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## AvU&)v ihrTroPX&cOV "TUVKiVaS KOOVVOVTa (qpoayyas "Eppiov &p rE8I'ov, (pc-ra (pEpEpEOkflv. (E. Diehl, Anthologia Lyrica i, 1, p. 44, No. 13, Mimnermus). Lydian cavalry-not in battle but on parade-may well be the subject of a remarkable vase which American excavators found in Sardis in 1914. The description given by Dean George H. Chase in the inventory of pottery under No. P.280 E 'reads as follows: "Twelve fragments of a very large vase. The two fragments containing the horsemen are the most complete. Height 8 cm., Length 11 cm. Dark gray clay, slip of buff clay. The figures apparently modelled separately in gray clay and applied to the shell, after which the clay slip was applied to the whole. To the figures and to some parts of the surface a hard yellow-white slip of good quality was applied. The decoration is in lustrous black-red glaze. "The (ornamental) decoration around the figures (of horsemen) consists of double chevrons pointing upwards where the span allows them, and elsewhere of zigzags. Below the base line was a broad band of white slip painted with a guilloche; and below this came a broad band of black-red ('streaked') technique, and then a broad band of white slip

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Author

George M. A. Hanfmann

Published

1945

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)