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I92 LOCAL IMITATIONS AND
placed it in a list of vases of ' Boeoto-Chalcidian' fabric.1 Zahn suggested
Eretria as the home of this class.2 According to Libertini and Dugas, no. 3 is
Laconian. I have no doubt that they are all Attic. That they are not Corin-
thian is proved beyond question by the technique and by the style. The clay
is warm brown, turning to orange in no. 5. The whole character of the draw-
ing is utterly unlike that of any existing Corinthian vase. The lions are
particularly distinctive, and un-Corinthian in every detail.3 The only speci-
Fig. 86. From an Attic olpe (p. 191, no. 4).
fically Corinthian motive is the hare hunt on no. i, and this of course is by no
means confined to Corinth.4
Immediately connected with the foregoing, and almost certainly by the same
hand, are several vases by the painter of the gorgon-dinos in the Louvre:
1. Dinos: Louvre E 874, from Etruria (C.V.A. iii Hd pis. 14-17; Pfuhl fig. 92).
Perseus and the gorgons; animals.
2. Crater on stand: Athens, from the Acropolis (Graf pi. 17,474). Chariot and animals.
3. Plates: London and Oxford, from Naukratis. PI. 53, 4 (London). In centre, gor-
goneion; round this, animals.
4. 5. Athens, from the Acropolis (Graf pi. 23, 515; the other unpublished). Animals.
6. Amphora: Louvre E 817, from Caere. Fig. 87 (C.V.A. iii H e pi. 1,4 and 10). A,
lions; B, sphinxes.
7. Tripod-cothon: Athens, from the Acropolis (Graf pi. 19, 506). Animals.
8. Uncertain shape: Athens, as last (op. cit. pi. 18,472 b). Sphinx.
My reason for thinking that the Deianeira group is Attic is that it cannot
possibly be separated from the Gorgon group. The resemblance extends not
merely to the lions which are a favourite motive in both classes (cf. fig. 86 and
P1-53»7»DeianeiragrouP)andfig-87andpl.53,4, Gorgon group), but also to the
1 ChalkidischeVasen i55. The other lekythos there and claws. The red muzzle of the lions on nos. i
mentioned is not certainly connected with these and and 2 is again a typically Attic detail, unknown in
may be a provincial copy. Corinthian. All these details recur in the vases
2 And of the gorgon-group (B.P.W. 1902, 1264). by the painter of the Gorgon dinos, mentioned
3 The 'flame mane' is Attic, and not Corinthian, below.
So also the rendering of the mouth and of the legs 4 On Corinthian hare hunts, see p. 74, note 8.
placed it in a list of vases of ' Boeoto-Chalcidian' fabric.1 Zahn suggested
Eretria as the home of this class.2 According to Libertini and Dugas, no. 3 is
Laconian. I have no doubt that they are all Attic. That they are not Corin-
thian is proved beyond question by the technique and by the style. The clay
is warm brown, turning to orange in no. 5. The whole character of the draw-
ing is utterly unlike that of any existing Corinthian vase. The lions are
particularly distinctive, and un-Corinthian in every detail.3 The only speci-
Fig. 86. From an Attic olpe (p. 191, no. 4).
fically Corinthian motive is the hare hunt on no. i, and this of course is by no
means confined to Corinth.4
Immediately connected with the foregoing, and almost certainly by the same
hand, are several vases by the painter of the gorgon-dinos in the Louvre:
1. Dinos: Louvre E 874, from Etruria (C.V.A. iii Hd pis. 14-17; Pfuhl fig. 92).
Perseus and the gorgons; animals.
2. Crater on stand: Athens, from the Acropolis (Graf pi. 17,474). Chariot and animals.
3. Plates: London and Oxford, from Naukratis. PI. 53, 4 (London). In centre, gor-
goneion; round this, animals.
4. 5. Athens, from the Acropolis (Graf pi. 23, 515; the other unpublished). Animals.
6. Amphora: Louvre E 817, from Caere. Fig. 87 (C.V.A. iii H e pi. 1,4 and 10). A,
lions; B, sphinxes.
7. Tripod-cothon: Athens, from the Acropolis (Graf pi. 19, 506). Animals.
8. Uncertain shape: Athens, as last (op. cit. pi. 18,472 b). Sphinx.
My reason for thinking that the Deianeira group is Attic is that it cannot
possibly be separated from the Gorgon group. The resemblance extends not
merely to the lions which are a favourite motive in both classes (cf. fig. 86 and
P1-53»7»DeianeiragrouP)andfig-87andpl.53,4, Gorgon group), but also to the
1 ChalkidischeVasen i55. The other lekythos there and claws. The red muzzle of the lions on nos. i
mentioned is not certainly connected with these and and 2 is again a typically Attic detail, unknown in
may be a provincial copy. Corinthian. All these details recur in the vases
2 And of the gorgon-group (B.P.W. 1902, 1264). by the painter of the Gorgon dinos, mentioned
3 The 'flame mane' is Attic, and not Corinthian, below.
So also the rendering of the mouth and of the legs 4 On Corinthian hare hunts, see p. 74, note 8.