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XVI.—Description of a Fictile Vase from Vulci, the allegory of which is supposed to be intended to commemorate the fate of the Family of Agamemnon. By Samuel Birch, Esq. F.S.A., Assistant Keeper of the Antiquities in the British Museum

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The Cylix, which I propose an explanation of in the present Memoir was found at Vulci, (see Plate VIII.) and formed part of the hundred select vases of the Princess of Canino. I also, as particularly illustrative of the same myths, accompany it with tracings of two other Vases from the same source. They all are portions of the great original discoveries of Hellenic fictile art at Vulci.

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page 150 note a Cf. Inghirami, Vasi Fittili, t. iv. pl. XVI. and pl. CCCXIV. Milling. Vases de Coghill, pl. XLIII. LIV.

page 150 note b See Schol. ad Troades, from MS. Vaticanus, Rom. A. Vaticanus 909. Euripid. Troad., Glasg. 1829.

page 150 note c Nem. iii. 56.

page 150 note d Cf. Mon. Inst, Arch. 37. Welcker, Annal. v. p. 90. Müller, Handbuch, s. 413, I. p. 647.

page 151 note a PI. XXIII. explained by Italinsky as Dolon: Ulysses and Diomedes re-engraved, Dubois Maisonneuve, vii. pi. XV. p. 11. Fiorelli, Commentatio de Inscr. Græc. Goett. 1804, explains in a most unsatisfactory manner this inscription. IngMrami, Gal. Om. follows the usual explanation of this scene.

page 151 note b Annali del Inst. d. Cor. Arch. iii. 8vo. Rom. 1831. Cf. Mus. Etrusq. 1737. Welcker, Annales de I'Institut Archeologique, xvii. 142, note 1.

page 151 note c Inghirami, Gal. Om. tom. i. tav. XV.

page 152 note a Gal. Om. tom. i. tav. XXIV. XXV.

page 152 note b Piranesi, Antichita Romane, tom. ii. tav. XXXIII. Bartoli, Antichi Sepolchri, tav. XXX. Montfaucon, Antiquités Expliqués, tom. v. p, i. lib. iii. c. i. ii. Venuti, Spiegazione dei Bassirilievi nell’ urna d'Alessandro Severo. Foggini, Museo Capitolino, tom. iv. tav. I. He. Reflessioni antiquarii sulle sculture Capitoline, tom. i.

page 152 note c Mon. Ined. No. 124. Inghirami, Gal. Om. tav. XXIII. p. 63.

page 152 note d Inghirami, 1. c. xxiv.

page 153 note a Schol. ad Sophocl. Ajacem, 190. Cf. Æschyl. Fragm. Dindorf, 8vo. Par. 1842, p. 213. Ovid, Met. xiii. the argument of the Μίƍαλιας. Schol. Aristoph. Eq. 1051. See also the extracts of Pacuvius and Attius, 1. c.

page 153 note b This monument, first published by Koehler, Magazin Encyclopedique, 1803, v. p. 372, by Millin. Gal. Myth. 629, is conjectured by Inghirami, Gal. Om. ex. to be the dedication of the armour of Dolon.

page 153 note c Cf. Quint. Smyrn. Paralipom. v. 125–332, supposed to be a reproduction of the Æthiopis of Arctinus; Johannes, Tzetzes, Posthom. 480–484, 495; and the Argument to the Ajax of Sophocles.

page 153 note d Dictys Cretensis, lib. v. sub fine.

page 153 note e Oresteid.

page 153 note f Mon. Ined. Oresteide, p. 115, and foil.

page 153 note g Rhein. Mus. iv. 606. u. ff.

page 153 note h Schol. ad Acharn. Aristoph. v. 332.

page 153 note i Welcker, in Bullet. Arch. Napol. Feb. 1843, No. 5, p. 33, No. V. in s. vi. 1572.

page 154 note a Cf. also Jahn, Telephos, and Troilos, Kiel, 1841. Raoul Rochette, M. I. pl. xlvii.

