Pottery: red-figured pelike. Fine style. Brown edge of hair, lower folds of chitons in b, and necklace. Eye in profile, with eyelash. Below each side, a strip of maeander broken by red cross squares (diagonal); above, a strip of laurel wreath. At the lower insertion of each handle, a double palmette. (a) Apollo and Artemis. On the left Apollo, in long sleeved chiton and bordered himation fastened on right shoulder, his long hair looped up behind with the ends falling over, wreathed with laurel, stands holding a kithara attached to his left hand by a sash; in his right he holds out a phiale decorated with bosses within a wavy line. From the kithara a sash hangs, decorated with zigzags and dots, and a fringe. On the right Artemis in similar dress, her hair looped up with a radiated stephane, stands en face, but looks towards Apollo, holding in her right an oinochoe, and in her left a bow (bowstring not indicated). (b) Two women conversing; they stand in relatively the same positions as the figures in a. The one on the left raises her right over the open palm of her left; she wears a fillet, her companion a saccos decorated with pairs of dots; each wears a chiton and himation. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
Pottery: red-figured pelike. (a) Bearded satyr arming, and Maenad. The satyr, on left, wearing a helmet with raised cheek-pieces, lifts his left leg, putting on it a greave; the other greave stands upright on the ground below. The Maenad stands ready with the other arms of the satyr, a thyrsos held upright in her right hand, and a pardalis (for his shield) hanging from her left forearm. She wears a sleeved chiton, a saccos, and earrings. The thyrsos has four shoots of ivy, three on the head and one on the stem. The phallos of the satyr is recurved. (b) Dionysos and a Maenad. Dionysos, on the left, stands pouring a libation from a cantharos in his right hand; in his left he holds a forked branch of ivy. He is bearded, with long hair looped up and wreathed with ivy; wears sleeved chiton and himation. The Maenad stands with a thyrsos, as in a; wears sleeved chiton and himation covering the left arm, and earrings; her hair is looped up with a fillet. Strong style. Purple leaves of ivy, and wine. Brown inner markings and upper folds of chiton in b. Eye in archaic type. Below and above, sets of two opposed maeanders separated by red cross squares. On the lower insertion of each handle, a double palmette. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893