Pottery: red-figured squat lekythos (oil-bottle). Design red, white, and yellow on a black panel, with modern purple additions. Above, a laurel-wreath with a ranunculus in the middle, and egg-moulding; below, wave-pattern; at the back, palmettes. On the left is Athene, seated on a rock to right, with curls, helmet, necklace, bracelets, long chiton with chequer-border and broad white girdle, and himation, spear in left hand, shield against right knee; in right hand she holds out a phiale. Behind her is a taenia; in the background, a lion's head, from which water (represented by white paint) pours into a white laver. Before her a youth approaches, leading up a horse by the bridle, with short chiton and broad white belt, chlamys over arms floating behind, and shoes. Behind him are low rocks, on the further side of which is a youth moving away, looking back, with short bordered chiton, white greaves, sheathed sword in right hand, and shield on left arm; these two may represent Achilles and Troilus. The rocks are painted yellow with spots of black and white. --The British Museum, Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Smith, A H; Pryce, F N, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 2, British Museum 2, London, BMP, 1926
