Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora. (a) Type of Menelaus pursuing Helen. Warrior with drawn sword pursuing a woman. He is bearded, wreathed, nude, with petasos hanging by cord at back, chlamys as shield on left arm, scabbard at waist, with brown snake ornament twisted round it, and rushes to right with a drawn sword in his right hand; the woman in chiton, himation, bracelets, earrings, and a radiated stephane, looks back, extending her right with a gesture of entreaty; with her left she raises the edge of her skirt. Between the figures, ΔΙΟΝΟΚΛΕΣ KAΛΟΣ, Διωνοκλής καλός. (b) A bald-headed old man (or woman?) in long chiton, himation and fillet, and carrying a crutch staff on his left arm, running to left, extending his right arm as if to aid the woman in a. In the field, KAΛΛΙΑΣ, above, KAΛΟΣ, Καλλίας καλός. Later stage of strong style. Purple inscriptions, wreath, fillet, cord of petasos, and swordbelt. Brown inner markings, folds of chiton in b, and bracelets. Hair of warrior edged with dots, beard with wavy strokes; hair and beard of old man left in brown outline. Eye of warrior of transition type (dotted circle in place of inner angle); the other eyes archaic. Below the scenes a continuous band, sets of five maeanders separated by red cross and dotted chequer squares. On the lower insertion of each handle, an inverted 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; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 7, British Museum 5, London, BMP, 1930
Pottery: red-figured neck-amphora, with twisted handles. (a) Nike pouring wine, warrior. The warrior, on left, stands en face, with right hand on hip, and holding a spear upright in his left, and looks to right at Nike, who is also en face, but looks at him: she holds up in her left a caduceus, and pours wine on the ground from a jug in her right, her wings are spread on each side, and she wears a Doric chiton schistos, and a broad buckled band round her looped up hair: the warrior has a helmet with raised cheekpieces, frontal of projecting spirals, and a honeysuckle ornament on the crown, a cuirass with central stripe of scales and shoulder-pieces decorated with stars, a short chiton, and a sword. (b) Nike and a woman. Nike on right stands as before, extending her right as if addressing the woman on left, who holds a short-headed spear (?) or sceptre upright in her right; she wears an Ionic chiton and mantle; Nike a Doric chiton with apoptygma and broad girdle; each has the hair looped up with a fillet. Strong good period. Purple wine. Brown edge of hair and inner markings. Below, sets of three maeanders separated by oblique red cross squares. Round shoulder, guilloche: round lip, egg pattern: on each side of neck, a palmette with four tendrils: below each handle, two palmettes back-to-back, with a spiral tendril on each side. -- 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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. Palmettes and lotus flowers on neck. Side A: Thetis and Nereid bringing armour to Achilles. Thetis holds out a shield (purple rosette as device) to Achilles, who is bearded and holds up a helmet. On the right a Nereid holds greaves and a spear. On the left an elderly man with spear. Side B: Two cocks confronted, with lotus flower between and two lotus buds above. --The British Museum, Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. Palmettes and lotus flowers on neck. Side A: Thetis and Nereid bringing armour to Achilles. Thetis holds out a shield (purple rosette as device) to Achilles, who is bearded and holds up a helmet. On the right a Nereid holds greaves and a spear. On the left an elderly man with spear. Side B: Two cocks confronted, with lotus flower between and two lotus buds above. --The British Museum, Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 4, British Museum 3, London, BMP, 1927
Pottery: black-figured neck-amphora. (a) Birth of Athene: In the centre is Zeus seated to right on an okladias, bearded, with long tresses, fillet, long embroidered chiton and striped himation, sceptre in left hand. From his head springs a diminutive Athene to right, with one leg advanced, lofty helmet with cheek pieces, aegis, long striped chiton, shield, and spear brandished in right hand. On either side of Zeus is an Eileithyia, facing him, with long tresses, fillet, long embroidered chiton and diploidion, both hands raised. On the left is Hermes to right, bearded, with long hair, petasos, endromides, and caduceus; on the right is Hephaestos departing, looking back, nude and bearded, with double-headed axe over right shoulder. (b) Acamas and Demophon with Aethra: In the centre is Aethra to right, in long chiton and himation veiling her head, both embroidered, and in advance of her is Demophon, looking back at her and taking hold of her himation. On the left is Acamas to right; both are fully armed, with short embroidered chitons; Acamas has a Boeotian shield. On the right is a beardless male figure to left with long chiton and embroidered 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; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 8, British Museum 6, London, BMP, 1931