121. (P85). Epinetron fragment. Diam. of medallion 0.093 m. PI. 9.
The fragment preserves the closed end of the object, with a bit of the sides.
On the end, a female head, right, her hair bound by an ornamented sphendone; she wears earring and necklace. Around the medallion is a narrow reserved border ornamented with black dots. Preserved on the right side, a trace of the start of the figured decoration.
White for the woman's face and for the sphendone.
A late example in the series of decorated epinetra; cf. D. M. Robinson in A.J.A., XLIX, 1945, ppl. 488-490. To the examples noted there of epinetra with painted, not plastic, female heads at the ends, add two more from the Agora Excavations (Inv. P 9195 and P 16393), both of the late fifth century.
Early Kerch.
122. (P 262). Epinetron fragment. L. 0.077 m.
P1. 9.
Fragment from the top; no edge preserved.
Scale pattern on the top; egg-and-dot pattern along side. Below pattern, on right side, small trace of some representation: bit of a head with a wreath (?).
Added clay and white for the scale pattern;
white for the wreath. Red wash inside.
The scale pattern on the top of the epinetron, ordinarily incised but sometimes rendered in red-figured technique, is here reproduced in paint, apparently without any regard for utility.
Fourth century ( ?).
RED-FIGURE: PYXIDES AND LEKANIDES
123. (P 106). Lekanis lid fragment. Ht.
0.037m. PI. 10.
Probably from a lekanis of shape A. A youth riding right, holding a spear or goad in his right hand; he wears a chlamys with black border fastened on the right shoulder and flying behind him.
From the construction filling of the West Stoa, near the middle of the north side of the building (Hesperia, XII, 1943, pp. 272-280).
Rim fragment from a lekanis of shape A.
Lower part of dress and right foot of a woman seated right; she wears chiton and himation.
Egg-and-dot pattern on rim. Inscribed to the right of the figure: MtKt[o.v] /c [rot,~[fcv].
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Relief contour for part of the chiton and wears a peplos and sits on her folded himation.
The ends of her fillet appear in the upper right the himation around her hips.
No relief contour. head, right; earring, necklace; floral ornament in front of the head; zigzag line on the rim.
Relief contour only for part of the chin.
About 400 B.C. (?).
128. (P 107). Lekanis lid fragment. Ht.
0.057m. P1. 10.
Probably from a lekanis of shape A. Male figure moving to right, wearing a short belted chiton elaborately ornamented, and a chlamys fastened around his neck and hanging down belt; the drapery elaborately shaded.
Probably by the Meleager painter; compare
Satyrs and maenads sometimes appear on the more careful lekanis lids, e. g., Brussels A 1015 (CV, d, pl. 4, 3), and Odessa (Nicole, p. 103, fig. 24).
First quarter of fourth century.
130. (P 89). Pyxis fragment. Ht. 0.031 m.;
diam. at rim, est. ca. 0.13 m. PI. 10.
Rim fragment from a pyxis either of shape A or as Richter and Milne, fig. 138. Parts of two figures left; at left, the head of a youth; broad fillet. Above him, his name, XpEclTri8v[s]. At right, the head and right shoulder of a girl;
chiton, double fillet. Above, the start of a name, Ato[. Reserved line along top of picture; the edge of the rim reserved.
Relief contour; red for the youth's fillet. The inscriptions lightly incised through the glaze.
The name XpcEALarSvs occurs here for the first time. There are, however, several instances of the name Xpe/4/s (J. Kirchner, Prosopographia Attica, Berlin, 1901-1903, nos. 15566-15569), derived from the fish, xpler (D'Arcy Thomp- son, Glossary of Greek Fishes, pp. 291-292, under xpo,/tu, Fr. Bechtel, Die historischen Per- sonennamen des Griechischen, Halle, 1917, p.
588).
About 420 B.C.
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SMALL OBJECTS FROM THE PNYX: II 131. (P 92). Pyxis lid, shape D. Diam.
0.06 m. PI. 10 and Fig. 1.
Downturned rim, grooved around upper edge. Horse's head, right, bridled. Scratched on the underside, before glazing, the letters:
No relief contour.
This lid and 132 belong to a large class of small pyxides usually decorated on the lid with the representation of a head or some single object; many examples came from Olynthos (e. g., Olynthus, V, pls. 108, 109, no. 205; XIII, pl. 89). For an example complete with its box, see the pyxis in New York, Richter and Milne, fig. 144 (Schefold, U., no. 585, figs. 8-9), like ours decorated with a horse's head, but coarser.
These little lids are often, as here, marked by the potter on the underside, before firing.
