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RED-FIGURE STYLE. POLYCHROME WARE
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exception, of little importance. As far as can be told from the various bases and handles
preserved, three shapes were represented, — kylix, amphora, and skyphos. Exactly six
fragments of the first period of the severe style were found, of which five are here repre-
sented. Of a rhyton, representing the head of a satyr probably, the eye, one ear, and
part of the beard were also found, but no reconstruction was possible.
SEVERE STYLE.
28. Fragment from rim of kylix. Palmette.
29. Fragment of kylix. Backs of two horses. On the flank of the first, a small wheel orna-
ment, and a hand on the shoulder.
30. Fragment of kylix. Female figure, draped, with arm extended. Perhaps an Athena.
31. Form uncertain. Leg of a warrior to right armed with shield, with a frieze border. Glaze
badly worn ; traces of preliminary drawing.
The fifth fragment of this period is the polychrome kylix (see below). The sixth
fragment represented a palmette similar to 28.
LATER STYLE.
32. Fragment of amjihora. Upper part of woman's head to left (maenad probably), with a
saccos, holding a thyrsos ; above, tongue pattern.
33. Fragment of kylix or skyphos. Boy holding torch to right.
34. Fragment of amphora. Man in mantle with staff, facing another figure (probably a woman)
clad in chiton and himation.
The other fragments showed the upper part of a youth wrapped in a mantle, very poorly
drawn ; two hoofs of a horse clear of the ground, probably represented as galloping;
parts of garments of several figures, and various bits of palmettes, tongue patterns, etc.
POLYCHROME WARE.
Plate LXVIIT. Two fragments1 of a kylix (form, Berl. Cat. vi. 224). Exterior entirely
covered with a black glaze, fairly brilliant. The original form seems to have been the squat-footed
type with a thick base, characteristic of the smaller kylikes with no decoration on the exterior.
The entire interior is covered with a whitish yellow slip slightly reddish in places. The central
picture, bounded by a plain circle, represents a group on an exergue, a nude satyr (upper part of
head missing) leaning on some object, probably a rock. He has a horse's tail and long shaggy
beard : his chest and abdomen down to the pubes are thickly covered with hair. Faint red lines
are used for the muscles of the stomach and the knee cap. On b a foot projecting from a garment
to right upon an exergue. In the field of a, inside the circle, E A (ey[pa^>crei'] ?).
The subject of the composition is not quite clear. We have a group of two figures, a satyr and
another figure, which may be male or female ; the circle is too small for a third figure. Three
interpretations are possible, — Satyr and Dionysos, Marsyas and Athena (Roscher's Lex. II.
p. 2446), Satyr and Maenad. The first is possible, but unlikely, as Dionysos is generally repre-
sented with an attendant satyr on each side. The second is extremely doubtful, for the object in
the centre rather speaks against it, at least if we imagine such a scene conceived in the spirit of the
Berlin lekythos (Baum. Denk. p. 1001, fig. 1209). The last interpretation is the most likely,
though how the group was represented is impossible to say.
The loss of the larger part of the subject is irritating enough, but the mutilated inscription is
still more perplexing. That eypa^a-ev was written, and that the artist's name followed the verb
seems most probable, but what the name was cannot be conjectured on such slight indications.
If, as is possible, the vase is by some well-known artist, more can be gained through the stylistic
features. The class of polychrome vases known to us at present is not very large. Hartwig 2 enu-
1 Another fragment with part of the handle was found " Meisterschalen, p. 499, note 1.
which had no decoration except the white slip.
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exception, of little importance. As far as can be told from the various bases and handles
preserved, three shapes were represented, — kylix, amphora, and skyphos. Exactly six
fragments of the first period of the severe style were found, of which five are here repre-
sented. Of a rhyton, representing the head of a satyr probably, the eye, one ear, and
part of the beard were also found, but no reconstruction was possible.
SEVERE STYLE.
28. Fragment from rim of kylix. Palmette.
29. Fragment of kylix. Backs of two horses. On the flank of the first, a small wheel orna-
ment, and a hand on the shoulder.
30. Fragment of kylix. Female figure, draped, with arm extended. Perhaps an Athena.
31. Form uncertain. Leg of a warrior to right armed with shield, with a frieze border. Glaze
badly worn ; traces of preliminary drawing.
The fifth fragment of this period is the polychrome kylix (see below). The sixth
fragment represented a palmette similar to 28.
LATER STYLE.
32. Fragment of amjihora. Upper part of woman's head to left (maenad probably), with a
saccos, holding a thyrsos ; above, tongue pattern.
33. Fragment of kylix or skyphos. Boy holding torch to right.
34. Fragment of amphora. Man in mantle with staff, facing another figure (probably a woman)
clad in chiton and himation.
The other fragments showed the upper part of a youth wrapped in a mantle, very poorly
drawn ; two hoofs of a horse clear of the ground, probably represented as galloping;
parts of garments of several figures, and various bits of palmettes, tongue patterns, etc.
POLYCHROME WARE.
Plate LXVIIT. Two fragments1 of a kylix (form, Berl. Cat. vi. 224). Exterior entirely
covered with a black glaze, fairly brilliant. The original form seems to have been the squat-footed
type with a thick base, characteristic of the smaller kylikes with no decoration on the exterior.
The entire interior is covered with a whitish yellow slip slightly reddish in places. The central
picture, bounded by a plain circle, represents a group on an exergue, a nude satyr (upper part of
head missing) leaning on some object, probably a rock. He has a horse's tail and long shaggy
beard : his chest and abdomen down to the pubes are thickly covered with hair. Faint red lines
are used for the muscles of the stomach and the knee cap. On b a foot projecting from a garment
to right upon an exergue. In the field of a, inside the circle, E A (ey[pa^>crei'] ?).
The subject of the composition is not quite clear. We have a group of two figures, a satyr and
another figure, which may be male or female ; the circle is too small for a third figure. Three
interpretations are possible, — Satyr and Dionysos, Marsyas and Athena (Roscher's Lex. II.
p. 2446), Satyr and Maenad. The first is possible, but unlikely, as Dionysos is generally repre-
sented with an attendant satyr on each side. The second is extremely doubtful, for the object in
the centre rather speaks against it, at least if we imagine such a scene conceived in the spirit of the
Berlin lekythos (Baum. Denk. p. 1001, fig. 1209). The last interpretation is the most likely,
though how the group was represented is impossible to say.
The loss of the larger part of the subject is irritating enough, but the mutilated inscription is
still more perplexing. That eypa^a-ev was written, and that the artist's name followed the verb
seems most probable, but what the name was cannot be conjectured on such slight indications.
If, as is possible, the vase is by some well-known artist, more can be gained through the stylistic
features. The class of polychrome vases known to us at present is not very large. Hartwig 2 enu-
1 Another fragment with part of the handle was found " Meisterschalen, p. 499, note 1.
which had no decoration except the white slip.