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bowl (Crater). Found at Ruvo. In the Naples Museum.
South Italian, of Fourth or Third Century b.c.
Panofka, Bilder ant. Lebens, Pl. 20, 1.
Heydemann, Vasensammlungen, Pl. 584, No. 3255.
Gerhard, Akad. Abhandlungen, Pl. 1.
Overbeck, Gallerie, p. 114, Pl. 4, 3.
Guhl and Koner, Life, &c., fig. 318.
Smith, Diet. Ant., i. 886.
Baumeister, Denkmdler, p. 115, fig. 120.
The scene is in the open air. The body is laid out on
a bed which stands on grass. The bed is covered with
embroidered mattresses and pillows. A maiden holds an um-
brella1 (σκιάδειον) over the dead boy’s head, so that the sun-god
may not be polluted by shining On a corpse. An old woman
(the nurse ?) veiled, is laying a wreath of myrtle on the breast
of the dead, while the paedagogus ΠΑΙΔΑΓ(ωγ)Ο^) is approach-
ing with his pupil’s lyre to lay it on the bed.
On the right are two attendants bearing on their heads low
tables on which are laid jugs with the funeral libations, and
ribands (ταιι/ιαι) and cups. In their hands they carry the
bathing implements, sponge in a bag, strigils and ^oil-flask
(of Pl. 23, fig. 6) to lay them with the lyre on the bed.
Between these two figures is a large richly decorated lustral
vase (λουτροφορο?) intended to be placed over the tomb.
Underneath the bed is a jug, which probably contains lustral
water.
Figs, io, ii.—Plan and Section of a Rock-cut Grave
on Aegina.
Expedition de Moree, iii. 40.
Guhl and Koner, Life, &c., figs. 102, 103.
A narrow flight of stairs (b) leads down to the chief chamber
(b) in which are three sepulchral couches (r c e) of stone, sup-
ported by plain stone slabs.
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South Italian, of Fourth or Third Century b.c.
Panofka, Bilder ant. Lebens, Pl. 20, 1.
Heydemann, Vasensammlungen, Pl. 584, No. 3255.
Gerhard, Akad. Abhandlungen, Pl. 1.
Overbeck, Gallerie, p. 114, Pl. 4, 3.
Guhl and Koner, Life, &c., fig. 318.
Smith, Diet. Ant., i. 886.
Baumeister, Denkmdler, p. 115, fig. 120.
The scene is in the open air. The body is laid out on
a bed which stands on grass. The bed is covered with
embroidered mattresses and pillows. A maiden holds an um-
brella1 (σκιάδειον) over the dead boy’s head, so that the sun-god
may not be polluted by shining On a corpse. An old woman
(the nurse ?) veiled, is laying a wreath of myrtle on the breast
of the dead, while the paedagogus ΠΑΙΔΑΓ(ωγ)Ο^) is approach-
ing with his pupil’s lyre to lay it on the bed.
On the right are two attendants bearing on their heads low
tables on which are laid jugs with the funeral libations, and
ribands (ταιι/ιαι) and cups. In their hands they carry the
bathing implements, sponge in a bag, strigils and ^oil-flask
(of Pl. 23, fig. 6) to lay them with the lyre on the bed.
Between these two figures is a large richly decorated lustral
vase (λουτροφορο?) intended to be placed over the tomb.
Underneath the bed is a jug, which probably contains lustral
water.
Figs, io, ii.—Plan and Section of a Rock-cut Grave
on Aegina.
Expedition de Moree, iii. 40.
Guhl and Koner, Life, &c., figs. 102, 103.
A narrow flight of stairs (b) leads down to the chief chamber
(b) in which are three sepulchral couches (r c e) of stone, sup-
ported by plain stone slabs.
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