irwux /, no / l ' 00 MUSEUM OXONIENSE CATALOGUE OF THE GREEK VASES IN THE ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM MUSEUM OXONIENSE Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Ashmolean Museum By PERCY GARDNER, M.A., Litt.D. ©rforfc PRINTED AT THE CLARENDON PRESS J1Y HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY THE 60TY CENIkK LI&ftAXY PREFACE This is the first section of a projected publication, under the title of Museum Oxoniense, of the sculptures, inscriptions, bronzes, vases and other antiquities belonging to the University of Oxford, and now shortly to be brought, in consequence of Mr. Fortnum’s liberal benefaction, under one roof. The parts will be independent, by a variety of editors, and not necessarily uniform in plan. In making this catalogue of Greek vases I found that two courses were open to me : (i) To treat the collection as representative; (2) Merely to treat individual vases as interesting specimens of their classes, worth describing and publishing. Had I adopted the first course, I should have written a historical introduction, investi¬ gated the origin and character of each class of vases, and tried to fill up as far as possible the outlines of vase-history with specimens which would mark its successive features. Had the collection been sufficiently extensive and varied, this plan would have been the best. But the Ashmolean vases are comparatively so few and of so few classes as to render any complete or systematic treatment of vases by their aid unsatisfactory. Those who wish to study the history of vase-painting will use the great national collections, and their catalogues 1 are the basis on which new views must be built up. Thus I have been driven to the second alternative, and considered my duty limited to enabling scholars to discover what is interesting, and use what is important, in the ancient vases of the Ashmolean, with or without visiting the Museum. I have had the good fortune to secure the services of Mr. F. Anderson as artist; and it is his drawings, the fidelity and care of which can scarcely be praised too highly, which give most of its value to the present catalogue. They are reproduced in photo¬ lithography by Messrs. Meisenbach, Riffarth and Co., of Berlin. 1 The most important of vase-catalogues is that by Dr. Furtwangler of the Berlin Collection. The smaller catalogue by Dr. Masner of the Collection at Vienna is also in its way a model. A catalogue of the British Museum vases will shortly appear. Sketches of the history of vase-painting will be found in Rayet et Collignon's Histoire de la Ceramtque Grecque , the article Vasenkunde in Baumeister's Denkmaler, and the article Vas in Smith’s Dictionary of Antiquities (ed. 1890). b VI PREFACE. Working on these lines I have seen no object in inserting descriptions of ordinary vases of Rhodes and Corinth and Apulia such as every large collection possesses in abundance. 1 have only inserted in my pages a few of these as specimens. The Attic black and red-figured vases, on the other hand, I have described in full, without omitting any. Of the later merely decorative wares of lower Italy, I have inserted but a few. It is in fact subject rather than fabric and technical detail with which I have dealt. Prehistoric wares of the Cyprian, Etruscan and Island classes have also been excluded : they are best treated of in connexion with other kinds of prehistoric remains : the fact that they were produced in Greek lands does not, in the absence of Hellenic style, entitle them to be separated from kindred works of other parts of the world. The spelling of Greek words in English must always be a difficulty, and involves inconsistency. I have preferred to use Latinized forms, except in the names of forms of vases, such as kylix and lekythos. The size of each vase is given in metres. Mr. Evans has read the proofs of this work, and inserted some useful notes. 