[1183]. Revue des Études Grecques, 1895, p. 161 ff.

[1184]. Cf. the archaic Rhodian vases in the form of helmeted heads (e.g. B.M. A 1117, 1118, 1121; Pl. [XLVI]. fig. 1).

[1185]. Bull. de Corr. Hell. 1895, p. 89.

[1186]. Cf. J.H.S. vi. p. 185.

[1187]. Examples of the earliest are Nos. 9–12, 16–18 in list below; of the second, Nos. 8, 13, 15 in list below.

[1188]. Bull. de Corr. Hell. 1892, p. 240 ff.

[1189]. The principal decorative patterns are the guilloche or plait-band; maeander, often combined with stars, as on the “Pontic” vases; palmettes; a bold egg-and-dart pattern of Ionic type. For an Egyptian prototype of the maeander-and-star pattern, cf. Perrot, Hist. de l’Art, i. fig. 541.

[1190]. Mon. dell’ Inst. xi. 53 = No. 15 below.

[1191]. The following bibliography may be useful: J.H.S. iv. p. 1 ff.; Bull. de Corr. Hell., 1892, p. 240 ff., 1895, p. 69 ff.; Murray, Terracotta Sarcophagi in Brit. Mus. p. 1 ff., and id. in Monuments Piot, iv. p. 27 ff.; Revue des Études Grecques, 1895, p. 161 ff.

CHAPTER IX
ATHENIAN BLACK-FIGURED VASES