Greek vases

84 CATALOGUE DU MUSEE DU CAIRE.
Technique : The figures are in silhouelle. Their oullines (excepl hère and ihere) and
the inner markings are incised. The iloral and maeander pallerns merely painted,
parlly in silhouette, partly in oulline. No accessory coiours. The neck lias been
mended in ancienl times wilh h'ad rivets.
Préservation : Put together out of many fragments, a great deal slill wanting. Surface
discoloured in places.
BiBL. : Journal iVcnlrée du Musée, n° 08989; A rchùoloj'ischer Ameiger, 1901. p. h-j.
32378. Red-figured crater. — Heiglit o m. 5^ cent., hreaillh o m. 'i i cent.
— Saqqarah, from the excavations of Quihell, 1907 (pi. XI).
Shape : See pi. \I. There was of course a foot, and an arching handle on eacli shoulder.
CoLoiR :
Red clay and black glazc
Ornamentation : Painted in comparalively free style, the eyes of the figures heing cor-
reclly rendered in profile.
Inside black, top of rim red. Round outside of rim a maeander pattern with a x
betueen each three maeanders. Round upper part of neck, betvveen handles, 1° on
one side lotus and palmetfe patlern wilh e^g and dot border below, 2" on the other
side a pattern of palmettes laid horizontally back to back with egg and dot border
below; red space left on each side betvveen thèse two patterns. The upper part of
neck is separated by a slight moulding from the lower part, which is glazed black.
Round top of shoulder on each side, above the heads of the figures, tongue pattern,
and below their feet a maeander pattern with a cross between each three maeanders,
+ on one side and x on ihe other. Rays round foot of body. Tongue pattern round
ends of handles.
The scène round the body of the vase is ihe return of Hephaislos. At the right end of
the scène Hera sits to left on a throne, holding out a paiera in her right hand and
with a sceptre resting in her left. She wears a high turreted crown adorned wilh figu-
res, a sleeved chifon covered with V- shaped marks, with a border of dots round ihe
edges, and a himation over her shoulders. Her hair falls loose behind. The legs of
the throne hâve palmetle patterns and volutes at the top, the back ends above in a
floral ornament, and the seat is ornamented with a star and dotted bands. Hermès
approaches to right holding out kerykeion in left hand and pointing behind with bis
right. He bas a beard and long wavy hair wilh a band round head and a small
upright projection in front. A pelasos hangs behind bis neck, and he wears a short
chiton and chlamys, buckled on the right shoulder, and winged boots. Rehind bim
cornes a bearded Seilenos, infibulated, wilh tail and long ears, playing on a lyre
from which hangs a pièce of drapery ornamented wilh dots. He wears cothurns.
Rehind, on the other side of handle, comes Dionysos looking back and holding the
reins of an ithyphallic mule on Avhich Hephaislos is mounted. Dionysos bas a long
beard and long hair confined by a band with (lowing ends. He wears a long chiton