1 have also to thank Mr. G. C. Richards, Mr. H. Stuart Jones and others for help and suggestions. The Vases in the Ashmolean have been partly acquired by purchase, partly presented by successive donors. Of those acquired by purchase the most important groups are (x) a series of eighty-eight vases bought by the University from Signor Castellani, of which a Catalogue by Mr. W. S. W, Vaux was published in 1876. (2) A series of Vases from the site of Gela (Terranova, Sicily), acquired by the Keeper, Mr. Arthur J. Evans, during successive visits to the site. Others, from the same source, are among those presented. The principal donors of vases to the Museum are :— Mr. John Henderson, M.A., Balliol College (who left his collection of 131 vases in 1879). The Cyprus Exploration Fund. The Christy Trustees. The Rev. G revii.le J. Chester. Mr. C. D. E. Fortnuii, D.C.L. Mr. Charles J. Longman. Mr. Arthur J. Evans. PERCY GARDNER. THE VASES FROM GELA. NOTE BY THE KEEPER (Arthur J. Evans). The vases in the Ashmolean Collection from the site of Gela are all from the hill known as the Costa della Zampogna, which branches out of the main height on which Gela stood, behind its original akropolis of Lindioi. It is here that the Campagna of Scicalone excavated by Dennis is situate. The tombs occur from the N.W. point of this hill to the mediaeval walls of Terranova, some being found in the present Borgo or Suburb. The cemetery further extends down the hill to the line of the new railway from Terranova to Licata, but here the tombs are of a poorer class. The Ashmolean vases were obtained by me on the spot in the course of repeated visits to Terranova. They are mostly from the properties of Signors Russo, Emmanuele Lauricella, and Aldisio Saunito. The chronological limits of the Greek interments lie between the year 589 b.c., the date of the foundation of the city by Antiphemos of Lindos in Rhodes and Entimos of Crete, and 405 b.c., when Gela was taken by the Carthaginians, and the remnant of the inhabitants transferred to Leontinoi. The town indeed survived as a shadow of itself— with a short interval of recovery due to its restoration by Timoleon—till the date of its final destruction by the Mamertines in 284 b.c., and the settlement of the homeless survivors four years later by the Tyrant Phintias of Akragas at the new city named after himself at the mouth of the Himeras, the site of which is occupied by the modern Licata. In the tombs themselves, however, there is an abrupt break, due to the Cartha¬ ginian capture of 405 b.c., and only one interment,—a cremation pit,—containing a vase of distinctly later style has come under my own notice. The earlier graves (of the b. 1 . period) contain without exception skeleton interments. The most typical form of grave is a terracotta cist, with the roof slabs arranged so as to form a gable, and a tile floor. At a later date the cover is sometimes vaulted and made in only two pieces, and graves of this class contain the more important relics (r. f. style). In other cases the cists are of limestone or gypsum. b 2 INTRODUCTORY NOTE. The annexed woodcut shows the typical arrangement of the commoner kind of grave (b. f. style). Corinthian aryballoi are also common in such graves. jj LEKYTHOS A LAB ASTAON Ordinary grave, Gela. Above these graves were often found two perforated disks of terracotta with a Medusa’s head in relief. The discovery of such a disk was regarded by the scavatori as a sign of the presence of a grave. Some of the more important b. f. tombs are chambers with a vaulted cement roof. In one of these vaults, containing a skeleton interment and of oval form, I found the amphora with the story of Herakles and 1 Cacus.’ Near it were the fragmentary remains of a vessel of the same form—such amphoras being always found here in pairs. Unfortunately part of the grave had been disturbed. During the red-figure period cremation pits become frequent. Sometimes the vases are simply placed above the pyre-ashes and bones which lie at the bottom of the round pits. Sometimes the bones are collected in the principal vase. The large krater, No. 291 (Nike holding tripod), belonged to an inter¬ ment of the latter class. It was em- // ®^\ bedded in pyre earth (‘rogo’) and contained the burnt bones. A rough W- WWJ bowl-shaped dish like a so-called ‘ mortarium ’ formed its cover. _ — Beside this r. f. krater were found two lekythoi, with black figures on a pale yellowish white ground (one of these is No. 246). Vases with pale yellow ground and black figures (as above) have also been found in other graves of this class. I excavated a lekythos of this kind with a black and white female figure on a pale yellow ground and the ornament figured below (black on the red clay of the vase) round the shoulder, in a grave-pit containing pyre earth. The lekythos rested on a heap of cremated bones, amongst which those m of the skull were conspicuous. The finest graves of the red-figure period contain limestone and terracotta, sarcophagi and cremated remains. The burnt bones are usually placed in kraters covered with a shallow vessel, often of ' rustic ’ manufacture. Two small lekythoi and an alabastron are often placed in the krater with the bones : and other vases are set out in the cist beside the ossuary. The best white lekythoi occur in tombs of this class. The finest day in Sicily is found within or on the borders of the old Geldan territory —in the neighbourhood, namely, of Caltagirone, where the well-known terracotta figures are still made. Siculo-Moresque vases are also said to have been manufactured in this INTRODUCTORY NOTE. IX district. Remembering therefore the traditions of Ceramic manufactures that the original Rhodian Colonists brought with them, there is at least a strong a priori probability that many of the vases and terracottas from the site of Gela are of the local manufacture. The extraordinary Ceramic adornment of the Geloan treasury at Olympia also points to the same conclusion, and the occurrence of specially Sicilian subjects on some of the vases, e. g. Herakles of the Kerkopes, Herakles and ‘Cacus,’ Persephone and Hades, must at least be regarded as a suggestive phenomenon. In the red-figure vases again we cannot help observing the great preponderance of subjects representing floating winged figures of a type closely akin to those that appear on Sicilian coins of the same period, notably on those of Kamarina and Himera. The percentage of such vases from the Geloan tombs is very large. The comparative abundance of lekythoi, with a white ground and outline figures, is another marked figure of these interments. These vases, both in their pale yellowish ground colour, the better glaze of their surface, the character of the subjects, and the comparative frequency of inscriptions, are altogether different from the typical fabric of the sepulchral lekythoi of Athenian tombs. Here in place of funeral subjects we find more cheerful subjects,—for the most part Muses and toilet scenes. It is perhaps worth observing that the ‘ Lieblingsname ’ Timokrates, elsewhere unknown, occurs on two vases found at Gela—one, the white lekythos, No. 267, the other a vase with the same shoulder ornament (‘dreigliedrige Palmette roth auf schwarz’—Klein, Gr. V. mit Lieblingsinschriften, p. 77) in a private collection at Terranova. A clear indication of local fabric seems also to be supplied by a comparison of a large number of b. f. vases found on this site with those recently excavated at the Hyblaean Megara. The Geloan vases for instance, as a general rule, present a pale or yellowish ground and a border of anthemia, or a border characteristic of the early vases of Kamejros. The b. f. vases of Megara have a bright reddish ground and often show a border of palmettes alternating with Sphinxes, the palmette being further associated with small dotted circles. The proportion of the vases and their whole facies is different. CONTENTS. PAGE Preface . v Introductory Note on the Vases from Gela, by A. J. Evans .vii I. Earliest Classes: (а) Mycenaean Vases.i (0) Geometric Vases : Athens.2 (y) Geometric Vases : Rhodes.2 (8) Geometric Vases: Cyprus . 