Waldstein, Charles: The Argive Heraeum (Band 2): Terra-cotta figurines, terra-cotta reliefs, vases, vase fragments, bronzes, engraved stones, gems and ivories, coins, Egyptian or Graeco-Egyptian objects (Boston [u.a.], 1905)

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hand animal is a hare is certain, but the identity of the other is doubtful. The assertion is
frequently made, but without positive proof, that in vases of the Corinthian type, especially of ary-
balloi, where two panthers are seen with heads full front together and bodies in profile, that one

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panther only is meant, and that by some curious conventionality of ideas both sides of the animal
were to be seen at the same time. In the case of our animals, two legs only are given to each, and
as the left side of the shoulder of the vase has suffered abrasion, it is pos-
sible the animal there had an ear: in that case one hare was probably
intended, but split in half, and each side arranged symmetrically at
each end of the palmette scroll.

Fig. 89. (Drawing on Plate LXIV. 12.) Height, 0.044 m. Neck and
handle missing. Yellow clay, with dark brown and reddish brown deco-
ration, very brilliant. On base of handle, traces of a zigzag with small
lozenges as ornaments in field. On shoulder, leaf rosette ; on body, two
friezes. Main frieze : panther, owl, panther and boar. Dotted rosettes,
halved lozenges, and what may be a scorpion or a lizard,1 as ornaments in
field. Lower frieze: three dogs to right, with a single dotted rosette
separating two of them. On base, rays. Incised lines used on all the figures.

In this vase we have an example of the latter period of Class III., but
there are no striking features. The drawing is fair, especially good in the case of the boar. The

1 As on Geometric vases. Cf. Plate LVII. 24.