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Title: Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities Walters, Henry Beauchamp, 1867-1944
Subjects: Bronzes -- Catalogs Art, Ancient
Publisher: London, Printed by order of the Trustees
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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al cap and long chiton, the reins round his waist likea girdle ; the prostrate man lies on his r. side with face to the ground and1. hand on thigh, r. hand stretched beyond head; aboveit is drapery which, extendingfrom the 1. arm, forms asupport for the fore-feet ofthe horses ; he is nude andbeardless, with thick hair, andover his 1. arm is drapery. Ht. 4f in. From Palestrina.Castellani, 1873. 650. Situla. On either side,below the handles, is a reliefof a winged female daemonor death-goddess holding upa nude youth with eitherhand; she has dishevelledhair, with a plait over the fore-head, and a girt chiton reach-ing to the thighs ; the figureterminates in a birds bodyand legs. A very similarfigure is to be seen on ablack-figured hydria inBerlin (Cat. 2157), pro-bably of Etruscan fabric,for which see Jalirbuch, i.(1886), p. 210 ; this figure may be called a Harpy, but see Journ. Hell. Stud.xiii. p. 103 ff., and Arch. Zeit. 1882, p. 197 ff. Round the upper part of the situla are bands of
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I08 CATALOGUE OF BRONZES. bead-moulding, egg-pattern, and lotos-and-honeysuckle pattern between bandsof hatched lines in triangles ; round the lower part, similar patterns (no bead,and double oblique palmettes instead of lotos-and-honeysuckle) ; these bandsof ornament are partly modern. The handles are loose and in the form ofcables ; they are attached to double rings each side, and end in large buds ;between the rings are scollop-shells. The situla stands on three feet in the form of lions claws on moulded basesand square plinths ; above each, resting on an egg-moulding with a volute ateach end, is a group of Heracles strangling the Nemean lion. Heracleskneels on r. knee to 1., grasping the lion with r. hand round its neck ; he isbeardless, and wears short chiton and cuirass. The lion is seated on itshaunches and places 1. fore-paw on Heracles 1. knee ; a ridge of plaited hairextends from the mane to the tail (cf. the group of Heracles and the horses ofDiomede, No. 642). For this typ

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