A Nolan Amphora of the Kleophrades Painter

Abstract

MONG the many vases which modern scholarship has attributed to the Kleophrades A Painter' there was until now only one small Nolan amphora.2 Even this is not one of his best works. I believe that a second Nolan amphora can be added to the list, a piece which ranks with his best work. The small neck-amphora with tri-partite handles3 illustrated here on pl. LXIII, belongs to the collection of the Gustav-Ltibcke Museum in Hamm, Westphalia, which was hitherto entirely unknown to scholarship.4 The vase was a gift to the Museum. It was put together from sherds; in addition to minor fractures, a few pieces are unfortunately missing. The brilliant black glaze has flaked off at some of the points of fracture. Nothing has been restored. The glazed foot is profiled, and a low plastic ring, emphasized by incised lines above and below, runs around the vase at the point where the foot joins the body. The handles are black with shallow longitudinal channels. A second thin plastic ring stands at the base of the neck; the latter is slightly concave. The profiled lip with a flat upper surface, left in the natural color of the clay, is marked off from the neck by a groove. Beneath the figures on either side is an interrupted maeander band. On Side A a young warrior strides toward the left, wearing a helmet and greaves and carrying a shield and spear. He wears an armored chiton decorated with stars, and a himation with a band at the border. The device on the shield consists of three stars and a cres-