![]() (a) The sacrifice of Iphigeneia: In the centre is a white altar on two steps, with a chevron-pattern on the cornice and a knotted taenia hanging from the front. The handles terminate below in swans' heads, as before above, in Gorgoneia, painted white, the hair yellow on obverse, black on reverse, the pupils of the eyes black. Above the designs, tongue- and egg-patterns below, all round, maeander and crosses below the handles, palmettes. On the neck: (a) above, laurel-wreath below, two Gryphons rushing at each other between them a palmette (b) laurel-wreath and palmettes. Round the lip, (a) egg-moulding, (b) wave-pattern underneath, (a) ivy-wreath and wave-pattern, (b) ivy-wreath and astragalus-pattern. ![]() Apulian red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).ĭesigns black on red ground, with white accessories.
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