(a) Sacrifice of a bull: On the left is Nike to right, with hair in a knot, radiated ampyx, earrings, bracelets, and long girt chiton, on the further side of the bull. Above the designs, laurel-wreath below, maeander and crosses below the handles, palmettes. Designs red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow. The red figure calyx-krater in The Metropolitan Museum of Art heretofore attributed to the Tarporley Painter and said to have been found in Ruvo has always. On the left is an ephebos to right, with himation over left shoulder and staff in right hand above is a window. Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). Facing him is a female figure, with hair in a knot, ampyx, earrings, necklace, and long girt chiton with stripe down the side, holding out a wreath to him between them is a stele or meta. (b) Crowning of a victorious athlete: The athlete is beardless, with himation over left arm and strigil in right hand he stands to right, holding out a phiale in left hand. On the right is a female figure (Hebe ?) to left, with hair gathered in an embroidered opisthosphendone, earrings, necklace, bracelets, and long girt chiton with stripe down the side she holds out a large phiale in right hand, in which are two branches, and in her left is a white prochoos. In the centre over the altar stands a beardless male figure to left, perhaps Heracles he has slight whiskers, a wreath, himation round lower limbs and over left arm, and club in left hand in right he holds out the sacrificial knife over the bull's head. A fire is kindled on it, and on the side are three splashes of blood (?) above it hang two bucrania, to one of which a chaplet of beads is attached. The altar is oblong, and painted white it stands on two steps, and has a cornice with egg-moulding, and an upright block at each end. A chaplet of beads hangs from the horns of the bull, one of which is represented as gilded. (a) Sacrifice of a bull: On the left is Nike to right, with hair in a knot, radiated ampyx, earrings, bracelets, and long girt chiton, on the further side of the bull, whom she leads up to the altar, placing a wreath on his head. ![]() Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).ĭesigns red on black ground, with accessories of white and yellow.
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