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
Pottery: black-figured hydria. Designs in black on red panels, with borders of ivy down the sides; accessories of white and purple. 1. On the shoulder: Battle-scene: A quadriga at full speed to left; in it a warrior with visored helmet, two spears, and shield with device of a tripod. A warrior is fallen to left under the horses' feet, fully armed, with Boeotian shield, on which are two pellets. Behind him are two warriors to right defending him with spears, both fully armed; the first has an ivy-wreath as device on shield, the second a tripod. Behind the quadriga, are two fully-armed warriors in combat; the one on the left, with Boeotian shield, has beaten down the other on one knee and is about to transfix him with spear. 2. On the body: Marriage-procession: A quadriga to right in which are the bride and bridegroom (possibly Hera and Zeus), the former veiled in a himation, the latter bearded, in long chiton and striped himation, goad in right hand, reins in both. In advance of them, at further side of horses, is a beardless male figure (Apollo?) to right, with long hair, curls in front of his ears, embroidered chiton and striped himation, playing on the chelys. Facing him, also on further side of horses, is a female figure (Aphrodite?) with long tresses and long embroidered chiton, holding up a flower in right hand. In front of the horses is the proegetes (leader of the procession), or Hermes, to right, bearded, with long tresses, striped chlamys, petasos, endromides, and caduceus. 3. Below: A lion to right confronted by a boar twice repeated. -- 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