It no doubt suggested Tennyson’s “Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass.” Cf. l. 1142 (κήτει). Footnote 484: _Brit. School Annual_, 1901–2, pls. 18–19, p. 298; _Mon. Antichi_, i. p. 201, pls. 1–2. Footnote 485: B 130: see also p. 46. Footnote 486: No. 2422 = Furtwaengler and Reichhold, pl. 34. Footnote 487: E 811: see for other instances, Jahn, _Vasensamml. zu München_, p. lxxxv, note 600, and p. 39 above. Footnote 488: _Cat. of Terracottas_, C 12. Footnote 489: Mr. J. L. Myres, on opening a tomb at Amathus, in Cyprus, in 1894, found jugs, bowls, and other kinds of vases ranged round the body, like a dinner-service set out on a table. Footnote 490: A good instance is the Python krater in the British Museum (F 149), one of the handles of which has been repaired with lead. See also Jahn, _Vasens. zu München_, p. ci, note 731; B.M. B 607, B 608, E 106; Berlin 1768. Footnote 491: Gerhard, _Auserl. Vasenb._ ii. 145 = Reinach, ii. 75. Footnote 492: _Rev. Arch._ iii. (1904), p. 50. Footnote 493: Juvenal, xiv. 308. Footnote 494: _Vespae_, 1437. Footnote 495: The use of this form of vase is further illustrated by the _hydrophoria_-scenes on B.F. vases, in which it constantly occurs. See below, p. 166. Footnote 496: B.M. A 1054, B 450; Boeckh, _C.I.G._ i. 545. Footnote 497: See Chapter XVII., where examples are given. Footnote 498: Cf. also Bk. v. 198 ff. Footnote 499: x. 62 ff. Footnote 500: _Recherches sur les véritables Noms des Vases Grecs_, Paris, 1829. Footnote 501: _Observations sur les Noms des Vases Grecs_, etc., Paris, 1833, and _Supplément_, 1837–38. Footnote 502: _Rapporto Volcente_ in _Ann. dell’ Inst._ 1831, p. 221 ff.; and in criticism of Letronne, _Berlins ant. Bildwerke_, i. p. 342 ff., and _Ann. dell’ Inst._ 1836, p. 147 ff. Footnote 503: _Handbuch d. Archäol._ § 298–301. Footnote 504: _Ueber die hellenischen bemalten Vasen_, Munich, 1844. Footnote 505: _De Nominibus Vasorum Graecorum_, Kopenhagen, 1844. This work is very useful for its exhaustive references to classical literature. It is also critically up to the mark. Footnote 506: _Angeiologie_, Halle, 1854. Footnote 507: _Vasensamml. zu München_, p. lxxxvi ff. (1854). Footnote 508: There are some very useful articles in Daremberg and Saglio’s _Dictionnaire_ under the respective headings, so far as the work has appeared (down to M in 1904). Footnote 509: Cf. also xi. 462 D. Footnote 510: Pliny (_H.N._ iii. 82) states that the island of Pithecusa (the modern Ischia) was so called not from πίθηκος, an ape, but from πίθος (_a figulinis doliorum_), implying that wine-casks were made here in antiquity, as they are at the present day. Footnote 511: