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Boreas and Oreithyia on a late Attic Vase

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Extract

The vase which is the subject of the present paper was acquired a few years ago in Italy for the Ashmolean Museum. The find spot was given as Capua.

The vase is a bell-krater, in height 20⅝ in. (m ·523) in diameter 19⅝ in. (m ·498). There is a wreath above, and a line of maeander pattern beneath the figures. The sides of the vase have a decoration of unusual richness. An elaborate pattern of palmettes rises to the handles, the roots of which are surrounded by the so-called egg-moulding (Eierstab). The reverse type is one of the conventional groups usual in this class of vases. Three youths, their long hair bound with wreaths (white), and wrapped in himatia, are standing together in a building which is indicated by a column rising in the midst. In the back-ground are hung up two square frames (dedications?); two tall curved leaves like notes of interrogation rise from the ground.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1898

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