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A Vase of Polygnotan Style: (M. d. I. xi., 38)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Percy Gardner
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The krater which is the subject of this paper is preserved in the Louvre. It has been well engraved in the Monumenti of the Institute, and discussed by Helbig in the Bulletino (1881, p. 276), by Robert in the Annali (1882, p. 273), and by Winter in his Jüngere Attische Vasen (p. 45). My object in resuming the study of it is twofold. Firstly, the vase is so remarkable for beauty and distinction of style as to have scarcely an equal, and it will be a good thing to bring it in any way to the notice of English artists and archaeologists. And secondly, in spite of Professor Robert's able paper, it appears to me that it is susceptible of a more complete explanation than it has yet received.

It was discovered at Orvieto in 1880, in a large tomb consisting of two chambers. In the same tomb were found several other vases, ranging in date from the early part of the fifth to the middle of the fourth century. Our vase was in that of the two chambers in which were for the most part later vases; but Professor Helbig states that the contents of the two chambers were broken, and so much intermingled that it was difficult to say that the vases lay in distinct groups. It seems therefore that the circumstances of the finding do not compel us to assign a particular date to our vase. Professor Robert would give it to the first quarter of the fourth century.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 10 , November 1889 , pp. 117 - 125
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1889

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page 117 note 1 xi. 38—40. Our woodcut is based on a reduction of this lithograph.

page 117 note 2 Helbig, in Bull. d. Inst. 1881, p. 276.Google Scholar

page 117 note 3 Sabouroff Collection. Text accompanying pl. lv.

page 117 note 4 Journ. Hell. Studies, viii. 3.

page 117 note 5 Ibid. i. pl. iv.

page 119 note 1 They will be found collected in the plates of the new issue of the Vienna Vorlegeblätter.

page 119 note 2 See the dissertations of Loeschcke and Milchhöfer in the Athenian Mittheilungen, vols. iv. and v.

page 119 note 3 Especially the fine Attic lekythi with white ground.

page 119 note 4 x. 25—31. Whether Pausanias' description be first-hand or second-hand is not of importance in this connexion. In fact, the nearer one brings the origin of his descriptions to the time of Polygnotus, the more one will be inclined to trust them.

page 120 note 1 These lines are probably blue on the vase, as in the fragment published in this Journal, ix. 2.

page 120 note 2 Paus. x. 30, 6; 25, 10.

page 120 note 3 Ibid. 29, 3. See Benndorf, in Eph. Arch. 1887, 128.Google Scholar

page 121 note 1 Paus. I. 18, 1.

page 121 note 2 Whence the proverb, Hesych. Cf. Brunn, , Gr. Künstler, ii. 23.Google Scholar

page 122 note 1 Rochette, Men. Ined. pl. 37.

page 122 note 2 Argonautica, i. 940—1020.

page 123 note 1 The influence of Argonautic traditions is to be found in the types of several electrum staters of Cyzicus; cf. the paper of Greenwell, W. in the Numismatic Chronicle, 1887, pp. 12, 96, 09, 112, 124Google Scholar. For the worship of Dindymene at Cyzicus see the same paper, pp. 9, 77, &c.

page 123 note 2 Klein, , Vasen mit Meistersig. p. 171M. d. I. ix. 43.Google Scholar

page 123 note 3 Paus. x. 29, 3.

page 123 note 4 Ibid. 7.

page 124 note 1 These vases are collected in the Vienna Vorlegeblätter, series E.; cf. Arch. Zcit. 1884, pl.

page 124 note 2 Paus. x. 29, 8.

page 124 note 3 Ibid 31, 10.

page 124 note 4 Argonautica, i. 1207, sqq.

page 124 note 5 Helbig, , Wandgemälde Campaniens, Nos. 1260, 1261Google Scholar. In one of these pictures, however, Hylas carries two spears.