It has been suggested that this marking pro- vided a ready means of matching up each lid with its proper box, when many lids and boxes came at one time from the kiln. In some cases, where both parts of the pair are preserved, both do in fact carry the same letter or symbol (e.g., V. Pol., p. 70, note 7; Olynthus, V, pl. 108, no. 201). The two letters which appear on 131 resemble, as was pointed out to us by T. J. Dunbabin, the peculiar form of double -a or double -r which appears on some inscriptions from Halikarnassos (E. S. Roberts, Introduc- tion to Greek Epigraphy, I, Cambridge, 1887, pp. 174-176).
End of fifth century.
132. (P 93). Pyxis lid fragment, shape D.
Diam. est. ca. 0.06 m. PI. 10.
Rim fragment. Part of back and dorsal fin, right.
No relief contour.
For the shape, see 131. A fish very like ours appears on one of the lids from Olynthos
(Olynthus, V, pl. 108, no. 204).
First quarter of fourth century (?).
133. (P 91). Pyxis lid fragment. Diam. est.
ca. 0.07 m. PI. 10.
Rim fragment, grooved above; the shape similar to 131-132, but pierced at the center to take a ring handle. Satyr-child with black tail, creeping right. In front of him, a volute plant;
beneath, dotted wave-pattern; behind, part of a bird, a circle, a volute.
Relief contour for the right thigh only.
Satyrs with black tails are seen on other vases of this time; e. g., on two bell-kraters in the manner of the Meleager painter, one in London (British Museum F 58: ARV, p. 873, 1; museum phot.) and one in New York (Metr.
Museum 06.1021.214: Paralipomena, p. 389, added as no. 3 bis; museum phot.).
First quarter of fourth century.
134. (P 94). Pyxis lid fragment. Diam. est.
ca. 0.08 m. PI. 10 and Fig. 1.
Rim fragment; the top slightly convex, with a trace of a knob handle and a plain down- turned rim; possibly from a very small lekanis rather than a pyxis. Eros outstretched right, resting on his hands; volute plants. At upper right corner of fragment, trace of some further representation. Wave pattern on rim.
No relief contour.
First quarter of fourth century.
135. (P 86). Lid fragment for powder pyxis.
Ht. 0.045 m.; diam. at top est. ca. 0.08 m.
P1. 10 and Fig. 1.
The rim is finished flat above and the area inside it depressed, so that the whole resem- bles the underside of a pot with a ring foot, rather than the top of a box; possibly from a 34
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powder pyxis with reversible lid, made to be
No relief contour preserved; glaze and repre- sentation both much worn. Pink wash on the reserved surfaces.
Beginning of fourth century (?).
136. (P 90). Pyxis fragment. Ht. 0.039 m. over her head from behind; blob hair ornament.
No relief contour. White for the flesh; dilute glaze over white for the hair ornament.
For the general character compare the head of Ariadne on the calyx-krater Athens 15072 (L. C. Group, no. 19, by the painter of Athens 1375: Paralipomena, pp. 1851, 1857; Schefold, U., no. 229, pl. 45). apparently a himation knotted round his waist;
folds of one of its edges cross diagonally at the upper part of the fragment. The toes of a frontal foot at the lower right corner of the fragment belong to a lost figure at the right.
A border of dots around the picture just inside the rim; egg-pattern, inverted, on the rim. first, who looks back right, wears sakkos, belted chiton and short ornamented jacket; she car- ries crotala. The second wears chiton and hima- tion; jeweled ornaments in her hair; bracelet;
she holds her skirt in her right hand. Egg-and- dot pattern on the rim.
Partial relief contour. Added clay for belt and ornaments.
Similar jackets, XtraTvaKos xeLpS&oTos, short or in three-quarter length, worn either open or closed, may be seen on other vases, e. g.:
Tiibingen E67. Lekythos. Sabouroff painter, ARV, p. 563, 160; J.H.S., XLVIII, 1928, p. 151, fig. 8.
Bonn 1216, 116-119. Bell-krater fragments.
Painter of the Athens dinos, ARV, p. 796, her side probably was part of such a coat, worn in the fashion of the Persians, that is, over the shoulders with the sleeves hanging free (cf.
J.H.S., XLVIII, 1928, p. 143, fig. 3 and p. 145,
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understand it well.
This elaborate coat has probably been rightly identified with the icavsv (Amelung, RE, III, col. 2208, s.v. xeLpL8TroTs XLTwv; M. Bieber, Das Dresdner Schauspielerrelief, Bonn, 1907, pp. 18-19 and Ath. Mitt., XXXVI, 1911, p. 273;
Greifenhagen, CV, Bonn, text to pl. 30). Gow's argument (J.H.S., XLVIII, 1928, p. 146) that Xenophon was the first to know the Persian kandys well does not take into account the evi- dence from vase-painting and from sculpture.
