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70 THE ATTIC PVXIS SAllY RUTHERfURO ROBERTS
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The frieze represents three women approaching a door followed by
a flying Eros." The vase is unattributed. The painter is
contemporary with the Orollol Painter, but ahhough they use many
similar motifs their SI)'les ditfer markedly. A certain similarity may
be noted between the drallo'ing of the door on the Mississippi "ast
and Ihat of Munich 2720 by the Drouot Painter n (PI. 49.2).
Further. the drapery riStS up in a flounce from the heel of a
running woman in bOlh. but the Drouot Painter's women always
turn their heads 10 look back whence they came. The poncr's
signature on the limel of the door on the Mb.sissippi pyxis has
pro\'ed 10 be a modern forgel')'. JI
The pyxis. Ttibingen E 156 (no. 12). by the Aberdeen Painter has
been senrely damaged. The fOOl has been entirely reslored in
plaster and also the bottom of Ihe box. Two fragmenls of the lower
flange with a border of egg and dart ha\'e been presenied. The
height of the box alone as restored is 0.135, probably dose to its
original size. There sttms no doubl that the vase ~as of slandard
si7..e and originally had a canonical tripartite fool. The 10"'er
pattern border suggesls as a corollary the exaggerated concave
curn of the .. ails. Similar egg and dart may be seen on two lebetes
gamikoi attributed to Ihc Washing Painter and dated 430-420
a.C.n
A laurel wreath form!!. Ihe main pattern band on the majorilY of
lids from the Penthesilea Workshop It. as it did in thc second,
more mediocre stage of the Penthesilea Workshop I. The quality of
workmanship continues to decline. The lids of Alhens 1661. Louvre
CA 63tl (PI. 47.1), Lou\'re LP 2b92 (PI. 4b,O, Mayence 116 and
Mississippi manifest the late form of paired leaves lying closely
along thc slem. The leaVe!; lie limp and lifeless, no sap runs. Two
black bands regularly accenwate Ihe main pallern. A IOngue and
dot band surrounds Ihe knob wiln the exception of rays on Louvre
LP 26C)2: the outer palterns vcry widely.
The laurel and berry pallern of Athens 1707 by the Painter of
London 0 12. seem rathcr to be linked wilh transitional lids sm'h
as Oxford 1%1.468 (PI. 35) and especially Vienna 3720. 21 The
laurel of the London market vase (no. 11) is just as in Oxford; the
reserved petals connect it wilh Ihe next group.
The llul('r border 01 rcsened pelals of the Mi\sis\ippi Pyxl~ (no.
121 links it with Ihe earlier lid of Alhens 1741 (PI. 38), by Ihe Veii
polinl~r. rhe main pallern band of Athen~ 1741 is composed of
hnl..l-rl IlltuS bud~. This border also occurs on lIonolulu 3598 and
umclnn E 777 lno. 7. PI. 39). in a less careful rendilion. The
lragllll'ntaf) lid of I"ubingen [ ISblt recalls Athcm 1741. bOlh in
Ihe poillt~ of ils 10lus buds linked by- arC'S and dOlled, Ihe accenting
!;llacK !;land and the outer border of reserved petals.
A lutu~ bud chain with points dO~'n~ards may oftcn be seen on
,hl' 11\.'('1.... of red·figured column·kralcn. A considerable number of
l' lumn-haters ~ ith such decoration come from tombs in the Valle
rrchha atca al Spilla.)O
rhe main wne of Ihe lid of London E 781 tno. 9) conlains an
3nimal fricLc: a buar .... ith snout dO~'n confronting a lion and a
repeat of Ihe pair. The t~o pain are set tail 10 lail. The animal
fricLc h placed bct.... I.'e1l two ron~ntric circk":!> of egg and dOl
p;lIlcrn. The lid should be compared to Ihe lid of London E 77-1
(PI 47.2). altributl."d 10 the Drouol Painler,u ~ith two pairs of liom
31ld boars confronted hcl\lt.'ell band.. ofegg and dot. The egg.. ha'·e
been drawn on a slight slant in bolh ca!>t."'lJo. The lid of London E 774
belongs to the class of Munich 2720, which has close amnitic~ ~ ith
Ihe Penthesilea Workshop 11.
The Painter of London 0 12, a Penlhesilcan, occasionally
d~·oratl.'d pyxis lids \lith an animal frieze. Two appear on pyxides
01 t~pe A: onc canonical example in Ihe Serpieri collection tno. 6,
on p. ·n abm'e)n depicts a liberally spotted panther springing
Hlward~ a bull followed hy a hoar. The olher pyxi.. , of uncanonical
typc. is Harvard 1925.30.39 (PI. 4!s.2PI ~ith thrt.'e bulb walking in
~eqllellce separated by 1"'0 boulders. 1 ~o additional animal friezn
;lppear Ill! the tops of lids of pyxides of type B. one in Fulcla,l( the
Iltht.:r ,llle on the Vienna ll1arket.l~ Pair~ of animal.. , eonfronled. do
not I~Cllr on the lid.. by the "ainlcr of London J) 12. The Wedding
Pallltcr. another Penthc~ilcan. once decor:lIed the lid of a PYX1\
tYlw A (ull.:anonica1) ~ilh 311 animal frieze. 16
1 he three cOIll'entril' bands ot" egg pallern '" ith double border!>
and dots in the inten;tices ldots missing in the inncrmO!>t circle).
aCl'ented by two blal'k bands on Ihe lid of Yale 191.1.153 (no. 0). arc