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Some Recent Acquisitions at Toronto

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

J. H. Iliffe
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A catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, has recently been published. A number of vases have been acquired recently, too late for inclusion; and it seems desirable to publish here the more important of these additions as nearly as possible simultaneously with the catalogue. They are as follows:

(a) A Geometric Tomb Group from Athens (PI. VI. figs. 1–4)

All the objects in this group come from a single grave, in the neighbourhood of Athens. They consist of six egg-shaped vases, two pyxides, two ‘flower-pot’ vases, a fluted glass bead, a loom-weight, a decorated bronze ‘sail’ fibula, and two bronze pins.

The following is a description of the objects:

1. Egg-shaped vase with lid. Accession No. C. 1033. Height without lid, 0·111 m. (4⅜ ins.); with lid, 0·162 m. (6⅜ ins.). Diameter, 0·099 m. (3⅞ ins.). Two string-holes in rim, four in lid, two on either side. Decoration on lid of broad and narrow bands with double row of dots near the edge. Concentric narrow bands on knob handle. On the body, main decoration is a maeander pattern, with a chessboard pattern below, and at intervals narrow bands, zigzags, and upward-pointing ray pattern. On shoulder and point of base, a broad band.

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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , November 1931, pp. 164 - 173
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1931

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References

1 Cf. drawing, Fig. 1.

2 J.d.I., I, pp. 95 sqq.

3 Ath. Mitt., XLIII (1918), pp. 50 sqq.

4 J.d.I., III (1888), pp. 361 sqq.

5 Bates, , A.J.A., 1911, pp. 1–17Google Scholar; Walters, , B.M. Cat. Bronzes, pp. 372–75Google Scholar.

6 It is of practically the same form as that illustrated by Wolters, , Ephem. Arch., 1892Google Scholar, Pl. 11, 1 (where it is labelled Boeotian). Cf. Perrot and Chipiez, VII, pp. 251–56, and reff.

7 Ath. Mitt., XLIII, Pl. 1; reproduced in Camb. Anc. Hist., Vol. I of Plates, p. 345.

8 More usual shapes are shown, ibid., Pls. II—VI.

9 For other unusual or bizarre shapes amongst Geometric vases v. Gardner, P., J.H.S., XXIV (1904), pp. 293—4Google Scholar: cup in two storeys (cf. an early Ionic double cup in Munich, Sieveking-Hackl, I. p. 50, No. 491, Abb. 65), basket vase, one-handled cup (cyathus), and ring-askos. Also Wide, S., J.d.I., XIV (1899), p. 214Google Scholar (Figs. 94, 95): basket-like cup with two tall vertical loop handles joining at top, and trefoil-mouth cup with two horizontal side handles and one vertical (at back) as in a hydria; Fig. 92 (p. 213) is the well-known amphora from Analatos. Cf. also the basket vase in Corpus Vasorum, Musée Scheurleer, III, Hb, Pl. 2, 7.

Somewhat similar to Figs. 94, 95 of Wide's article above mentioned are two vases in Munich, published by Sieveking, in J.d.I., Anzeiger, XXV (1910), pp. 488—9Google Scholar, Figs. 15, 16. They are: a basket and a three-handled bowl or cup, though this is not trefoil. See the whole article.

10 Shear, , A.J.A., XXXIV (1930), p. 410Google Scholar and Fig. 3. (Other interesting Geometric vases in the same article.)

11 C.V.A., Musée Nat. Copenhague, III, A and C (Fasc. 2), Pl. 82.

12 Not as Johansen, , for fastening a cover (Les Vases Sicyoniens, p. 67)Google Scholar.

13 Cf. Fairbanks, , Cat. of Greek and Etruscan Vases in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, I, p. 205Google Scholar.

14 E.g. Nos. 199, 207 and 208 in the Royal Ontario Museum at Toronto (Cat. of Greek Vases in the R.O.M.A., 1930).

15 Vases antiques du Louvre, I, D 81, Pl. 31.

18 Fairbanks, loc. cit., Pl. LXXVIII, 581.

17 Fairbanks, loc. cit., Pl. LXXX, 614. (From Chiusi.)

18 E.g. Fairbanks, loc. cit., Pl. LXXXVI, 646.

19 Cf. Fairbanks, loc. cit., Pl. LXXX, 613, 614; Walters, , Cat. of Greek and Etruscan Vases in the B.M., Vol. I, Pt. II, Pl. XIV, H 138Google Scholar.

20 La Grèce préclassique, Pl. 115, 14.