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Two Vases by Phintias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

H. Stuart Jones
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It was my intention to publish in the Journal of Hellenic Studies a cylix by Phintias in the Central Museum at Athens, together with the substance of a paper read at a meeting of the British Archaeological School in March of this year. Learning, however, that Dr. P. Hartwig was anxious to publish the cylix in his forthcoming Meisterschalen, I entered into correspondence with him, and by his kindness am enabled to publish in its place the well-known hydria in the British Museum (Klein, Meistersignaturen 3) and fragments of a stamnos in the possession of Dr. Friedrich Hauser, now at Stuttgart, whose kindness in furnishing me with drawings by his own hand I would gratefully acknowledge.

A.—The first vase to be discussed is the hydria in the British Museum (E 264) found at Vulci. The form is the older one with sharp divisions between neck, shoulder, and body, which is characteristic of b.f. hydriae, and disappears after the ‘severe’ period of r.f. vase-painting, shoulder and body passing into one and leaving only one field for decoration. On the inside of the lip, in front of the junction with the handle, are three round knobs suggesting pegs or nails. These are in this case painted purple, whereas usually when they appear they are varnished—cp. Petersburg 1, 337 and Berlin 1897 = Gerhard, A. V. 249, 250. The handles are left unvarnished, which is also comparatively uncommon. The main field of the vase is occupied by a scene, which if not of surpassing originality or interest, is at least unusual. Three naked ἔφηβοι, are represented in the act of carrying water from a fountain in hydriae which are of the same form as the vase itself, except that that which is carried by the second youth from the right on his shoulder is apparently of a more developed form, in which the sharp division between shoulder and body is given up. On the extreme right a stream of water issues from a lion's head of admirable execution, worthy to stand beside analogous portions of the work of Sosias and Peithinous, and a youth fills his hydria.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 12 , November 1891 , pp. 366 - 380
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1891

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page 366 note 1 The body of the vase is reproduced at three-quarters of the original size on Plate XX., the shoulder at two-thirds of the original size on Plate XXI.

page 366 note 2 This splendid vase Furtwängler conjectures to be by Hischylos, on what grounds it is not easy to see, probably because the Berlin Museum contains a pinax of Hischylos (2100). I mention this because Klein (Vasen mit Lieblingsinschriften p. 22) speaks of the hydria inscribed Τέλης καλός (Jahrbuch 1889 x.) as ‘in the style of Hischylos.’ What is the style of Hischylos?

page 368 note 1 The plates reproduce the fragments at rather more than half of the original size.

page 369 note 1 Owing to an error of Overbeck, (Gallerie Heroischer Bildwerke, p. 181 No. 16Google Scholar) it has been supposed that this was a b.f. vase preserved at München, and it accordingly appears in Gräf's, list (Jahrbuch, 1886 p. 202Google Scholar) as No. 24, Ov. 16=München 767? Where the vase may be, I do not know, but it is certainly r.f., and certainly not at München. It was discovered by Campanari.

page 370 note 1 It is less probable that the figure was holding a cord (cp. Gerhard, A. V. 271).

page 371 note 1 The group might perhaps be reconstructed somewhat similarly to Benndorf, , Griech. und Sic Vasenbilder, XXXI. 2a.Google Scholar

page 372 note 1 See Dümmler, , Bonner Studien, pp. 70–77.Google Scholar

page 372 note 2 A. Z. 1884 p. 251.

page 372 note 3 Bonner Studien, p. 89.

page 373 note 1 Euphronios,2 pp. 117 f., 129, &c.

page 373 note 2 I have in my possession a small psykter said to come from Tanagra, which has no figure-subjects, but may be inferred from the ornamentation to belong to this period.

page 374 note 1 Bonner Studien, p. 75 note 14.

page 374 note 2 Bonner Studien, p. 75.

page 374 note 3 Euphronios, pp. 117, 267.

page 374 note 4 Cp. forms 194, 5, 6 in Stephani's Hermitage catalogue, Pl. IV.

page 375 note 1 Vasen mit Licblingsinschriften, p. 6.

page 376 note 1 Cp. the unsigned vase of Brygos, Archaeologia, xxxii. 8, 9, 11Google Scholar, which also shows the rows dots.

page 376 note 2 An interesting parallel to the Danae-krater is furnished by the Danae-stamnos (M. d. l. 1856 viii.), in the developed style of Hieron and Brygos.

page 376 note 3 Jahrbuch, 1888, ii.

page 377 note 1 Euphronios,2 p. 271.

page 377 note 2 Jahrbuch, 1889 p. 199.

page 378 note 1 A. Z. 1873, ix.

page 380 note 1 Lys. c. Alc. I. 39. Pseud.-Andoc. c. Alc. 34.

page 380 note 2 Kleitodemos ap. Ath. 609 c. (Müller, , Frag. Hist. Graec. i. p. 364)Google Scholar.

page 380 note 3 Jahrbuch 1887, p. 166.