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A Lecythus from Eretria with the Death of Priam

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

E. A. Gardner
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The lecythus which is the subject of the present paper, and which is represented, after a drawing by M. Gilliéron, on Pl. IX., was bought by me at Chalcis in December 1893, and is now in the British School at Athens. It is said to come from Eretria, and this statement is doubtless true. Eretria is well known to be a mine of graves of all periods, especially the finest; and many excavations there, both authorized and unauthorized, have enriched the museum of Athens, and, by clandestine export, those of many foreign capitals also. Most conspicuous among the treasures recovered have been the lecythi with paintings upon a white ground. Our lecythus belongs to an uncommon class; a similar, but not identical variety is familiar to readers of the Hellenic Journal from the three examples published last year by Miss Sellers. Of the style and technique of the vase I shall speak later; at present we need only notice that the figures are in black or rather a rich dark brown varnish, laid on over a white ground, and that the style of the drawing, which, especially in the profiled outlines of the faces, is much finer than in the lecythi published by Miss Sellers, seems to belong to the beginning of the fifth century—a date which we shall, I think, find consistent with the results derived from more technical evidence.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 14 , November 1894 , pp. 170 - 185
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1894

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1 Bild und Lied, pp. 59 sqq.

2 For others, see Heydemann, , Röm. Mittheil. 1888. p. 104Google Scholar, 105, &c.

3 Cf. Robert, p. 112, where the same fusion is mentioned, only that the Astyanax motive is transferred to Troilus in the vase (Mon. Inst. i. 34).

4 Lycophron 313 καρατομηθείς; mutilation is mentioned in Sophocles' play, fr. 562 B, Dindorf., See Arch. Zeitung xiv. p. 230Google Scholar.

5 1. 186.

6 Arch. Zeitung xiv. taf. 91.

7 Gerhard, Auserlesene Vaserbilder, ccxx i.

8 For a list of these, see Klein, , Euphronios, 2nd. ed. p. 213Google Scholarsqq.&c.

9 Troischer Sagenkreis, p. 172.

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11 E.g. the Euphromos vase, Gerhard, Auserl. Vaserb. ccxxiv. &c.

12 Bild und Leid, p. 17.

13 Sammlung Sabouroff, i. 49.

14 Arch. Epigr. Mittheil, aus Oesterreich Ungarn, 1893, p. 123. It must, however, be remembered that here the presence of Astyanax is only a restoration, though a very probable one.

15 Aeneid ii. 509 &c.

16 See Mittheil. Athen. 1890, p. 44 (Weisshaüpl).

17 Froehner, Deux peintures grecques de la Nécropole de Kameiros; Heydemann, , Arch. Zeitung xxx. p. 35Google Scholar; Winnefeld, , Mittheil. Athen. 1889, p. 41Google Scholar; cf. also 1890, p. 243 (Bethe).

18 Bull. Corr. Bell. 1890, p. 380.

19 1888, pp. 193 sqq., 281 sqq. Pl. 28, 29.

20 Six., art. cit. 198.

21 Pottier, Les lécythes blancs attiques.

22 See 1888–1892 passim.

23 E.g. on three Eretrian lecythi. See 1888, p. 168, 5; 1889, p. 75, 3, 4.

24 See especially Loesehcke, , Arch. Zeitung 1881, 35–38Google Scholar.

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28 See especially the vases published by Pottier, M. in the Bull. Corr. Hell. 1892, p. 433–444Google Scholar, which show strong Cyrenaic affinities, and also resemble the work of Nicosthenes.

29 See above, n. 17, where the references are given.

30 Cf. Naukratis i, Pl V. 41 ii. p. 39, Class A 4.

31 The ‘negro’ vases are chronologically applicable, since, as Dr. Bethe observes, one has been found in the ‘Perserschutt’ on the Aeropolis, i.e. was made before 480 B.C.

32 J.H.S. 1889, p. 126.

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33a Naukratis ii. p. 47.

34 Quoted by MissSellers, , J.H.S. 1892–1893, p. 3Google Scholar. For the fragment, see Naukratis ii. p. 31, and Brit. Mus. Catalogue of Vases, B. 103, 19, with illustration.

35 A similar treatment of the sea may be seen also on the well-known leeythus with the ‘keel-hauling’, Dumont and Chaplain, Céramiques de la Grèce propre, Pl. xxiii. (the sea is not shown in the Plate). This is said to have been found in Attica.

36 Dr. Waldstein suggests to me that the pigment used for the Eretrian white lecythi was the same as the Eretrian earth mentioned by-Pliny, xxxv, 38. He tells me this passage suggested to him a fabric of vase with white ground at Eretria before his excavations there led him to the same conclusion.