page 154 note b Welcker, loc. cit.

page 154 note c Welcker, loc. cit. p. 34. Cf. also Dempster, Etruria Regalis, t.1. tab. L. p. 343, and LI. LII.

page 154 note d See Aristophanes, Eccles. 1041.

page 154 note e Monumens Inedits, pl. XVI. p. 156. Inghirami, Vasi Fittili, tom. ii. tav. CLVII.

page 154 note f Inghirami, Vasi Fittili, tom. ii. pl. CXL. Gargiulo, Raccolta dei Monumenti piu interresanti del R. Museo Borbonico.

page 154 note g Raoul Rochette, Peint. Ant. pl. VIII. IX. p. 415, and foll.

page 154 note h Inghirami, Vasi Fittili, tom. ii. tav. CXXXVI.

page 155 note a Peintures antiques et inédits de Vases Grecques, tirées de diverses Collections, avec des explications, pl. IV. p. 25; repeated, Inghirami, Vasi Fittili, ii. CXXXIX.

page 155 note b Mon. Ined. pl. XXXI. A.

page 155 note c Schol. ad Sophocl. Electram, 436, ἀπὸ τοῦ χέειν αὐτὰ κάτω τῆς ἔƍας ἢγουν τῆς γῆς.

page 155 note d Italinsky, fo. Naples, 1791, tom. i. pi. LXXXVI.

page 155 note e Æsch. Choeph. 499, cf. 1. 334.

page 155 note f Milling. Peint. Ant. p. 34, note 2.

page 155 note g Inghirami, loc. cit. ii. tav. CLI.

page 156 note a Milling. Peint. Ant.; Inghirami, Vas. Fitt. ii. tav. CLIII.

page 156 note b Millin. Peint. de Vases Antiques, vulgairement appellées Etrusques, tom. ii. pl. LI. Raoul Rochette, tom, ii. pl. LI. Rochette, Mon. Ined. P. I. p. 159, note 47. Inghirami, ii. tav. CLVI.p. 75.

page 156 note c Tom. i. XXI.

page 156 note d Antiquités, Etrusques, Grecques, et Romaines, tom.iv. pi. LXXXI. Inghirami, loc. cit.tom. ii. pi. CXLII.

page 156 note e Pitture di Vasi Antichi, tom. i. tav. XV. Tischbein, fo. Naples, 1791, pl. XXXVI.

page 156 note f Museo Chiusino, tav. CXCVIII. Inghirami, Vasi Fittili, tom. ii. tav. CLVIII.

page 157 note a Inghirami, V. F. tom. iii. tav. CCXLVI. Gal. Omer. iii. tav. IX. p. 57.

page 157 note b Schol. ad Soph. Elect. 50, et seq.

page 157 note c Electr. 1. 54. Cf. Schol. ad eund. τὸ ἂγγος τὴν ὐδƍίαν; and Æschyl. Choeph. 1. 684.

page 157 note d Laborde, Vases de Lamberg, i. pl. VIII. Raoul Rochette, Mon. Ined. pi. XXXIV. p. 159.

page 157 note e Tischbein, fo. Naples, 1791, pi. LXXXVII.

page 158 note a Inghirami, Gal. Om. t. ccxx. Æsch. Choeph. 947.

page 158 note b Oreste stretto al parricidio dal fato specchio Etrusco di Giuseppe Bassegio, illustrato da E. Braun, fo. Roma, 1841. Gerhard, Miroirs Etrusques, pi. CCXXVII.

page 158 note c Gerhard, Vases Etrusques et Campanéens de Musée Royal de Berlin, fo. Berlin, 1843, pi. XXIV. p. 35.

page 158 note d Πελόπος ἐπὶ πƍοπατόρος ἓδƍαν. Euripid. Orest. 1. 1365.

page 158 note e Electra, 97, et seq., Schol. ad eund. 1. 195, and Schol. 8, γένυς γὰρ εἶδος πελέκεος.. Æschyl. Choeph. 887.