3 (e) Italian Geometric Vases.3 (f) Early : Corinth or Athens.4 ( 11) Rhodian : Orientalizing.4 (б) Corinthian Ware.4 (t) Cyrenaic Ware.5 (/c) Naucratite Ware.5 (A) Early Attic.5 (n) Early Italian Imitations, &c..6 (v) Etruscan Black Ware (Bucchero).7 II. Black-Figured Vases: (а) Amphorae.8 (0) Hydriae.13 (y) Oenochoae.13 (3) Kylikes.14 (f) Cups . . 16 (£) Lekythi.. • .16 (jj) Miscellaneous.18 (б) Theban Ware.18 III. Attic Vases with White Ground.20 IV. Red-Figured Vases.».22 (n) Nolan Amphorae, &c.23 (0) Kraters, &c.26 (y) Hydriae.• 27 (3) Oenochoae ..28 (?) Kylikes and Pinax.28 (C) Lekythi.31 (jj) Miscellaneous.33 V. Moulded Forms: (a) Human and Animal Forms.34 (/3) Lustrous Black Ware.34 VI. South Italian Vases.36 (a) Vases of Various Districts.36 (#) Apulian Red-figured Vases.38 (y) Vases with designs in white, red, and yellow.40 Index I. Inscriptions.41 Index II. Subjects.42 Reference from plates to text.43 CATALOGUE OF GREEK VASES. I. EARLIEST CLASSES. Fig. i. Pattern from Rhodian pinax (No. 92). (a) Mycenaean Vases. This name is applied to the vases in use in Greece and in the Greek Islands between the years b. c. 1600 and 900 or thereabouts, because the most noteworthy specimens were discovered in Dr. Schliemann’s excavations at Mycenae. They are relics of a civilization in some respects highty developed, and widely spread over the shores of the Aegean, and now generally regarded as Achaean. They are also found in Egyptian tombs of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth Dy¬ nasties. See Petrie in Journ. Hell. Stud. vol. xi. and Illaliun , Kahun and Gurob. The vases of this class are collected by Furt- wangler and Loschcke in their Mykenische Vascn and Mykenische Thongefdsse: many of them are figured also in Schliemann’s Mycenae. The specimens in the Ashmolean Museum are representative, and some are of exceptional im¬ portance from the circumstances of their dis¬ covery : among them are— 1 . False-necked vase (Biigelkanne). Height M. .11. Simple design of bands round vase. From Abydos in Egypt. Presented (with 2) by Professor Sayce. 3 a,b,c. False-necked vases from deposit of Amenhotep Ill’s time (c. 1400 b.c.) at Gurob, Egypt. Petrie, llla- hun , Kahun and Gurob, p. 17, pi. xvii, 3. 4 a,b. Fragments of false-necked vases (similar to 3) found with Egyptian vessels and figure of Bast, &c. in tomb of the end of the eighteenth Dynasty (c. 1350 b.c.). Excavated by Mr. Petrie at Kahun. Presented by Mr. H. Martyn Kennard. 5 . Similar, from the Fayoum. Presented by Mr. Greville J. Chester. 6 a, b. False-necked vases with dull surface, of local Cy¬ priote clay: red ornaments on white ground. Found in tomb, Kuklia (Paphos), with two gold fibulae of primi¬ tive form : prototype of Dipylon class. Presented by Cyprus Exploration Fund, 1888. 7 . Similar, plain yellow zones on dull surface (? Cypriote fabric) from Deposit III, Kahun, eighteenth to nine¬ teenth Dynasty. Excavated and presented by Mr. W. M. Flinders Petrie. (The local Egyptian imitations of these false-necked vases in black bucchero, and others in alabaster, are reserved for the Egyptian Catalogue.) 8. Flat vase with one handle and wide mouth. Diameter M. .10. Design in red on pale ground : Ivy-like leaves on long double stalks, identical with those on vase of Acro¬ polis Grave I., Mycenae. From Kahun in Egypt. Found by Mr. Petrie in a tomb containing Egyptian objects of about b.c. 1100. Journ. Hell. Stud. xi. pi. 14, 1, p. 273. 9 , 10 . Three-handled vases ; one from Ialysus in Rhodes, Biliotti, the other bequeathed by Mr. J. W. Flower. 11 , 12 . Tall two-handled cups. Height M. .18. Adorned with spirals and other patterns, and n with marine animals. From Mr. Biliotti's excavations at Ialysus in Rhodes. CATALOGUE OF GREEK VASES. 13 a, b, One-handled drinking vessels, one adorned with shell-fish (?). Ialysus, Biliotti. 