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- Bilingual' pottery amphora. Designs in two panels, with borders of double honeysuckle above: (a) Black on red ground, with purple accessories and finely-incised lines; (b) Red on black ground, with purple accessories, and network borders down the sides in black on red. On the sides of the handles, ivy-wreaths; below the handles, palmettes with volutes; all black on red. (a) Achilles and Ajax (?) playing with pessi: On the right is Achilles seated, bearded, with hair rolled up under fillet, high-crested helmet short chiton richly diapered, cuirass, parameiridia, and greaves, all ornamented with volutes, and chlamys richly embroidered with stars and other patterns, in left hand two spears, behind him a Boeotian shield decorated with Satyric mask with short curls and protruding tongue. On the left is Ajax, seated, similarly attired and equipped; each stretches out right hand to a table between them, on which six pessi are visible; Achilles holds another between his fingers. (b) Heracles and the Nemean lion: He is nude and bearded, with curly hair and fillet, and kneels on both knees, holding the lion head downwards over his left shoulder, right hand grasping its forepaws, while its hind-claws are inserted in his right shoulder; he is about to fling it on the ground with his left arm. On the left is Athene to right, with long tresses, high-crested helmet with fillet, ornamented with volutes, and chevron-pattern round crest, aegis with scales, and fringe of snakes in front, long diapered chiton, in right hand a spear, left extended to Heracles. On the right is Iolaos to right, looking back, nude and bearded, with curly hair and fillet, sword at side, in right hand Heracles' club. --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
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- Pottery: 'bilingual' eye cup. Outline of hair incised throughout exterior scenes: purple wreaths and tails of Seileni; no traces of inner markings, except on forehead of figure in exterior (a). Interior, black-figure: exterior, red-figure. On each side of each handle a large palmette. Interior: Youth (wreathed, with short chiton, chlamys with white patterns) holding two spears, riding to right. Exterior: (a) Between eyes, Seilenos (wreathed with ivy, ithyphallic) holding in right hand keras, on left pelta attached to a cord over his right shoulder, striding in crouching attitude to right. (b) Between eyes, similar figure, holding in left a fluted trefoil oinochoe, blowing a trumpet which he holds in right, and which is attached to a phorbeia (chin strap) over his mouth: on left pelta as in (a). He runs to right, looking back. --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
3. Bilingual
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- Pottery: 'bilingual' eye cup. Outline of hair incised throughout exterior scenes: purple wreaths and tails of Seileni; no traces of inner markings, except on forehead of figure in exterior (a). Interior, black-figure: exterior, red-figure. On each side of each handle a large palmette. Interior: Youth (wreathed, with short chiton, chlamys with white patterns) holding two spears, riding to right. Exterior: (a) Between eyes, Seilenos (wreathed with ivy, ithyphallic) holding in right hand keras, on left pelta attached to a cord over his right shoulder, striding in crouching attitude to right. (b) Between eyes, similar figure, holding in left a fluted trefoil oinochoe, blowing a trumpet which he holds in right, and which is attached to a phorbeia (chin strap) over his mouth: on left pelta as in (a). He runs to right, looking back. --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
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- In top-left is a Red-figure Plate, Vase E135 by Epiktetos, created ca. 520-510 BCE and measuring 19.5 cm in diameter and 1.905 cm in height. Vase is listed under Repository ID: 1837,0609.59. Athenian red-figured plate: a single figure in oriental costume - trousers ('anaxyrides'), tight-fitting sleeved coat ('kandys') and soft skin hat ('kidaris') with long ear-flaps hanging down - fills the circular field of this plate. This outfit, which resembles the Median costume, was most commonly used in Athenian art for Scythians, but since the figure is not bearded, it is most likely in this case to be intended to depict an Amazon archer. Later representations of Persians, Scythians and Amazons lose much of their individual identity. She draws an arrow from her quiver (here a 'gorytos') as she turns back to shoot at the enemy, her composite bow at the ready in her left hand. Signed by Epiktetos as painter.--The British Museum; In top-right is a Black-figure Pinax, Vase B591 attributed to Psiax, created ca. 520-500 BCE, and measuring 19.05 cm in diameter. Vase is listed under Repository ID: 1867,0508.941. Pottery: black-figured pinax (plate). Late style; occasional accessories of white and purple. An archer to left, beardless, with hair curly in front, earrings, high peaked cap, and jerkin and anaxyrides in one piece, stippled all over, with a guilloche pattern down the legs; at his side, his bow and quiver, the latter ornamented with guilloche pattern, with open lid in the form of a wing; he is blowing a trumpet (salpinx) with a phorbeia (chinstrap).--The British Museum (top right); In bottom right is a Black-figure Pinax, Old Catalogue 698, Vase B589 attributed to Psiax, created ca. 520-500 BCE, and measuring 21.59 cm in diameter. Vase is listed under Repository ID: 1837,0609.31., Beazley, J D, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963; Curtis, J E; Tallis, N, Forgotten Empire: The world of Ancient Persia, London, BMP, 2005; Walters, H B; Forsdyke, E J; Smith, C H, Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum, I-IV, London, BMP, 1893; Allen, Lindsay, The Persian Empire: A History, London, BMP, 2005