. The massive form of the flowers
is typical of the early period. The nearest parallels I can find are the Melian
hydria (Delos x, pi. 7,15), which Dugas, no doubt rightly, takes to be under
Corinthian influence, and the Gamedes oinochoe (Hoppin B.F.V. 19).
Chain of lotuses and palmettes, alternately reversed. This ornament is
derived directly from the late Protocorinthian period, but differs in certain
details, and, as usual, in being rendered in the black-figure technique. The
earliest Corinthian form is that of the Eurytios crater, pi. 27, repeated in
fig.62B: thelotuses areof the compact, square form which we see in many other
early vases (Protocorinthian and early Corinthian, cf. figs. 52A, 55 A, &c), the
palmettes are small, and the connecting links are unusually elaborate, recalling
those of the Chigi vase. In all these respects the chain of the Eurytios crater
differs from those of middle and late Corinthian vases, and confirms the early
1 Here we have the same kind of loosely tectonic
relation which we see in the early Attic amphora,
Jacobsthal pi. 7. Other early examples are the
griffon jug, J.H.S. 1926 pi. 7, and the Italian
oinochoe from the Barberini tomb, Memoirs of the
American Academy at Rome v, pi. 6. The Proto-
attic amphora in New York which has been men-
tioned in this connexion is hardly a case in point, as
3575 x
the palmette is not exactly beneath the handle, and
on the other side there is no palmette at all.
2 Nos. 1444-7.
3 Nos. 1295, 1330, 1351-3; there are several other
amphoriskoi not mentioned individually in the cata-
logue ; cf. the Attic amphoriskos Athens 546, from
Megara.