Greek vases

42 CATALOGUE DU MUSEE DU CAIRE.
CoLOUR : Smoolh yellowish slip surface; black glaze.
Ornamentation : Wrealh round neck; dois round fool of neck. Wreath round shoulder,
Back.
similar to ihat on neck. On body, between
usual horizontal bands, designs as shown
in front and behind; vertical borders of
intersecting lines at each side of bandles.
Foot, rim and handles like n° 2G227 ff.
Preseuvation : Mouth
sealed up witb plas-
ler and contents intact; paint efTaced ail
over.
26238. Cinerary hydria. — lleiglit m. /ii5 luill.
Pugioli {[À. XVI ).
SuAPE : Vertical liandle round, with cross-piecc at lop.
Colour :
Orivamentation : Wreath
R.>d clay witli sniooth lighl-coloured slip-surface; black glaze.
Ak'xantlria, collection
round neck; row of dots abovc and anotlier round fool of
neck. Three dot-rosettes on shoulder. Semicircle of large dots round fool of handle,
and spray on each side. On body in front tvvo griffîns confronted, with forepaw
raised; rosette belween, dot-roselles in field, and ivy spray on right. Behind, pal-
melte and spiral designs as shown. Cross-hatched vertical borders on each side of
handles. Dol-roselte above either handle. Fool and rim as usual; lines down back
of handles, crossed in the middle by transverse bands; star on each end of cross-
piece; rosette round each end of horizontal handles.
Technique : GrilTins are drawn in outline.
Préservation : Long crack on one side of body; surface covered ail over with incrusta-
tion; paint much destroyed.
BiBL. : Journal d'entrée du Musée, u" 282/16; Irch. Anzeiger, 1902, p. i58, n° 9.