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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
Plate VIII and fig. 1 are from a red-figured vase in the Wisbech Museum and Literary Institution, Wisbech, Cambs. It is a skyphos, shape B, 8·45 cm. high and 11·3 broad (17·65 with handles). It was given to the Museum on October 7th, 1836, by William Peckover. Its provenance is unknown.
A narrow reserved line runs all round the vase below the pictures.
On the front is a warrior crouching to left, no doubt in ambush. He wears a Corinthian helmet with a horse-tail plume pushed back on his head, and carries a shield shewn in three-quarter view, but with the device, a facing bull's head, shewn as though the shield were seen in profile. He has a patterned garment round his waist, and holds a spear horizontally. On the other side is an archer moving to the left and shooting. He has an Eastern cap and bow, a garment round his waist and a quiver on his left thigh.
1 I owe my knowledge of the vase to my father, Professor D. S. Robertson. The attribution was made independently by my father and myself, and is confirmed by Professor Beazley, to whom I owe thanks for suggestions and criticisms.
I have to thank the Committee of the Museum for permission to publish the vase, and Mr. L. A. Curtis Edwards, the curator, for his kind assistance. I also have to thank Dr. R. Zahn for permission to reproduce the Berlin skyphos, fig. 3, and for kindness in procuring me the photograph.
2 On the shape see Beazley in text to CVA. Oxford, II, pl. LXV, 2.
3 Paris, Marguerite de la Charlonie Collection. PM. no. 21. Pictures framed, as in the very similar vase in Naples, PM. no. 20. The picture on the other side of the vase shews a surprising proportion—two herms to one youth—but the painter has a great weakness for these figures; see PM. p. 13. The one the youth is in the act of worshipping has a garland hung on its projecting bar, and another on its phallus. It is almost identical with the one on the Vienna pelike, PM. 23, 2, though that is only garlanded on the bar. The garlands are all of the same type—a string with six beads (?) on the lower part of it.
4 The parallel is obscured by the fact that there the device is also set too high in the shield, and is not separated from the background by a reserved line.