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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Fig. 94.

b. Scroll ending at each end in a trefoil. Base of handle preserved.

Fig. 94 shows the restoration of the design. The form is not absolutely certain, nor
height be determined, though, judging from the size of the fragments,
the vase must have measured about 30 cm. in height. It seems fairly
certain, however, that no other decoration existed on the vase unless we
suppose a similar design on the reverse and that the restoration here
given is correct.

The technique is precisely similar to Fig. 93, and as the resemblance
between the lions is so strong we may almost assume that both vases
were painted by the same artist. The scrolls which bound the panels
are interesting, and so far a similar case does not occur to me. There is
a certain resemblance between the trefoils and the ivy leaf on Myce-
naean vases (cf. Myk. Vas. xxi. 152; also J. II. 8. XI. [1890], pi.
xiv. 1), but whether the trefoils represent a development of the latter
cannot be told.

18. Fragment of a large vase, perhaps an amphora. Dark reddish clay, exterior covered with
a dull dark brown glaze. Broad band of white with, a row of small dots on each side.

This fragment, though differing considerably from the two vases just considered, has been
included here on account of the presence of the white dots. It presents this peculiarity that the
broad band of white is not painted over the glaze, since no trace of glaze can be found under it.
The clay is coarse and more akin in texture to vases of the Geometric style, but it cannot belong
to that class, since it seems certain that the entire vase was covered with a glaze, a peculiarity
entirely foreign to Geometric vases. We have already seen this peculiarity in the case of other
Argive vases, and it is probable that we have here a fragment of a vase which belongs to the same
class as those discussed on p. 158.

PLATE LXVII.

Seven fragments from the base of a bowl with tall base. From Old Temple Terrace (proba-
bly). Height cannot be determined. The fragments have been joined together to form the base
(8). Height, 0.425 m.: diameter at base, 0.29 m.: diameter at top, 0.1G m. The original vase
probably measured about 80 cm. in height.

Brick red clay, covered with a brownish yellow slip. Decoration uniformly black, with yellow
paint added freely. Incised lines used on the figures of the animals around the base.

The form of the vase was probably a large deep bowl resting on a tall base, similar to a vase in
Athens from Menidi (Jahrb. XIV. [1899], p. 108, fig. 10, or p. 12G. tig. 29). Of the bowl only
a small part is preserved in fragment 8 ; all the other fragments belong to the base.

Around the base are three friezes, and a narrow frieze at the bottom of the bowl.

Base. Lower frieze (4, 6, 7). Border, a guilloehe of black and white strands (as in Plate
LIX. 5). Separated from this by three stripes, a frieze of animals. What these animals are can-
not be determined. On 4 and G we have an animal crouching, with traces of what may have been
a horn on its head, and the tail of another, which projects into the frieze above. The first animal
is clearly crouching, and the body is covered with scales similar to AtJien. Jlitt. 1897, p. 309,
fig. 31. Incised lines on the foot, and on tail.

Separated by three stripes is another frieze, 1, 2, 4, and 5, on which a combat is represented.
Portions of eleven warriors are preserved, six to right, four to left, and a fallen warrior in the
centre.

In the centre of the frieze (4), a dying warrior to right stretching his arm behind him. His
leg is drawn in outline, and as no filling in with black or application of yellow is seen, it seems
probable that carelessness on the artist's j>art was responsible for this deficiency. On his shield is
a rosette, with yellow applied to five of the lobes ; yellow is also applied to the headpiece of the
helmet. On the left are two warriors advancing to right, both armed with helmet, shield, greaves,
spears, and sword.1 Yellow is applied to the headpieces of the helmets and to the greaves. The

1 This is not absolutely certain, except in the case of the first figure, where the object is too thick to be a spear.