The kandys was known to the Greeks at least Xenophon's time. A similar jacket, sometimes richly ornamented, sometimes quite plain, was worn by children, as we see on several choes;
cf. A.J.A., L, 1946, p. 135 and note 59; Choes, no. 842, fig. 87; no. 117, fig. 148.
Among the garments recorded as belonging to the sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia in the mid fourth century (I.G., II2, 1514-1529), the kan- dys appears sometimes with some descriptive
phrase, as xacvSvv--- -raaUaTta xovTa x (p) vao name; occasionally these garments, as depicted on vases, seem to be made to open down the front, (e. g., as on a bell-krater from Armentum in Vienna, Kunsth. Museum IV, 1144: Jahr- buch, XXVII, 1912, p. 265, fig. 1). In any case the front opening seems an essential part of the kandys, making it possible to insert the
arms quickly, as described in Xenophon's story and as seen on Persian reliefs. It may there- fore probably be distinguished from another somewhat similar garment often seen on vases, a jumper, sometimes with sleeves but as often
white for fillet and rosette.
Sub-Meidian; about 400 B.C. woman standing left; ornamented chiton, tas- selled belt, hair ornament (damaged), neck- lace, bead bracelet around upper right arm.
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of her is a wool basket; behind, part of an- other (?). At the sides of the fragment, traces of other representations.
Partial relief contour. White, with dilute glaze over, for the wool baskets, for the yoke and center stripe of the chiton and for orna- ments.
About 400 B.C. or a little later.
142. (P 115). Lekanis lid fragment, shape A.
Ht. 0.04 m. PI. 11.
From area of sanctuary at east end of East Stoa; see above, 11.
Small fragment from near center. Upper part of female figure, right, looking at a mirror which she holds in her left hand. Peplos, sphendone, necklace, hair ornaments. At the right, a hand holding a thyrsus. Streamers in the field. A broad reserved groove around the center. Dionysos and Ariadne ( ?).
For the date and perhaps the subject com- pare the lid in Brussels noted under 129 partly draped, a himation over her lower body, is seated right in a chair and holds in her lap a tall openwork basket. The other, wearing a peplos, approaches from the right, and hangs a string of beads over the basket. A loutrophoros- hydria with a ribbon knotted around its handle, and flower sprays, now faded, projecting from its mouth, stands on the ground between the two figures. Egg-and-dot pattern on rim.
No relief contour. The flesh of the seated woman white; her drapery and chair painted in an added color, now gone. Added clay for the basket, the string of beads, and for dots at the centers of the eggs (all once gilded?).
For the general character of the drapery style compare -the hydria from Cyrene in the British Museum (E 227: Schefold, U., no.
170; KV, pl. 7a; FR, pl. 79, 2). For the cere- monial basket, cf. Richter and Hall, pp. 215- 216, under no. 169.
Early Kerch.
144. (P 102). Pyxis lid fragment, shape C.
Max. dim. 0.07m. PI. 11.
Lid preserved from center to near edge of rim; at center a moulded ring and a hole for a ring handle begun but not pierced through.
Parts of two Erotes, a swan, and a large framed palmette with a volute at each side. Egg-pat- tern on rim.
No relief contour. White for the Erotes' bodies; for the heart of the palmette and for a ring of dots around the hole in the center.
Second quarter of fourth century.
145. (P 101). Pyxis lid fragment, shape C.
Diam. 0.145m. PI. 11 and Fig. 1.
From area of sanctuary at east end of East Stoa; see above, 11.
Rim fragment; about half the lid preserved.
A woman wearing an ornamented peplos with long girded overfold moves right, looking back left. In either hand she carries a large box and long ornamented sashes. She is followed by Eros, flying right, carrying in his left hand a box (?) from which hangs a sash. Another sash hangs on the wall; at the left part of another box and sash held by a lost figure.
At the right edge, part of a sash, and of some- thing else. Egg-and-dot pattern on rim.
No relief contour. White for Eros' body.
Added color, now gone, for his wings and the objects he carries. Added clay for his fillet, for a blob on top of one of the boxes, and for the woman's hair ornament and earring.
Second quarter of fourth century.
146. (P 112). Lekanis lid fragment. Ht.
0.066 m. PI. 12.
Women bringing gifts. The head to right of one carrying a plemochoe; sakkos. Another, from the right, brings a large box; sphendone.
A third, also from the right, carries a plemo- choe; she probably also wears a sphendone.
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