Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (jug). Design black on a red panel, with maeander above; accessories of white and purple. Quadriga seen from the front, the charioteer slightly bearded, with purple pilos and long white chiton, the folds indicated by wavy lines; on either side of him a small bird flying away. On the left is a male figure, bearded, with long hair, fillet, long white chiton, folds as before, and purple himation, spear in left hand. On the right is a nude beardless male figure with long tresses, purple pilos, and spear in right hand. Below the handle is painted the face of a tiger, with black markings on red, the ears in purple and white. --The British Museum
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). High grooved handle. Design black on a red panel, with chequer-pattern above; accessories of white and purple. Warrior arming: In the centre is the warrior to right, beardless, with cuirass, short embroidered chiton, sword at side, and a greave on right leg, painted purple; he holds up left leg to put on the other greave. Facing him is a female figure with long hair, fillet, and long striped chiton, holding his spear and shield; the device on the latter is a bull's head. Behind her is a warrior to left, with visored helmet, greaves, the left one painted purple, spear and shield with the device of a bent leg; behind him an archer departing to right, looking back, with peaked cap, short purple chiton, and quiver with lid in the form of a wing. On the left is a warrior departing and looking back, armed as the last with a chlamys; on his shield is a bull's head. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
Pottery Pitcher. Clay: orange-buff clay, white grits, semilustrous brown-black paint. Shape: Flaring lip, near-vertical neck, plump ovoid body with two mastoi on the shoulder, ring foot; broad strap handle rising above rim, linked to the neck by a strut. Decoration: Neck: double meander between dotted lozenge chains; at either side, columns of check pattern between diagonal bars. Shoulder: central metope with kneeling goat, head reverted , above latticed triangles; at each side, columns of diagonal bars and mastos panel containing bird, dots and latticed triangle; eight-point star within circle on each mastos. In the long lateral panels, hatched zigzags with latticed triangles in the spaces, each bordered by columns of latticing. Dotted lozenge chain. Figured zone around belly: alternating with rows of female mourners, four prothesis scenes, on front, back, and each flank. All four share the following details, although with some variations and omissions: a four-legged bier and, below, a kneeling goat with reverted head; a shroud in double outline, usually hatched, and drawn upward to reveal the corpse; and a latticed pillow near the head of the deceased. Variations: (a) in front, to the right of the bier, a latticed tongue with double outline; (b), on one flank, the shroud is omitted; (c) on the back, a second goat to the left of the bier, and the shroud is filled with a zigzag; and (d), on the other flank, the corpse has no hands or pillow and, to the right of the bier, is a smaller mourner, perhaps an adolescent female, with breasts shown. Filling ornaments: standing and pendent latticed triangles, dotted circles, columns of chevron flanked by dots between mourners. Lower body: lozenge chain, small dotted triangles with prolonged and curved apices, dots in the field; vertical wavy lines, paint on foot. Handle: serpent flanked by dots, dotted ovals in the field, between vertical lines; above, panel with twelve-point star, between bars. Groups of nine bars on rim, band inside. --The British Museum
Pottery: red-figured oinochoe with trefoil mouth. On the body: Apollo and Artemis. On the left Apollo stands holding in his left a chelys, his right resting on his hip; he is a youthful beardless figure with long wavy hair, of which a single tress falls on each shoulder; he wears a long sleeved chiton and himation. He is confronted by Artemis, who holds in her left a bow, and holds up her right hand as if addressing Apollo. She wears a long sleeved chiton, himation fastened on the left shoulder, a quiver, and a radiated stephane; her hair is passed at the end through a roll. On the foot an incised character. Late stage of strong severe style. Brown inner markings and upper folds of chiton; the hair over the forehead in rows of dots in thinned black. The lower folds of the chiton are arranged in regular groups of four each. Below, a strip of pairs of maeanders set alternate ways, separated by dotted cross squares; at the junction of the neck, a strip of egg pattern. --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 oinochoe with trefoil mouth. On body: Nike flying to right towards an altar, holding in her right a thymiaterion, in her left a phiale mesomphalos. Her face, wings and body are en face; she wears an Ionic chiton, a himation over both shoulders, bracelets and a saccos; her hair falls in three wavy tresses on each shoulder; and around her neck is a necklace with cruciform pendant. The thymiaterion has a cover ornamented with rows of dots and zigzags. The altar is in the form of an Ionic capital with volutes supporting a curved rim; from behind (or out of ?) it springs a long shoot with tendrils, terminating in a flower. Later stage of severe style. Purple bracelets. Brown upper folds of chiton, hair over forehead, details of wings and thymiaterion, and necklace. Eyes (full face) of archaic type. Below, a strip of maeander; above, at junction of neck, of egg pattern. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (jug). Design black on a red panel, with maeander above; accessories of white and purple. Quadriga seen from the front, the charioteer slightly bearded, with purple pilos and long white chiton, the folds indicated by wavy lines; on either side of him a small bird flying away. On the left is a male figure, bearded, with long hair, fillet, long white chiton, folds as before, and purple himation, spear in left hand. On the right is a nude beardless male figure with long tresses, purple pilos, and spear in right hand. Below the handle is painted the face of a tiger, with black markings on red, the ears in purple and white. --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: black-figured oinochoe (jug). Design black on a red panel, with maeander above; accessories of white and purple. Quadriga seen from the front, the charioteer slightly bearded, with purple pilos and long white chiton, the folds indicated by wavy lines; on either side of him a small bird flying away. On the left is a male figure, bearded, with long hair, fillet, long white chiton, folds as before, and purple himation, spear in left hand. On the right is a nude beardless male figure with long tresses, purple pilos, and spear in right hand. Below the handle is painted the face of a tiger, with black markings on red, the ears in purple and white. --The British Museum
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