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An Archaic Vase with Representation of a Marriage Procession
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 August 2012
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The vase which forms the subject of this memoir has been thought worthy of publication, both because it belongs to a type of which we have as yet but few examples, and also on account of the peculiar interest attaching to the design painted upon it. Its probable age can only be a matter of conjecture, as some of the vases of the class to which it belongs have been considered by archaeologists to be late imitations of the archaic, while on the other hand the internal evidence of the painting would seem to assign it to a place among the earliest class of Greek vases. It is figured on Plate VII.
It is a circular dish with two handles, 3 inches high by 11¾ inches diameter, composed of a soft reddish clay of a yielding surface; the painting is laid on in a reddish brown, in some parts so thinly as to be transparent, and in other parts has rubbed away with the surface, so that it has acquired that patchy appearance generally characteristic of vase pictures of this type. The drawing, though crude and in parts almost grotesque, is executed with great spirit and freedom of style,—and thus could hardly have been the work of a late provincial artist—while in the shape of the column and of the wheel of the cart, in the prominent nose and chin which admit of no distinction between bearded and beardless faces, and in the angular contour of the human figures, we recognise features peculiar to an archaic period of art.
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page 203 note 1 The rough vertical line down the centre is possiblya rude attempt to render fluting?
page 203 note 2 Ar. Lys. 759.
page 204 note 1 See Gerhard, Aus. Vas. Taff. cccx. foll.
page 205 note 1 Cf. Becker, 's Charicles ed. Göll, , pp. 361–2Google Scholar. I can find no direct evidence against this theory except a passage of Hesychius (under γάμων ἔθη), of which the reading seems unsatisfactory.
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page 205 note 3 Poll. iii. 38, καί τῆς κόμης δὲ τότε i.e. at the προτέλεια) ἀπήρχοντο ταîς θεαîς αἱ κόραι.
page 206 note 1 Either thede regular priestess of Athenè or, as we know was the case in the Dionysia (Ar. Ach. 241–252), au unmarried female, probably a relative of the bride.
page 206 note 2 Ach. Tat. ii. 12; Eur. Iph. in A. 718.
page 207 note 1 Soph. Oed. Tyr. 3, &c.
page 207 note 2 Wachsmuth, , Hell. Alt. ii. 389Google Scholar; Pollux, i. 35, &c.
page 207 note 3 Cf. Hom., Il. vii. 426, and xxiv. 782Google Scholar. Gerhard, in the Berlins antike Bildwerke, describing a vase which is certainly Etruscan, mentions a similar two-wheeled mule car, on which lies a bearded corpse; the procession is headed by the grotesque figure of Charun, the Etruscan conception of death.
page 207 note 4 Onom. iii. 40.
page 208 note 1 Hesych. II., p. 692, 
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