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FRESCO. 24650. [Plate CXXV.] 



Decorative compartment with representation of vases and palm- 

 branches. 



On a yellow background, which shows also at the top and on the 

 left edge, there is painted a border in dark red, with a narrow white 

 edge both inside and outside. In the lower part of the interior there 

 is a dark red horizontal band with trimming of white on the under side. 

 The left end is oblique, the other appears always to have been irregular. 

 This band represents a surface like a board without means of support. 



On and back of this basis there are various objects. At the left is 

 a sort of jar with base, wide lip and short neck, painted in dark brown 

 streaked with black and whitish to represent a metal surface played 

 upon by the light. There are two whitish bands in the center, and one 

 in the lower part, which are to be regarded as raised above the adjacent 

 parts. At the beginning of the shoulder there is, on the left, a ring- 

 handle with ornamental attachment, and opposite to it, on the right, a 

 high U-shaped handle curving inward. It also has an ornamental at- 

 tachment, but of a different character. On the left side of the lower 

 part of the body there is a projecting head like that of a horse, to which 

 nothing on the opposite side corresponds. 1 Against the front of this 

 vase a long palm branch is tilted, the leafy part downwards. 2 On the 

 stem there is a festoon of ribbon. Branch and festoons are in white and 

 brown. Back of the branch a ribbon attached to the left handle is 

 faintly drawn in white. 



About in the middle of the basis stands a second vase with flaring 

 sides and high base. It has a bail-handle at the top, and U-shaped 

 handles with projecting ornament on the lower part of the body, one 

 on each side. The vase is of dark color, like that which precedes, 

 with two stripes of white around the center and two around the lower 

 part. 3 Against the back of the vase is tilted a palm branch, the leafy 

 part upwards. A brown and white ribbon is attached to the stem. 



The third vase, which stands at some distance to the right, is shaped 

 somewhat like the vase first described, but the shoulder is steeper, and 

 the neck and mouth narrower. The base is not well preserved. At 

 the top there is a bail-handle. At the beginning of the shoulder there 

 are very probable traces of U-shaped handles. The brown left handle, 

 which has a long recurved ornament on the outer side, runs to a pointed 



1 Cf. jar with serpent on one side and human mask on the other side, but lower down, represented 

 in a fresco from Pompeii. Zahn, Die schoensten Ornamente, etc. Vol. iii, plate so. 



* For other examples of palm branch leaning against vase cf . Roux, op. cit. Vol. i, plate 20 (pitcher) , 

 iv. us (bowl), v. 37 (jar), all representations in fresco. 



• With this vase cf. the suspended crater, Roux, op. cit. Vol. iii, plate 139 (painted panel). 



