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Apollo and Ida fighting for Marpessa. On this psykter,<br />

the double maeander which borders the scene<br />

below altern<strong>at</strong>es with checkerboard cartouches.123<br />

<strong>The</strong> motif is not uncommon on Attic white-ground<br />

lekythoi,124 and it appears in relief on a black 5thcentury<br />

kal<strong>at</strong>hos in Karlsruhe.125 It appears finely<br />

embossed on a gold kal<strong>at</strong>hos in the Hermitage, d<strong>at</strong>ed<br />

to the end <strong>of</strong> the 5th or the beginning <strong>of</strong> the 4th century<br />

B.C.126 A special diffusion <strong>of</strong> the double maeander<br />

with cartouches is found on <strong>Classical</strong> architectural<br />

decor<strong>at</strong>ions,'27 even in the peripheral areas like<br />

Magna Graecia and Sicily,128 and Ionia.129 Clearly<br />

CORINTHIAN BASINS ON HIGH STANDS 387<br />

tied to architectural schemes is the double maeander<br />

with brightly painted cartouches on the stone sar-<br />

cophagus <strong>of</strong> the Pan<strong>at</strong>henaic <strong>at</strong>hlete in the N<strong>at</strong>ional<br />

Museum <strong>of</strong> Taranto, d<strong>at</strong>ed to the beginning <strong>of</strong> the<br />

5th century B.C. 130 Besides being especially well<br />

adapted for framing fields <strong>of</strong> figures and for empha-<br />

sizing long straight surfaces, the four-branched mae-<br />

ander with cartouches, because <strong>of</strong> its very conforma-<br />

tion, is appropri<strong>at</strong>e for emphasizing the continuity <strong>of</strong><br />

circular zones,131 as it does on 62. One finds the motif<br />

painted or in relief and articul<strong>at</strong>ed in double<br />

bands on giant pithoi,132 on basins and stands from<br />

123 R. Lullies and M. Hirmer, Griechischen Vasen, Munich 1953, pls. 70-79.<br />

124 Kurtz (footnote 64 above), p. 158, fig. 5; see also fig. 4 for a continuous double maeander without cartouches.<br />

125 F. Garscha, Antike Vasen. Badische Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 1954, pl. 23.<br />

126 X. Gorbunova and I. Saverkina, Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Hermitage, Leningrad 1975, pl. 64.<br />

127 <strong>The</strong>re are numerous examples <strong>of</strong> double maeanders with cartouches, <strong>of</strong>ten filled with a checkerboard<br />

p<strong>at</strong>tern, especially in architectural decor<strong>at</strong>ions. In addition to the noted examples from the Parthenon, the<br />

Temple <strong>of</strong> Zeus, the Metroon, and some treasuries <strong>at</strong> Olympia, the Temple <strong>of</strong> Athena Alea in Tegea, the<br />

second Argive Heraion, the temples <strong>of</strong> Delphi, Bassai, and Epidauros, see E. Buschor, Die Tonddcher der<br />

Akropolis, I, Simen, Berlin/Leipzig 1929, pp. 45-46, no. XXIII, pl. 12, fig. 52; idem (footnote 16 above),<br />

pp. 22-25, nos. XXIV-XXVII, figs. 28-33; J. Michaud, "Chronique des Fouilles en 1973," BCH 98, 1974,<br />

p. 643, fig. 158 (from Kerkyra); J. F. Bommelaer, "Simas et gargouilles classiques de Delphes," BCH 102,<br />

1978, pp. 173-197; G. Touchais, "Chronique des Fouilles en 1976," BCH 101, 1977, p. 586, fig. 162 (from<br />

<strong>The</strong>bes), displaying a double maeander with a checkerboard p<strong>at</strong>tern, together with a row <strong>of</strong> eggs which are<br />

similar to those on 62 and which are separ<strong>at</strong>ed by large darts. <strong>The</strong>re are numerous examples in Corinth:<br />

Corinth IV, i, S(imas) 42, 104, 112-115, 117, 127, and 129; T(iles) 47, 110, 115, 124, and 130; figs. 23, 24,<br />

26-28, 32, 34, 41, 44, and 47; pl. V; see also pp. 38 and 46. <strong>The</strong> maeander is defined as Type IIa.<br />

128 For a range <strong>of</strong> 6th- to 4th-century comparisons <strong>of</strong>fered by numerous simas, see Jozzo, nos. 20-22, 24, 25,<br />

41, 44, 45, and 71. <strong>The</strong> motif is not uncommon in the vase production <strong>of</strong> Magna Graecia from <strong>at</strong> least the third<br />

quarter <strong>of</strong> the 4th century B.C.: A. D. Trendall and A. Cambitoglou, <strong>The</strong> Red-Figured Vases <strong>of</strong> Apulia I,<br />

Oxford 1978, pl. 151. <strong>The</strong> motif appears frequently on l<strong>at</strong>e red-figured vases: eidem, <strong>The</strong> Red-Figured Vases<br />

<strong>of</strong> Apulia II, Oxford 1982, passim. Cf. also an Apulian amphora from Canosa, decor<strong>at</strong>ed <strong>at</strong> the end <strong>of</strong> the 4th<br />

century B.C. with one <strong>of</strong> the earliest examples <strong>of</strong> a double maeander with cartouches seen in perspective and in<br />

axonometry: P. E. Arias, Storia della ceramica di eta arcaica, classica ed ellenistica e della pittura di eta arcaica<br />

e classica, Turin 1963, pl. CLXIII:2.<br />

129 Akerstrom (footnote 16 above), pp. 1-2, pls. 1 and 4 (from Chersonesos); see also pls. 1:4 and 7:8 (from<br />

Olbia), 7:1 and 3 (from Assos), and 17:4 and 5 (provenance unknown). <strong>The</strong>se examples all d<strong>at</strong>e l<strong>at</strong>er than 62.<br />

130 F. G. Lo Porto, "Tombe di <strong>at</strong>leti tarentini," AttiMGrecia 8, 1967, pp. 69-84, fig. 6, pls. 21, 22; see also<br />

p. 72, note 183 for other comparisons with architectural terracottas. Still in a strictly architectural type <strong>of</strong> composition,<br />

presumably templar, there are the maeanders on Hellenistic Boiotian funerary monuments: P. M.<br />

Fraser and T. Ronne, Boeotian and West Greek Tombstones, Lund 1957, pp. 59-60, pls. 9,10.<br />

131 In a circular p<strong>at</strong>tern, it will be found as l<strong>at</strong>e as Hellenistic relief-ware cups from various provenances: A.<br />

Laumonier, Explor<strong>at</strong>ion arche'ologique de De'los, XXXI, La ce'ramique helle'nistique a reliefs, i, Ateliers "ioniens",<br />

Paris 1977; G. Siebert, Recherches sur les <strong>at</strong>eliers de bols a reliefs du Pe'loponnese a l'e'poque Helle'nistique<br />

(BEFAR 233), Paris 1978; see also pl. 65, illustr<strong>at</strong>ing a Protohellenistic fresco from Delos which<br />

has a double maeander with a checkerboard p<strong>at</strong>tern together with eggs and darts; S. I. Rotr<strong>of</strong>f, <strong>The</strong> Athenian<br />

Agora, XXII, Hellenistic Pottery. Athenian and Imported Moldmade Bowls, Princeton 1982, passim.<br />

132 J. K. Brock and G. M. Young, "Excav<strong>at</strong>ions in Siphnos," BSA 44, 1949, p. 56, pl. 20:12; G. Touchais,<br />

"Chronique des Fouilles en 1980," BCH 105, 1981, p. 857, figs. 167, 168.

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