192 Field Museum of Natural History — Anth., Vol. VII. 



mentioned. Its presence is in accordance with the Attic custom as 

 exemplified in various Attic grave-stelae. 1 This band serves also as 

 a transitional motive between the mask and the back of the handle, 

 as may be seen more clearly in the handle of a bronze vase in Karls- 

 ruhe. 2 



The ornamentation of the back of the handle divides at the lower 

 end above the attachment into three spreading leaf ends. 3 At the 

 top there is a spray of three berries and two groups of three leaves 

 each, probably of the laurel, pointing downward. 4 



Immediately beneath the laurel-spray there is a bird with long 

 beak pointed upward 5 obliquely to the right, high pointed wing and 

 long legs. It is the bird of the silver cup, No. 13 of the Boscoreale 

 treasure, 6 and is probably to be regarded as a heron, 7 or a stork. 



Height (extreme), m. 0.167 ( =6.57 in.); height of body of vase, m. 0.128 ( = 5.04 

 in.); height of neck, m. 0.035 ( — I -37 m -)- Diameter, m. 0.109 (=4- 2 9 in-); diameter 

 of base, m. 0.057 ( = 2.24 in.); diameter of neck in center, m. 0.0515 ( = 2.02 in.). 

 Thickness (average of neck), about m. 0.0035. Height of handle above body of 

 vase, m. 0.042 ( = 1.65 in.). 



BRONZE PITCHER. 24409. [Plates CXLV-CXLVIL] 



Pitcher or ewer 8 found in a bedroom (cubiculum L) of Villa I, 

 lying on the floor. 9 It is in poor condition. One side is not quite 

 complete, having been restored from fragments. The sides are cor- 

 roded through, and the entire vase is heavily oxidized in dark green 

 and blue. Handle and vase were cast separately. 



The rather full body, with the greatest diameter at about half the 

 height, passes to shoulder and wide neck by a continuous concave curve. 

 There is a low base, the underside of which is ornamented with con- 

 centric circles turned on a lathe. The wide horizontal lip is orna- 

 mented near the outer edge with a narrow band which has a groove 

 at either side, and near the inner edge with a single groove. On the 

 inside of the mouth near the top there is a slight encircling ridge or 

 seam. 



1 E. g., Conze, Die attischen Grabreliefs, ii, plate 161. 



2 Schumacher, Be.schreibung d. Samtnl. anliker Bronzen, No. 611, plate xi. II. 

 1 Cf. Schreiber, Alexand. Toreutik, pp. 376 ff. 



• Similar motive but different plant, Schreiber, op. cil. p. 345, (fig. 84/3). Cf. ibid. p. 371, Xo. 145 Q. 

 "Lorbeerzweig mit Fruchten," and the silver vase from Hildesheim, Pernice and Winter, Hildes- 

 heimer Silberfund, plate 9. 



• Cf. the bronze figurine in Cologne, Reinach, Rep. de la slat. Vol. iii. p. 224, No. 4. 



• Villefosse, op. cil. 



7 Zahn, in Priene, p. 417, note. 



8 ' 'Grande vaso da mescere con collo a tronco di cono e con ansa fusa nella cui estremita inferiore 

 sono rappresentati a basso rilievo due galli combattenti." Pasqui, op. cil. col. 433, b.; fig. 25 (cOl. 432). 



» "Poco distante dall'angolo destro della porta," Pasqui, ibid. 



