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Hearst Museum object titled Amphora, accession number 8-3377, described as Attic black-figure amphora of “doubleen” shape; A, combat of three warriors; at left archer to left looking round; at right two hoplites fighting, one fallen to ground (his sheild blazon a white tripod); B, Dionysos standing to right., head turned back, holding rhyton and branch, between dancing satyr and maenad; on neck, lotus-palmette on shoulder, tongues. Height 32.0 cm Diameter 18.2 cm.

Hearst Museum object titled Amphora type a, accession number 8-60, described as Attic black-figure amphora type B; A, Achilles pursuing Troilos; at left, Athena; at right, Polyxena; her hydria has dropped but not broken; B, departure of warriors with chariot; at right, mantled figure; beneath horses, small mantled figure - a child (?); above each scene, lotus palmette frieze; at base, rays. height 45.7; diameter 30.7 cm. Vessel features Homeric epic scene.

Hearst Museum object titled Cup, accession number 8-3216, described as Attic Red-figure kylix; put together from fragments; foot modern; Interior: youth, with chlamys and akontion, standing to left; border of maeander and saltire squares; A, two youths, one with chlamys, strigil and staff or akontion, the other with akontion; B, similar, but both figures given strigils; palmette complexes at handles.

Hearst Museum object titled Neck-amphora, accession number 8-3853, described as Attic black-figure neck-amphora; A; Theseus slaying the Minotaur, between Ariadne (?) and a youth; B: warrior greaving, helmet at feet, between a youth with scepter and a woman with two spears and, at her feet, a shield on neck, lotus palmette; shoulder, tongues; below pictures, lotus frieze, rays; at handles, lotus-palmette complexes

Hearst Museum object titled Neck-amphora, accession number 8-3376, described as Attic black-figure neck-amphora; some restoration in plaster on side B; on neck, lotus-palmette chain; on shoulder, tongues; below scenes, lotus, rays at handles, lotus-palmette compelxes; A, Hermes, Athena, Herkales (Latin: Mercury, Minerva, Hercules), and panther; B, Apollo playing cithara, Artemis (Latin: Diana) and Leto (or 2 muses) and deer. Height, 41.7 diameter 28.1 cm

Hearst Museum object titled Oinochoe (olpe), accession number 8-3379, described as Attic black-figure olpe; refoil mouth, bifid handle; in panel to right of handle, Dionysos, carrying (?) vine, and four satyrs ; two of them bear askoi, which also serve as apotropaic eyes, the others strike attitueds in the corners; above frieze of lotus; on reverse of body, the usual reserved triangles. Height including handle 27.0 cm; Diameter is 13.7cm

Hearst Museum object titled Plastic lekythos, accession number 8-1796, described as East Greek (probably Rhodian) plastic lekythos in form of bust of young girl; orifice broken off; pinkish-buff clay; no slip; details in brownish black paint; figure wears earrings and chiton. Description from Matteucig (1951): Plastic Lekythos; height; 10.2 cm; depth 5.5 cm; width, 6.7 cm (see Matteucig's plate XVI, 17). “Gorgoneion" fabric. Bust of a young man. Clay, pinkish buff; some mica particles. No slip. Sheen on surface is the result of thin wash of glaze; where applied as dark paint, the glaze, which varies from brownish to black according to thickness, is not very lustrous. Orifice broken off. For a more detailed description and excellent illustrations of this piece see Professor H. R. W. Smith's account in C.W.A., University of California, fasc. 1, p. 55 and Pl. LVII, 1a–d. For the “Gorgoneion” group of East Greek plastic vases, cf. Maximova, pp. 174–175 and Pls. XXII-XXV, especially Pl. XXIV, 95a-b; C.W.A., France, fasc. 10, Bibl. Nat., fasc. 2, pl. 93, 9–12; C.V.A., Copenhagen Mus. Nat., fasc. 2, pl. 81, 1; Albizzati, pl. 9, 112; E. R. Price, East Greek Pottery, p. 37 ff.: C.W.A., Oxford, fasc. 2, p. 85, pl. 7. British Museum no. 47.86.36, is perhaps the closest parallel to our specimen. For a full-length figure of this fabric, see H. Stuart Jones, The Sculptures of the Palazzo dei Conservatori, Oxford, 1926, p. 197, pl. 76, no. 20: this piece was reviewed by Professor J. D. Beazley inJ.H.S., XLVII, 1927, p. 146 and dated to the end of the seventh century.

Hearst Museum object titled Pseudo-panathenaic amphora, accession number 8-3380, described as Attic black-figure pseudo-panathenaic amphora; small size; intact, except for minor chipping; a) athena promachos to left between Doric columns; Her blazon, three white pellets; b) Komos of three young men wearing chlamydes.

Hearst Museum object titled Skyphos, accession number 8-4581, described as Attic Red-figure skyphos; some repainting; A, boy and erast, the former with a lyre, the latter holding a strigil and leaning on a stick; B, palaistra: nude youth holding mantle over outstretched arms; erast holding youth’s strigil in right hand, staff in 1.; to left of youth, goal pillar; base strip of maeander and saltire squares; palmette complexes at handles. Height: 19 cm, Width/breadth: 34 cm, Diameter: 23.5 cm