page 158 note f Welcker, Bullet. Arch. Napol. Feb. 1843, No. v. p. 34.

page 158 note g Museo Pio Clementino, v. 22, tav. A. 6. Millin. Gal. Mythol. clxv. 618, 619. Welcker, Zeitschrift, s. 434, u. ff. s. Rochette, Mon. xxix. A. 2, p. 145.

page 158 note h Gerhard, Vases, loc. cit.

page 158 note i Micali, Stor. d’ Italia, tav. CIX. Rochette, Mon. In. xxix. i. 6. Inghirami, Mon. Etr. vi. tav. A 2. Cf. also Sarc. found in Vigna Argoli at Rome, 1839, p. 2, et seq.

page 158 note k Euripid. Orest. 40. Tzetzes, ad Lye. 112.

page 158 note l Parœmiogr. Vet. a Gaisford. 8vo. Oxon. 1840, p. 41–301. Cf. Orest. 1. c. ἀποκτείνας γὰƍ τὴν μητέƍα περίδειπνον ἐποίησεν.

page 159 note a Bull. Arch. Napol. 1844.

page 159 note b Vasenbilder, 4to. Hamburgh, p. 1849, and fol.

page 159 note c Inghirami, V. F. iv. tav. CCCLXXXV. CCCLXXXVI. Cf. Raoul Roch. Mon. In. pi. XXXVL., XXXVII. 186.

page 159 note d Inghirami, Vasi Fittili, tom. iv. CCCLXVII. Tischbein, ii. tav. IX. p. 10.

page 159 note e Mon. In. pl. XXXV. p. 192–196.

page 159 note f Ant. Bild. No. 1003, p. 285.

page 159 note g Visconti, in the Atti dell’ Academia Romana di Archæologia, t. ii. p. 601 and foil. Rochette, Mon. In. xxxviii.

page 159 note h Choeph. i. Cf. the Iphigeneia, 1. 281, 282.

page 159 note i Millin. Mon. In. i. 29. Vases, ii. 68. Gal. Myth. 171–623.

page 160 note a Thorlacius, Vas piotum Italo-Grecum, Orestem ad Delphicum tripodem supplicem exhibens, Kopenhagen, 1826; reduced in Muller, Denkm. ii. t. 13, 148. Jahn, loc. cit. p. 7.

page 160 note b Now in the British Museum. Raoul Rochette, pi. CLV. p. 197. De Witte, Cat. Dur. No. 1381, p. 343.

page 160 note c Ant. Etr. Grec. &c. tom. ii. pi. XXX. T. David, tom. ii. pi. XXXI. p. 123. Inghirami, Gal. Omer. tav. III. XI.

page 160 note d Schol. ad Ran. loc. cit. Tzetzes, ad Lye. Alex. 1734.

page 160 note e Schol. ad Ran. 615, and foll. Iphig. in Taur. 910, and foll.

page 160 note f Tzetzes, loc. cit. Iphig. in Taur. 1. 931.

page 160 note g Müller, Diss. on Eumenides of Æschylus, Engl. translation, Cambr. 1835, p. 243, et seq.

page 161 note a Cf. Paus. i. c. 28, 5; 21, 7; iii. c. 14, 2; that is, supposing Ares and Poseidon were replaced by two other divinities in the court.

page 161 note b Hellanicus in lib. i. (Atthis) in Bachmann's Anecdota, p. 142, 22, et seq.

page 161 note c Bachm. loc. cit. Bekker, Scholia in Platonem, 8vo. London, 1824, 4. Phædr. vol. iii. p. 229.

page 161 note d Hellanicus, Atthis, lib. i. in Schol. ad Euripidis Orestem, 1. 1648. Fragmenta Historicorum Græcorum, 8vo. Par. 1841, p. 56.

page 161 note e Ibid.

page 161 note f Hesychius, ἐπι Παλλαδίῳ.. Cf. Bekker, Anecd. Lex. Rhet. p. 212 and 311. The Palladium was that which Demophon had taken from Diomedes, who had killed in his flight several persons; hence the institution of the court.

