Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with pomegranates above, and cheque-pattern down the sides; accessories of white and purple, faded. Peleus seizing Thetis: Peleus to right, bearded, with a myrtle-wreath on his head and embroidered drapery round his loins, seizes Thetis round the waist; she moves away to right, looking to left, with arms extended; she has long hair, fillet, long chiton and himation, both embroidered. On the right is an altar with top in the form of an Ionic capital. On the left is a similar Nereid, departing and looking back, with arms extended. The folds of the drapery are indicated in all three figures. In the field, branches. --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 (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with borders of dots above and down the sides; accessories of white and purple. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: On the right is the Cyclops leaning against the wall of his cave, the eyes drawn without pupils to indicate blindness, right leg drawn up, and right hand extended. Odysseus approaches from the entrance of the cave on the left, tied under the body of the ram; he is nude and bearded. In the background, a tree with fruit. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Beazley, J D, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with borders of dots above and down the sides; accessories of white and purple. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: On the right is the Cyclops leaning against the wall of his cave, the eyes drawn without pupils to indicate blindness, right leg drawn up, and right hand extended. Odysseus approaches from the entrance of the cave on the left, tied under the body of the ram; he is nude and bearded. In the background, a tree with fruit. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Beazley, J D, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with borders of dots above and down the sides; accessories of white and purple. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: On the right is the Cyclops leaning against the wall of his cave, the eyes drawn without pupils to indicate blindness, right leg drawn up, and right hand extended. Odysseus approaches from the entrance of the cave on the left, tied under the body of the ram; he is nude and bearded. In the background, a tree with fruit. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Beazley, J D, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956
Pottery: black-figured oinochoe (wine-jug). Design black on a red panel, with borders of dots above and down the sides; accessories of white and purple. Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos: On the right is the Cyclops leaning against the wall of his cave, the eyes drawn without pupils to indicate blindness, right leg drawn up, and right hand extended. Odysseus approaches from the entrance of the cave on the left, tied under the body of the ram; he is nude and bearded. In the background, a tree with fruit. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Beazley, J D, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1956
Pottery: black-figured olpe (jug). Grooved handle. Design in black on a red panel, with lotus and honeysuckle pattern along the top; accessories of white and purple. Perseus slaying Medusa: On the left is Perseus to right, looking back, beardless, with petasos, short embroidered chiton, over which is the skin of a deer, endromides, and the kibisis (sack) slung at his back; he grasps Medusa round the neck with left hand, and with right plunges his sword into her neck in front. Medusa moves away to right, in the archaic running attitude, with face turned to the front, of the usual Gorgon type, with short curls in front and protruding tusks and tongue; on the lower lip is a fringe of hair, and two snakes rise from her head on either side; she has a short purple chiton, over which is a stippled skin, with two snakes knotted round the waist, their heads confronted; also endromides, and two pairs of wings, outspread, the upper ones recurved. On the right is Hermes to left, bearded, with petasos, short embroidered chiton, fringed chlamys, endromides, and caduceus in left hand. Down the left side of the panel, an inscription. --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 lekythos (oil-flask). Accessories faded. On the neck, palmettes; above the design, maeander. Quadriga of Achilles at full speed to right, the horses having very long tails and pendants from their collars; the charioteer in long white chiton, holding goad and reins, his head obliterated. It is passing by the tomb of Patroclos, represented by a white bell-shaped mound, over which is the hero's ghost, in archaic running attitude to right, fully armed, with two spears, and winged. By the side of the horses is a dog running to right. --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 kyathos (dipper). Coarse style. On the top of the handle is a knob. In the centre, Ajax and Achilles (or other warriors) playing with pessi (dice); they are kneeling on opposite sides of a table, on which are visible six pessi, to which they put out their hands. Both have high-crested helmets and spears, and are wrapped in himatia; in the background is a palm-tree. Behind each warrior is a female figure looking on, with long hair, fillet, long chiton, and embroidered himation; the one on the right extends her arms to the warrior. On the left is a bearded figure seated to left, looking back, in long chiton and himation, both embroidered, right hand raised. A female figure (the head obliterated) advances towards him, in long chiton and embroidered himation, holding out a wreath. On the right is a bearded figure seated to right, looking back, in long chiton and embroidered himation, with left hand raised, holding a keras (?). Before him is a male figure departing, wrapped in an embroidered himation, looking back. --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 kyathos (dipper). Coarse style. On the top of the handle is a knob. In the centre, Ajax and Achilles (or other warriors) playing with pessi (dice); they are kneeling on opposite sides of a table, on which are visible six pessi, to which they put out their hands. Both have high-crested helmets and spears, and are wrapped in himatia; in the background is a palm-tree. Behind each warrior is a female figure looking on, with long hair, fillet, long chiton, and embroidered himation; the one on the right extends her arms to the warrior. On the left is a bearded figure seated to left, looking back, in long chiton and himation, both embroidered, right hand raised. A female figure (the head obliterated) advances towards him, in long chiton and embroidered himation, holding out a wreath. On the right is a bearded figure seated to right, looking back, in long chiton and embroidered himation, with left hand raised, holding a keras (?). Before him is a male figure departing, wrapped in an embroidered himation, looking back. --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 amphora. On the neck, double honeysuckle. Under the handles, a pattern of spirals. Below the designs, maeander and lotus-buds. (a) Achilles and Ajax playing with pessi: On the right is Achilles seated on a block to left, bearded, with long tresses and short curls in front, high-crested helmet (raised), short embroidered chiton, striped himation, and greaves with volutes, right hand extended, in left two spears; behind him a Boeotian shield with device of a tripod; above is inscribed: ΑΧΙΛΕΥΣ. On the left is Ajax seated facing him, bearded, with short curly hair, high-crested helmet (raised), cuirass, short diapered chiton, striped chlamys, and greaves with volutes; in left hand two spears, with right he is about to move one of the pessi, of which seven are visible, on a table between them. Behind him is a Boeotian shield with two pellets; above: AIAΣ. Between them is inscribed: Λυσιππίδης καλός. (b) Heracles conducted to Olympos: A quadriga to right, in which are Athene, with long tresses, lofty helmet with cheek-pieces and fillet, aegis with scales and fringe of snakes, long chiton and diapered over-chiton spear in right hand, and reins in both, and Heracles, bearded, with hair curly in front and striped himation, carrying club. At the further side of the horses are Dionysos looking back, with long beard and hair, ivy-wreath, long chiton and himation with border of spirals, in right hand a vine-branch, in left a cantharos, and further to the right Apollo, beardless, with long hair arranged in spirals in front, laurel-wreath, long striped chiton and embroidered himation, playing on the chelys. At the horses' heads stands Hermes to left, bearded, with long tresses and curls in front, short chiton, striped himation, petasos, endromides, and caduceus. --The British Museum, Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Rawson, Jessica, Chinese Ornament: The Lotus and the Dragon, London, BMP, 1984; Walters, H B, Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 5, British Museum 4, London, BMP, 1929