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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2013
The subject of the exploits of Theseus as seen on Greek vase-paintings has recently been treated by Professor Milani in a long and interesting paper in the Museo Italiano di antichità classica (iii. 1, p. 236). I propose therefore to set aside all general consideration of the myth and its typography, and to confine myself to the discussion and elucidation of two hitherto unpublished vases (plates I., II.), one of them included in Professor Milani's list, one entirely unknown to him, and both, as I hope to show, having strong claims on the attention of archaeologists. They are (1) a red-figured vase, which for convenience sake I shall call from its owner the Tricoupi cylix; (2) the fragments of a red-figured cylix from the De Luynes collection in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris.
1. The Tricoupi cylix, plate I. When I was in Athens in the spring of 1888, Miss Tricoupi with her accustomed kindness, so familiar to all visitors to Athens, allowed me to examine at my leisure her brother's collection of antiquities. I found to my surprise that it contained a vase which I have reason to believe is from the hand of Duris, and of which, so far as I am aware, no mention has been made in the numerous discussions of vases dealing with the exploits of Theseus, and which therefore, I suppose to be entirely unknown. I record here my grateful thanks to Miss Tricoupi for her kind permission to publish the vase, and for her goodness in facilitating its exact reproduction. The drawing from which plate I. is facsimiled was made for me by M. Gilliéron under my own personal supervision, and I can therefore vouch for its perfect accuracy. I was specially anxious to secure its.immediate publication as, though the vase is at present in such safe hands, the security of antiquities in private collections is always precarious.
page 232 note 1 In a brief note on the inscription of the vase in the Classical Review, July 1888, I gave by an oversight the name of the giant as Kerkyon.
page 238 note 1 This vase—long supposed to be at Siena—is noted by Mr. Talfourd Ely (J. H. S. ix. 2, p. 276) as having passed into the collection of Harrow School. It is No. 52 in Mr. Cecil Torr's ‘Catalogue of Classical Antiquities’ at Harrow.
page 238 note 2 For a knowledge of this fragment, which I have not myself seen, I am entirely indebted to the kindness of Dr. M. Mayer, who placed his tracing of the fragment at my disposal and suggested the restoration.
page 241 note 1 This scabbard does not appear in the publication of the Duris vase by Gerhard (A. V. ccxxxiv.), but is clearly visible in the vase itself, and is given by Mr.Smith, Cecil in his list of corrections, Jahrbuch III. 1888, p. 143.Google Scholar
page 241 note 2 I should like to say here that if the restoration given should appear unsatisfactory to any archaeologist, it would interest me greatly to know the grounds of objection, and I should be glad to forward prints of the original photographs of the fragment to any one who would be disposed to make a different restoration.