page 161 note g Paus. Att. i. c. xxvii.

page 161 note h Cf. Bachman, loc. cit. p. 333 καδισκὸς ἐν τῇ τƍαπεξῇ τῃ δικαστικῇ. Pollux, viii. c 5. s. 17.

page 162 note a Cf. Æschyl. Eumenid.; and Iphig. 1436, and foll.

page 162 note b Bachmann, Anecd. Lips. 1828, p. 333.

page 162 note c Euripid. Orest. 1. 50.

page 162 note d Ibid. 42.

page 162 note e Mus. Borbon. v. 23, in supposing this picture to be rightly assigned; it has, however, much analogy with Iphigeneia at Aulis.

page 162 note f Raoul Rochette, Mon. Ined. xxvi. p. 129, 130. Lanzi, Descr. d. Gall. d. Firenze, p. 166–169. Carli, Descr. d. Mantov. 1785, p. 284. Uhden Abhandlung d. Koniglich. Akadem d. Wissenschaften in Berlin, 1812, p. 74. Welcker die.Æischyl. Trilogie, 412, 413.

page 162 note g Zahn, Neuendeckte, Wandgemalde in Pompeii, PI. XXIX. Raoul Rochette, Choix des Edifices, &c, PL XIV. Mon. In. xxvii.

page 162 note h Rochette, Mon. In. p. 129–180. Plin. xxxvi. 10–25. Cicer. Orat. 22, 74. Quintil. ii. 13. Val. Max. viii. 11, 6.

page 162 note i Gerhard. Auser. Vas.

page 162 note k Raoul Rochette, M. In. lxxx.

page 162 note l Dindorf, Poetæ Scenici, App. p. 21.

page 162 note m Ibid, and Script. Vit. Æschyl. Cf. Aristoph. Batr. v. 942.

page 163 note a False Anacreon, Od. li. Herodian. Oreilius, Vit. Secundi p. 208.

page 163 note b Or the ἒξωμις, Bachmann, Anecd. 11. supra cit.

page 163 note c Od, 31.

page 163 note d Vocibus.

page 163 note e L. 72.

page 163 note f Cf. λυκόπους.. Schol. ad Aristophaois Lysistratam, 1. 83 whose reasonings are wrong, as the whole passage applies to the Alcmæonidæ, who are connected with the Oresteidæ even, in the false Anacreon, loc. cit.

page 163 note g Strabo, xii. c. 2.

page 163 note h Rerum Mythicarum Latini Script, tres, ii. 202.

page 163 note i Panofka, Cabinet Pourtales, pi. VII. p. 40. This subject however, has much relation, with, the mythos of Sisyphus.

page 163 note k Mon. In. No. 151, fo. Prato. 1834. Gal. Mythol. clxxi. 624. Paciaudi Peloponnesiaca, p. 68. Cf. Panofka, loc. cit. for the possibility of the torch-bearing figure being an Erinnys. Böttiger, loc cit. a, vase of the Roller Collection, in Berlin. Raoul Rochette, M. I. pl. XXXV. Another at Naples. M. I. lxxvi. 8. p. 419.

page 163 note l Millingen, Recueil de quelques Medailles Grecques, 4to. Rome, 1.81,2, who balances between, the κλῆοονɸιδαντεῖον, and this subject. Aristid. in,, A then. Orat. i. p. 1,3. He ultimately reverts to the Pallas-Alea. Cf. Mionnet, ii. p.,255, No. 68, p. 256. Supp. iv. 293, No. 1,15, ‘with L A and IE in, area. This flint was supposed to be deposited in, the temple of Apollo at Sicyon, according to L. Ampelius, Mirab. cviii Sicyone in Achaia in, foro ædes Apollonis est. In, ea sunt &c. cauculus quem Minerva sortita est. De Orestæ cervice. Heinsius has restored, calculus. Ed. Valpy, loco, 8vo. 1822; but it is necessary to carry it on, sortita, est de Orestæ cervice.

