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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2013
Among the most interesting discoveries of the post-war years in Attica are a Late Geometric amphora and an impressed gold head-band; they are reported to have been found, the band inside the amphora, near Koropi in the Mesogaia, and were acquired together by Mrs. Helen Stathatou, who has graciously consented to my making them more widely known in this tribute to the master of Greek archaeology for whom both she and I have so high a regard. Each is a first-rate piece in itself, and the discovery of the two in one burial gives an added interest to the pair.
1 Cf. BSA XLII 146 ff.
2 Robinson, Harcum, and Iliffe, 630, pl, 101.
3 Reichel, W., Griechisches Goldrelief (Schriften z. Kunst d. Altertums, d. arch. Inst., Bd. 5, Berlin 1942), § 2.Google Scholar
4 Reichel, no. 22, pl. 5; the band is described AA 1904, 40 under inv. no. 8578.
5 AZ XLII (1884), Pl. 9, 1; Reichel, no. 21.
6 Copenhagen 727, CVA II Pls. 73.5a–b, 74.2–6.
7 W. Hahland (Corolla Curtius 126) seems to suggest that the vessels portrayed prizes in funerary contests.
8 The traces of a tail in the drawing of panel 3 bis and of an extra foreleg in panel 3 are perhaps indicated a shade too positively; it is impossible to be certain that they were attached thus in the original design.
9 Cf. especially Corolla Curtius 130 f., with the choice between dissociation and allegory.
10 Op. cit. 31.
11 AZ XLII (1884). pl. 9–2. This remarkable theme also recurs on the kantharos in Copenhagen.
12 The Berlin band is said to have been found in a pitcher at Menidi (AA 1904, 40). The two bands in Copenhagen were found in the Dipylon cemetery together with the kantharos already mentioned and other objects acquired by the same museum. Prof. Riis has sent me the following note of the find: ‘The band Inv. No. 741 was found in 1872 in the Geometric cemetery just opposite the Orphanotropheion (cf. Adi 1872, 135 ff.). It seems to be identical with the band Adi 1872, 136 no. 3, 155 no. 3. Other objects with the same provenance: Inv. Nos. 723 (Blinkenberg Fibules, 153, 171, no. VIII 5 i); 726 (CVA II pls. 72.4a–b, 74.1); 727 (CVA II pls. 73–5a–b, 74.2–6); 740 (AZ 1884, pl. 9.2); 742 (Blinkenberg, Fibules, 153, 171, no. VIII 5 g.; probably identical with the fibula Adi 1872, 136 no. 2).’
13 The feline hind quarters of the ‘centaur’ on a figured band from the Dipylon (C. L. Scheurleer, Catalogus eener Versameling no. 536, pl. 51; Reichel, no. 11), as perhaps also the legless rider in panel no. 10 above, suggest that the new forms were still in an experimental stage.
