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On some Black-figured Vases recently acquired by the British Museum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
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Since the publication of the official catalogue (Volume II.) in 1893 the British Museum has been enriched by several black-figured vases of considerable interest and importance, which I propose to describe and discuss in this paper. Excluding the Odysseus and Kirke vase which I published in vol. xiii of this Journal, the total number amounts to eight, one of which bears an artist's signature, while another is a unique example of a very interesting class. Three others again are interesting from a typological point of view. I will take the vases in a roughly chronological order.
Corinthian oinochoe, 8 in. high, from Aegina (Fig. 1). It has a trefoil mouth and squat neck round which is a moulded ring. The handle does not rise above the mouth of the vase, and is quite plain, with cylindrical section. The vase is in good condition, except that the foot is somewhat chipped, and the black varnish is dull and frayed on the lip. It has been imperfectly fired, and the varnish has turned to red in some places. The clay ground is of a buff colour, and the clay itself appears to be rather gritty in texture.
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page 282 note 1 See Loeschcke, in Arch. Zeit. 1876, p. 108Google Scholar.
page 283 note 1 e.g, the 
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on Berlin Cat. 1704, and the Chalcidian < on Brit. Mus. B 47 (see Jahrb. d. Arch. Inst. 1890, p. 243, No. 34).
page 285 note 1 E.g. B. M. Cat. of Bronzes, Nos. 74, 249, 2821, 2828, &c.
page 285 note 2 Mon. delľInst. ix. 4; cf. also ibid, i. 7, fig. 2; Brit. Mus. B 154; Berlin 2123.
page 285 note 3 The forms Ἀνφίλοχος, Ἀμτιφάτης seem to suggest a reciprocal confusion between the μ of ἀμφί and the ν of ἀντί; but see infra.
page 285 note 4 In Quint. Smyrn. xiv. 366, Amphilochos remains with Calchas at Troy after the departure of the Greeks. He was a seer, and would therefore be appropriately present at a sacrifice, as Calchas on the Tabula Iliaca. There is another Antiphatus mentioned in Od. xv. 242 as grandfather of Amphiaraos.
page 286 note 1 See Hesyohius; Pind., Ol. ix. 167Google Scholar and Schol.; and Pape, Gr. Eigennamen3 under each form respectively.
page 286 note 2 Overbeck, (Arch. Misc. 1887, p. 10Google Scholar) has suggested the possible identity of this painting with one by Polygnotos (or, according to another reading, Polykleitos) described in an epigram (Anth. Plan. iv. 150).
page 286 note 3 Her. Bildwerke, p. 661 ff.
page 286 note 4 It may be noted that the most important of the examples given by Overbeck, the-wellknown Towneley cista in the Brit. Mus. (Cat. 743) can only be regarded as a doubtful one. There is no certain indication that the figure of the victim is feminine, and the proportions would suit equally well for a boy, while the whole design is somewhat indistinct. On the other hand, the connection of the scene with the death of Neoptolemos on the other side of the cista is an argument in favour of the received interpretation.
page 287 note 1 Hauser ad loc. p. 99.
page 287 note 2 In reference to this vase, which Loeschcke, (Ath. Mitth. 1894, p. 516Google Scholar) claims to be ‘echt Korinthisch,’ and which in the catalogue I have included among ‘Imitations of Corinthian fabrics,’ it may perhaps be worth while to mention that my view accords with that of the late F. Duemmler, who pronounced the vase to be Sicyonian, and classed it, on stylistic grounds, with the Berlin vase No. 1147 which bears a Sicyonian inscription.
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page 289 note 2 See for these two representations in ancient art, Overbeck, , Her. Bildw. pp. 91–135Google Scholar. He gives several inscribed vases with the departure of Amphiaraos, and other conjectural instances, in regard to which he points out that if they have any mythological meaning it is probably this. But he denies the existence of any representation of the ‘Brüderkampf’ earlier than the Etruscan sepulchral urns. He omits, however, the inscribed mirror in the Brit. Mus. (Cat. No. 621) which is not later than the 3rd cent. B.C. and probably earlier.
page 292 note 1 Meisters.2 p. 66, Nos. 54, 55.
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page 294 note 2 I have refrained from styling this object an ‘altar,’ as it has been hitherto called, since it has been pointed out by Blinkenberg, (Ath. Mittheil. xxiii. (1898), p. 9Google Scholar), that it really represents the table on which a board was marked out for playing the game of 
page 296 note 1 Another interesting variant of the ‘Brettspiel’ type is given by a Cypriote-Attic oinochoe from Poli in the Museum at Nicosia (Myres, , Cyprus Mus. Cat. p. 84Google Scholar, No. 1603); behind each player is an attendant warrior.
page 298 note 1 Also in Noel des Vergers, Etrurie,2 pl. 38.
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page 301 note 1 Jahrbuch, xiii. (1898), Anzeiger p. 192, fig. 11.