page 163 note m D'Hancarville.

page 164 note a Paus. viii. 5.

page 164 note b Tzetzes, Schol. ad Lyc. Alexandr. 1374. Cf. Rer. Myth. Scriptor. Mythogr. ties, a Bode, ii. s. 202. Cui responsuni est sic eum posse sanari, si.Dianæ Scythicæ simulacrum de Taurica regione ferret. She was worshipped at Hala and, Brauron. Spanh ad, Callim. H. dec. 173. Euripid. Iphig. in Taur.

page 164 note c Mus. Berl. Jahn, Vasenbild. Orestes, taf. I.

page 164 note d Tzetzes, Schol. ad Lyc.

page 164 note e Ibid.

page 164 note f D'Hancarville, ii. 68.

page 164 note g Boissonade, 8vo. Leps. 1820, p. 47, 48, s. 86. Cratylus, s. 26.

page 164 note h Mon. In. pi. XLI.

page 164 note i Guattani, Notizie, 4to. Roma, 1786. lxxxij. t. I.

page 164 note j Monumenti, 1837, pl. XLIII

page 165 note a I would also class hypothetically among the vases of the Oresteid, the cylix published Ann. de I'lnst. tom. ix. p. 188–206. Mon. 1837. PL XVI, where Orestes, as an armed warrior, ΛΕΣ, (which correct to ΔΕΣ, for δΡΕΣτης) is attended by Electra into the presence of Apollo ΔΩΝ for ἈπολΛΩΝ.

page 165 note b Laborde, Vases de Lamberg, xiv. Cf. also Quintil. iii. c. iii. s. 8, for a similar incident to Augustus.

page 165 note c Ibid. Tom. i. vignette No. 6. Gerhard, Miroirs, CCXXXIX.

page 165 note d Jahrbucher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunde im Rheinland. Bonn,, 8vo. 1842, tab. iii. iv. fig. 3. Kunstblatt, 1822, Mr. 3, s. 12.

page 165 note e Winckelman, Mon. In. No. 149–167.

page 165 note f Millin. Oresteide, PL III. IV. linck in, Kunstblatt, 1828, s.,166.

page 165 note g Obtained by M. Bunsen for Berlin. Bull, de 1' Inst. Archæol. 1829, p. 216; 1830, p. 262. Gerhard, Berlins Antike Bildwerke, i. s. 101, ff.

page 166 note a Tzetzes, Schol. ad Lyc. loc. cit. Strabo, xii. c. 2.

page 166 note b Tzetzes, loc. cit. Lat. Myth. Tres, i. 40–140.

page 166 note c Herodot. i. 67. Paus, iii. c. 6.

page 166 note d Tzetzes, ad Lyc. 1874. Vell. Pat. i. c 2.

page 166 note e Tzetzes, loc. cit. Paus. viii. s. 5.

page 166 note f Orestes, I. 1663. Tzetzes, ad Lyc. loc. cit. παρἀ τοῖςƍασινƍκασιν, where it is possible to read παρὰ Τεγέασινρκασιν.

page 166 note g Nonnus, Narr. Vigint. in, Crenzer, Meletemata, 8vo. Lips. 1817, pars iv. p. 82. Eudocia, Viol. p. 317.

page 167 note a Tid. supra, Micali, Storia d'Italia, tav. CIX. Rochette, xxix. A. 6. Inghirami, Mon.Etruse. tav. A.2.

page 167 note b Cf. Laborde, Vases de Lambeig, xiv.

page 167 note c Herod, ix. 11. Paus, iii 3, 6; ii. 8; viii, 5, 4.

page 167 note d Rer. Myth. Script. Lat. Myth, tres, ii. 20, 202. Cf. i. 20. As the Diana fascelis a fasce, non tantmn a face cum quo pingitur. The whipping at her altar referred to the former human sacrifices.

page 167 note e Cf. the idea, Hor. Od. iii.,2, 30.