Greek vases

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painled over whitc; below, lianging grape-bunches and serpentine lendriis in while
partly covered with yellow. Belween liandles on thc other side, double row of small
leaves in white. Red coat with bands of black round foot and on base.
Préservation' : End
of one handle broken o(T; rim sbghtiy chipped and incrusled.
BiBi.. : Maspero. Sllp-Calalogue , n" Gi3/i.
26223. Fragment of «Gnathia» ware. — Lenglh o m. 06 cent. (pi. \11I).
SiiAi'E : Froni rim of a cup.
CoLOUR AND oRNAMENTATioN : Light-coloufed clay covered with biack glaze. Below rim,
between Iwo impressed lines, a branch or bush in yellow over white and part of
anolher object in while with yellow lines (hinder half of a bird?); narrow band of
white (and yellow?) below. Below, vertical flutings.
Cinerary hydria. — Heiglit m. 3 9 cent. — Alexandria, collection
Piigioli (pi. XIV).
Shape : See illustration; vertical handle is flat with ridge dovvn middle of back.
CoLOUR : Red clay with yellowish white slip-surface more or less reddened in the firing;
black glaze, not very lustrous, changing to brown where less fhickly applied;
accessory white.
Ornamentation : Wreath
to left belween Iwo lines round middle of nock; band round
foot of neck ; dots and radiating petals round top of shoulder. The main field
of décoration on body is bordered above and below by bands of black and
white, the while being applied direclly upon the ground-colour; in front is a
winged Victory between two tripods, stepping lo left and holding up a diadem in
her righl band; she wears chiton with girdle over npoplijgma; bordered by vertical
cross-halched bands. On the other side, between similar borders, is a large erect
palmelte with inward-curving branches, with long branching sprays on each side,
ending in small palmettes and fruits (?). Bands round foot. Broad band inside
moulh. Chevrons belween vertical lines dovvn .
back of vertical handle. K/\ A / \ V\^
Inscription on shoulder, in front, incised: / \ / \ /^ v
Tecunique : Inner markings incised on the Victory and tripods. Outlines of one tnpod
hâve been impressed in the damp clay before painling. The drapery is painled with
a few slrokes.
Préservation : One of horizontal handlos glued on; foot mended: surface chipped and
discoloured.
BiBL. : Journal d'entrée du Musée, n° 28236; Arch. Anzeiger, 1903, p. i58, 11° .3.