[504]. Ueber die hellenischen bemalten Vasen, Munich, 1844.
[505]. De Nominibus Vasorum Graecorum, Kopenhagen, 1844. This work is very useful for its exhaustive references to classical literature. It is also critically up to the mark.
[506]. Angeiologie, Halle, 1854.
[507]. Vasensamml. zu München, p. lxxxvi ff. (1854).
[508]. There are some very useful articles in Daremberg and Saglio’s Dictionnaire under the respective headings, so far as the work has appeared (down to M in 1904).
[509]. Cf. also xi. 462 D.
[510]. Pliny (H.N. iii. 82) states that the island of Pithecusa (the modern Ischia) was so called not from πίθηκος, an ape, but from πίθος (a figulinis doliorum), implying that wine-casks were made here in antiquity, as they are at the present day.
[511]. Athen. xi. 465 A, and cf. 495 B; Il. xxiv. 527; see Ussing, p. 33, and Suidas, s.v. The comic poets also speak of a πιθάκνη, or small πίθος, used for holding wine at festivals.
[512]. See Chapter [XX]., and a relief in the Villa Albani, Helbig, Führer2, ii. p. 56, No. 853; cf. also Hesychius, ἐν πίθῳ, and Ar. Eq. 792.