14. Two-handled vase with cuttle-fish. Ialysus, Biliotti. 19. Oenochoe, mouth trefoil. Height M. -12. Decoration, stag looking back, triangles, zigzags. Found at Phalerum. 20. Oenochoe, mouth trefoil. Height M. .12. Decoration, curls, zigzags, &c.: bands of red, adorned with dotted circles of white : line of bar pattern, red and black alternating. Found at Phalerum. 21-23. Same class and provenience. Fig. 2 (No. 11). A number of fragments from Mycenae (15 a-g ) and one from Acropolis-site, Orchomenus (16), were presented by Dr. Schliemann. (B) Geometric Vases : Athens. The Athenian vases adorned with geometrical patterns are probably the earliest class of distinctly Hellenic vases. . In some cases their subjects have considerable interest in illustration of early Greek manners and customs. Their date reaches from the ninth century to the seventh. Their forms, though peculiar to the class, yet show an approach to the ware of historic times. These vases fall into two classes. The older are called Dipylon ware, because mostly found in the Athenian cemetery outside the Dipylon gate. The later are called Phaleron ware, also from their provenience ; in them an increasing oriental in¬ fluence is visible in the introduction of lions, lotus patterns, See. The first of the vases described below belongs to the Dipylon class, the rest to the Phaleron class. 17. Small amphora with long neck. Height M. 20. Handles in form of head of ibex, with long horns, the ends of which return to the vase. In compartments on neck and body of vase, stags feed¬ ing. Athens: presented by G. C. Richards, H. Stuart Jones, and J. G. Milne of the British School of Athens, 1891. 18. Oenochoe, mouth trefoil. Height M. .17. Decoration, spirals, curls, lozenges. Found at Phalerum , bought 1877 with following. (y) Geometric Vases : Rhodes. These vases closely resemble the kindred class from Athens: but the devices are simpler and more conventional. In Rhodes they appear to belong to the time between that of the Mycenaean vases of Ialysus, and that of the true Rhodian oriental¬ izing ware (class j/). 24. Lebes with foot. Height M. .36. Supports from top of handles to mouth of lebes. On either side of vase, oblong containing large maeander pattern. 25. Cup with high flat handles. Height M. .18 to top of handles. In the midst patterns of zigzags and maeanders; on each side two swans, one above the other. Biliotti, from Siana. Fig. 5 1, No. 26). 26. Two-handled cup. Height M. .10. Above, line of swans ; then zigzags and swans; then another line of swans; below circles with tangents. Biliotti. I. EARLIEST CLASSES. 3 27. Two-handled cup. Height M. .09. On each side, two swans facing one another; between them, zigzags. Christy Collection. The two vases following form a transition from the geometrical style at Rhodes to the later orientalizing style (class j?). Their decoration is monochrome, and composed mainly of geometric motives, but changes begin to appear. We may compare them with the Phaleron class at Athens. 28. Amphora. Height M. .30. Monochrome decoration: neck, maeander and line patterns: shoulder, lotus necklace: under handles palmette patterns: on either side of body, Hound galloping r., neck colour of vase, two legs only de¬ picted. Cameirus. 28 a. Amphora. Height M. 33. Monochrome decoration: neck, maeanders, zigzags : shoulder, line of ivy leaves : around body, pattern of scrolls and palmettes. Cameirus. (b) Geometric Vases: Cyprus. This ware is very abundant, and of all periods. At present the dates of the sub-classes are not Fig. 7 (No. 29). fixed, nor are we able to distinguish with certainty Phoenician from Greek ware. The various classes are well represented in the Oxford collection. Earliest is the black or red ware which bears for adornment a moulded imitation of string, or geo¬ metric figures in incised lines. This is succeeded by pale or red ware adorned with painted geometric patterns. In this class the Ashmolean Museum possesses a very remarkable