Pottery: Campanian red-figured hydria. Design red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow. On the neck and at the back, palmettes; below the design, maeander and crosses. Weighing of Erotes: On the right is a female figure to left, with flesh painted white, hair in a knot, radiated ampyx, long chiton and himation in which her left hand is muffled, earrings and bracelets; in right hand she holds out a pair of scales, of which the one on the right descends. In each scale is a diminutive Eros, painted white, with hands extended; below is a seat with legs painted white, on which is a white ball with patterns in yellow. On the left is a youth to right, with himation over left shoulder, leaning on a staff, with left hand on right arm; behind him a taenia and rosette of dots; in the field, two phialae, a rosette of dots, and ivy-leaves; the ground-lines are indicated. Under each handle is a female head facing toward the design, with close embroidered cap. --The British Museum, A Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the British Museum, London, William Nicol, 1851; 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
Pottery: red-figured hydria (water jar) with a scene at Agamemnon's tomb: Orestes and Pylades find Electra mourning, and together they plan to kill their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. The scene may have been inspired by Aeschylus' tragedy The Choephoroi. --The British Museum, Trendall, A D, The Red-Figured Vases of Lucania, Campania and Sicily, Clarendon Press, 1967