Scene on an Ionic amphora in the collection of the Marquis of Northampton. The god Dionysos and a company of satyrs are drinking and making merry. The wine is in a lebes on a tripod at the right. A satyr is dipping it out with an oinochoë without taking the trouble to use a ladle. Dionysos himself holds up his large kantharos, and the satyr at the left grasps a wine-skin and a drinking-horn. ] [Illustration: Scene on a red-figured kylix in the Antiquarium, Munich. Herakles, wearied with his labors, is seated on a rock, while Athena, his patroness, pours wine for him from an oinochoë into a kantharos. The trefoil-shaped mouth of the oinochoë can be plainly seen. ] [Illustration: Detail from a scene on the Ficoroni Cista in the Museo Kircheriano in Rome. A young man is drinking from a kylix which he holds by one handle. ] [Illustration: Scene on a hydria in the Torlonia Collection in Rome. Two girls are drawing water at a public fountain into large hydriai or water-jars. The girl at the left is lifting her jar upon her head. The other is putting a little cushion for protection on her head, meanwhile holding her dress away from the water. ] [Illustration: Scene on a red-figured krater in the Antiquarium, Berlin. Two young men are preparing for exercise in a gymnasium. One of them is pouring oil into his hand from an aryballos attached to his wrist by a cord, in order to rub the liquid over his body. ] [Illustration: Scene on a red-figured pyxis in the British Museum. A bride is being dressed for her wedding; a little maid is fastening her shoes while another is bringing her jewelry in a box. At the door stand two marriage vases filled with twigs, and a loutrophoros nearby also contains branches or flowers. On a little chest stands a pyxis or perfume vase. A mirror hangs on the wall. ] [Illustration: Scene from a polychrome lekythos in the National Museum, Athens. Such lekythoi were made especially for offerings to the dead. This picture shows a woman bringing wreaths in a basket to place on a gravestone on the steps of which are lekythoi and oinochoai. Behind the monument appears the mound over the grave. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 2. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as printed. 3. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Shapes of Greek Vases, by The Metropolitan Museum of Art