vase, probably of Phoenician design, the most interesting Cyprian vase yet discovered :— 29. Barrel-shaped vase with protuberances at the ends, spout and one handle. Height M. .31. Design in red and brown on pale clay. Bands around neck. Side (a) Palmette pattern : on either side crested bird, holding lotus and supporting flower on head, and stag holding lotus. Side (0) Pattern of palmettes and flowers. End (y) Similar pattern : on either side, stag climb¬ ing up. End (8) Similar pattern : on one side, stag climbing up ; on the other, stag looking back. From Larnaca: published in the Joum. Hell. Stud. v. p. 102. Reproduced by permission of the Council of the Hellenic Society. The later ware, both red and pale, has often, in addition to the painted patterns, a spout at the side in the form either of a bull’s head (74-76) or of a moulded oenochoe (77-80), which is held by a female figure seated or standing on the shoulder of the vase. (e) Italian Geometric Vases. These vases are in the Berlin Catalogue by Furtwangler, and the Carlsruhe Catalogue by Winnefeld, placed for convenience among early Greek geometric vases. It is quite clear from some of the details of their decoration, flowers, dolphins, and the like, that they cannot belong to a really early time. Probably they immediately precede the Apulian red-figured vases of the Hel¬ lenistic age. I have however thought it best to keep them among the geometric ware, as other¬ wise they would interrupt the red-figured series. 81. Wide vase, with two handles and funnel-shaped mouth : on either side, between the handles, a human hand roughly modelled. Height M. -29. Decoration in thin brown lines inside mouth and out¬ side vase, waves, wreaths, maeanders, spirals, &c. Purchased 1877. Fig. 6 (No. 28 a). B 2 CATALOGUE OF GREEK VASES. 82. Amphora a colonnette; flat cups at top of handles. Height M. .24. Decoration, maeanders, zigzags, lines. 83. Two-handled vase, the handles high, with clay medal¬ lions at the joints. Height M. .29. Decoration, palmettes erect and reversed. Henderson Collection. F10. 8 ^No. S3). 84. Similar vase. Height M. 22. Decoration, inverted palmettes, conventional lily wreath. Purchased 1877. 85. Similar vase. Height M. 22. Decoration, lozenges, conventional flowers, zigzags. 86. Vessel with two handles below and three mouths above, the middle one larger, one of the others filled with strainer. Height M. .42. Decoration, waves, wreaths, maeanders, dolphin. Castellani Collection, No. 21. 87. Similar vessel. Height M. -17. Decoration, waves, floral ornaments, dolphins. Castellani, No. 19. 88. Phiale of pale clay. Diameter M. .20. Decoration, wreaths of ivy and laurel, maeanders. Castellani, No. 20. Pierced for suspension. (C) Early: Corinth or Athens. These vases have been somewhat awkwardly termed proto-Corinthian. Their decoration con¬ sists usually of rows of running animals. They are common in the earliest Greek tombs of Sicily, and so date back to the eighth or seventh century. 89. Small lekythos. Height M. 06. Two lines of dogs, running. Henderson. 90. Long aryballos. Height M. .12. Two lines of dogs running: bands of red. The Piraeus, Athens , 1880. 91. Long aryballos with flat bottom. Height M. .15. Line of dogs running : bands of red. Orvieto, 1888. (>?) Rhodian : Orientalizing. These vases come in great numbers from graves at Cameirus. They show the results of a wave of oriental influence which passed over Greece in the eighth and seventh centuries, and very rarely have subjects from Greek legend. Their decoration consists mainly of lions, sphinxes, and other wild animals and monsters, with the lotus, the palmette, and the rosette. Their date is fixed by the dis¬ coveries at Naucratis, a city founded probably about b. c. 660, where vases of this class were abundant. 92. Pinax on stand. Diameter M. .26. In the midst flower, round it maeander, and around that lotus flowers and buds. (Fig. i.) Henderson. From Cameirus in Rhodes. 93. Pinax on stand. Diameter M. .35. As last. Henderson. Cameirus. 94. Pinax. Diameter M. 20. Depressed ring in the middle : around it, ivy wreath. Pierced for suspension. Henderson. Cameirus. 95. Pinax. Diameter M. .29. Sphinx walking to 1. in red and black ; in field usual Rhodian patterns ; below, pattern of red and black bars- Cameirus. Biliotti. 96. Pinax. Diameter M. .30. Similar; spiral rising from head of Sphinx. Castellani, 5. Cameirus. 96 a-f belong to the same class. ( 6 ) Corinthian Ware. The Corinthian ware is well represented in all collections, being found in abundance in early graves in Greece, Italy, and Sicily. The style of decoration resembles that of Cameirus, but is more careless. The Corinthian vases at the Ashmolean Museum are of the usual character—oenochoae surrounded by bands of animals and flowers; aryballi round or elongated, painted with proces¬ sions of warriors, griffins, lions, ox-heads, sphinxes, I. EARLIEST CLASSES. flowers, &c. There are also unguent vases of small size (alabastra) moulded in various forms; female busts, helmeted heads, rabbits, apes, doves, ducks, shells, rams’ heads, horses, tortoises, and pigs. The most interesting of these vases is a large aryballos, from Enna, possibly of Sicilian manufacture. 97. Circular aryballos. Height M. .13. Round neck, line of bars. In front, head of bearded warrior r. wearing crested helmet, between a pair of swans facing one another. Black colour only visible, but the surface is much decayed. From Caltascibelta, near Enna in Sicily. Given by the Keeper, 1888. Fig. 9 (No. 97). 98-184 also belong to this class. 98-105 b are from Cameirus. ( 1 ) Cyrenaic Ware. This is a somewhat rare and distinctive class of vases, found mostly in Italy. They are discussed and many of them figured in the Archdol. Zeitung for 1882. They were originally attributed to Cyrene on account of the type of one of them, a king Arcesilaus weighing wool for taxes, this being a name borne by several early kings of Cyrene. The attribution has been confirmed by the discovery of specimens at Naucratis; see Naukratis, i. 53; ii. 43. From Naucratis comes the only vase of this class in the Ashmolean col¬ lection. 185. Kylix. Diameter M. 26. Design : Interior, alternate rows of bar ornament and the usual Cyrenaic lotus. Exterior, lines of bars and rays. The handles flanked with palmettes. Naucratis. Presented by the Egypt Exploration Fund. (k) Naucratite Ware. Only fragments of this ware (Nos. 186-188) are in the collection, presented by the Egypt Explora¬ tion Fund. As to the differences between the vases of Naucratis and those of Rhodes, s eejouni. Hell. Stud. viii. 119 (E. A. Gardner). Among the fragments from Naucratis, besides the local ware, there are noticeable a piece of a Cyrenaic vase and a fragment (186 o) of black ware of Lesbos (Nait- kratis, ii. 47). In several cases the sherds bear fragmentary inscriptions recording dedications to Aphrodite and other deities. 1866 bears the in¬ scription AepKij? [dee0i]ic]ei/ tj} ’A[0po8tVp ( Naukratis , ii. 64, No. 751). On Naucratite fragments are figured several heads of sphinxes, one of a bearded man, &c. Nos. 186 a-p are from the Temple of Aphrodite ; 187 a-d from the Temple of the Dioscuri; 188^ -0 not specified. (a) Early Attic. 189. Cup of Oecopheles. (PI. 26.) Diameter M. .12. Designs in black, white, and red. In the midst bearded Gorgoneion. Around, (1) Herakles pursuing Centaur : Herakles clad in lion’s skin, hold¬ ing sword in r., the Centaur looking back and holding stone in both hands. (2) Hare-hunt. Youth holding sword and chlamys, ac¬ companied by dog, pursuing a hare into a net, behind which stands a youth clad in a chlamys and holding staff in raised r. hand; above hare, swan flying. (3) Sphinx seated r. looking 1.; two wreaths hung above. (4) Dance of Satyr and Nymph. Nymph clad in long chiton ; Satyr precedes her : above, garments ? hang¬ ing. Around the edge, in compartments, 'Eietpapevaev ipt OiK<0(j)e\T)s OiKoXp(t)\ris(t) ep' eypa(e)