GREEK AJfD ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. 63 



YL— Pottery. 



1. Oinochoe of red ware, with grotesque figure of a boy- 

 seated on a fish and rowing with two oars, painted in blue 

 and pink ; Graeco-Egyptian fabric. Egypt. 



2. Phiale of black glazed ware with bust of Maenad in high 

 relief in the centre, wearing ivy-wreath. Found in a tomb 

 at Elis, with the bronze mirror-case having a horseman in 

 relief already noticed. 



3. Red-figured cantharos ; on either side a youth standing 

 by a sepulchral cippus. Inscribed PAANON lAIPE, 

 riAavwv (x)af|0£ ; and ATIA. 



4. A series of fraguients of Mycenaean vases with figures 

 o animals. From a Bronze-Age cemetery at Clavdia, near 

 Larnaca, Cyprus. 



5. Phiale of Athenian workmanship (fifth century B.C.), 

 with interior designs outlined in red on white ground ; on 

 the central boss a conventionalised Gorgoneion, wearing 

 earrings ; round this is represented a Gigantomachia, in 

 which Zeus, Athene, and Poseidon contend each with a giant; 

 the opponent of Zeus is triple-bodied ; Poseidon is accom- 

 panied by two seals, Zeus by his eagle, and Athene by a 

 serpent. Eretria (?). 



6. Red-figured stamnos of the finest period ; on the obverse, 

 a combat between a horseman and a foot-soldier; on the 

 reverse, two women pouring a libation for a bearded man. 

 From the Morrison Sale. 



7. Red-figured stamnos signed by the artist Polygnotos. 

 On the obveise is a youthful Heracles attacking the Centaur 

 Eurytion with his club ; on one side Dexamenos, on the other 

 Deianeira, looking on. On the reverse, three ephebi. In- 

 scribed : POVVANOTOZ EAPA'^EN BoXvyvwrog 'iypa^fv. 

 [Tyszkiewicz Coll. Sale Cat. pi. 14 ; Class. Review, 1898, 

 p. 424.] Sorrento. 



8. Red-figured crater signed on the foot by the artist 

 Nikias. On the obverse is figured a victory in the torch-race 

 at Athens, which started from the altar of Prometheus in the 

 Academy. The runners wear diadems on which are inscribed 

 the names of the tribes they represented in the race ; the 

 winner was of the tribe Antiochis. Beside the altar is a 

 priest : a Nike brings a fillet for the winner. The scene may 

 be either the beginning of the race, with a runner lighting 

 his torch, or it may be the end of the race, which also was 

 marked by an altar. On the leverse of the vase, three 

 ephebi. The inscription on the foot runs: NJK!AZE[PM] 



OKAEOY2:ANA<l>AVZTIOZEPO!EZEN,N(K/«c'E[/OiitioicAf'ouc 



Wva(j)\v(TTioc l-rroinrrev. [Tyszkiewicz Coll. pi. 35; Sale Cat. 

 pi. 2 ; Class. Review, 1898, p. 424 ] Athens. 



7-8. From the TyszhievAcz Collection. 



