66 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



horses ; in the background is a tree. On the vase is incised : 

 KAVOZ KAPVXtlOS, K-aXoc Kapvanog ; ZMIKPjON 

 KAVOZ, ^iiiKpiuyv Ka\6q ; MOPWOX, Mi^pvXoQ. For the 

 subject compare Pindar, Pyth. ii. 22, 40 ; for the ku\6q name 

 Kapvanog, Klein, Lieblingsinschr., p. 49, and the vase B 195 in 

 the Brit. Mus. The drawing is slightly archaic, but excellent. 



2. Athenian white lekythos, with figure of Hermes Psycho- 

 pompos running to left, and looking back; he is bearded, 

 has wings on his heels, wears a chlamys, and carries a 

 caduceus. The figure is outlined in black, with details in 

 red, and pinkish brown for the chlamys ; it is inscribed 

 KAVOS. 



3. Athenian white lekythos, with a figure of a woman 

 standing by a stele and holding an obolos, representing 

 Charon's fee, for a youth seated opposite her ; in her left 

 hand is a helmet. (Compare Bull, de Corr. Hellenique^ 

 iv. p. 371.) Laurion. 



4. Red-figured crater of the best Greek period (end of 

 fifth century B.C.). On the obverse : two athletes boxing, 

 and a judge interrupting with his rod ; Nike stands by, with 

 a wreath, an oil-fiask and cushion are placed on a pillar. 

 On the reverse, three draped youths. 



5. Apulian amphora, with scroll-handles and double row 

 of figures. On the upper row : Obverse : Polymestor groping 

 his way after being blinded, in the presence of Hecuba, 

 Agamemnon, and two other figures. The subject is doubtless 

 borrowed from the stage, and corresponds to the Hecuba of 

 Euripides, 1035 flf. Reverse : courting scene between a young- 

 man and a girl. On the lower row : frieze of eight figures, 

 the subject being the bringing of off'erings at a stele. For 

 the shape of the vase, compare Brit. Mus Catalogue F 340- 

 341. It is published in the Monum. dell' Inst. ii. pi. 12 and 

 Annali, 1835, p. 222, and in Reinach's Repertoire des Vases, 

 i. p. 91 ; it was formerly in Naples, but had disappeared for 

 many years. 



6. Campanian bell-shaped crater. On the obverse : torch- 

 race between one mounted competitor and two on foot ; on 

 the reverse, three draped youths. 



7. Calenian phiale of black glazed ware ; in the centre a 

 relief of Ares and Aphrodite seated back to back. (Piot Coll. 

 Sale Cat. No. 194. Compare G 125-150 in Brit. Mus) 



8. Cotyle of green glazed ware, with festoons and masks 

 of bearded Satyrs in relief, the latter coloured pale yellow. 



9. i^.rchaic aryballos of glazed ware in the form of a head 

 of Heracles covered with the lion's skin. From Syria (?). 



10. Askos of green glazed ware. From Tkera. 



