The object of this paper is to bring before the notice of the Society two unpublished vases relating to the escape of Odysseus and his comrades from the cave of Polyphemus. I shall endeavour to show:

1st. The place that these two vases take in the history of vase painting, and certain special points of interest that attach to each of them.

2nd. The relation of the designs on each of these vases to what I must call the ‘typography’ of the myth they represent.

The two questions can in fact, as it is now well understood, scarcely be considered apart. To analyse a vase satisfactorily it is as necessary to consider its ‘typography,’ i.e. the exact form in which the legend is embodied, and the relation of that form to other forms preceding and following, as it is to discuss the actual technique of the design.