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appears quaintly enough on the shoulder of the vase^ as a woman
running towards the right but looking behind her. Zeus, occupying
the main field of decoration, advances with hasty steps, a thunder-
bolt in his right hand, a sceptre in his left. But it is noticeable
that, as compared with the previous design, his bolt is not brandished
so high and his onset, motived by love not hate, is less furious. On
a red-figured hydria at Paris, assigned by J. D. Beazley to the
• master of the Berlin amphora,' a painter of the ripe archaic period.
Fig. 665.
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the same theme of amorous pursuit is rendered with even greater
restraint (fig. 13)^ The bolt is held, not in the raised right hand,
but in the lowered left.
Contemporary with that vase is a fragmentary kraterij) at Paris,
painted in all probability by the artist who worked for the potter
Kleophrades. This noble sherd shows Hermes weighing the warrior-
souls of Achilles and Memnon in the presence of Zeus (fig. 665)^.
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^ J. D. Beazley loc. cit. notes :
shoulder is related to the figure on the body.'
' this is the only lekythos where the figure on the
- Supra p. 27 n. o. See J. D. Beazley 'The Master of the Berlin Amphora' in the
/oum. Hell. Stitd. 191 1 xxxi. 294 no. 25 a, id. Attic red-figured Vases in Americati
Museums Cambridge Mass. 1918 p. 36, Hoppin Red-fig. Vases i. 71 no. 83.
^ De Ridder Cat. Vases de la Bibl. Nat. ii. 279 no. 385 ('stamnos '), J. de Witte in
the Ann. d. hist. 1834 vi. 296, Mon. d. Inst, ii pi. 10, B ( = my fig. 665), Reinach Rip.
Vases i. 89, 4, Overbeck Gall. her. Bildw. i. 527 no. 65 Atlas pi. 22, 9, O. Crusius in