[57] Cf. e.g. Zahn, Berichte der sächsischen Gesellschaft, 1854, p. 40, note 46; British Museum, Guide to Greek and Roman Life (2d edition), 1920, p. 181, fig. 217 (No. 1905.6-13.1); Déchelette, Les vases céramiques ornés de la Gaule romaine, II, 1904, p. 338.
[58] Nowadays plaster or wood is the usual material for such wheel-heads.
[59] Cf. e.g. Fabroni, Storia degli antichi vasi fittili aretini, 1841, pl. III, 9, 10; V, 7, 8, 9; p. 64, and Daremberg et Saglio, Dictionnaire, under figlinum, p. 1122, fig. 3036.
[60] Cf. e.g. Nos. 15.163.1, 17.120.250 in the Metropolitan Museum.
[61] Cf. e.g. Iliad, XVIII, 599-601, quoted below.
[62] Cf. Reisner, Naga-ed-Dêr, I, p. 133.
[63] This information I owe to Mr. Binns.
[64] Cf. G. P. Stevens in Fowler-Wheeler, Greek Archaeology, p. 102.
[65] See especially Pottier, Catalogue des Vases au Musée du Louvre, III, pp. 690 ff.
[66] There is no reason to assume, as has been done by Walters, History of Ancient Pottery, I, pp. 132 and others, that these lekythoi are the beautiful white lekythoi in our collections; it is more likely that they are the very roughly painted little jugs found in large quantities in tombs, but rarely placed with selected museum examples.