APC Image: AK 0989: Black-figured sherds. Top left: Proto-Attic fragment of the rim (Acropolis I 369 a-b). The tail and the rump of a feline right; above, three hanging spirals. Orientalizing style. 675-640 B.C. Top middle: Fragment of lid (Acropolis I 467 and I 538). Above, women; below, animals; on the rim, geese feeding. Attic. Vourva. Early second quarter of the sixth century B.C. Top right: Fragment of the large conical foot of a vase (Acropolis I 485 a-f). Lions, snake. Early sixth century B.C. Second row, left: Fragment of plate decorated on both sides (Acropolis I 519 a-e). Animals. Fragment from ridge bottom, from the outer zone of the underside of the plate. Shows the hind legs of two felines marching in opposite directions. The peculiar combination of rings and rosettes of connected dots is characteristic of this painter. Early sixth century B.C. Second row, right: Fragment of kotyle. A, Birth of Athena; B, Greeks and Amazons (Acropolis I 597 a-e). Part of the nearly straight side. Lower part of a male figure naked but for a chlamis and walking or dancing toward the right. At the top appear the lower points of his cloak; at the right the end of the fold over his arm. From the fabric and from the drawing of the cloak and legs, the piece must come from (Acropolis 597), a skyphos surely by Klitias. The figure belongs to the side with the Birth of Athena. Ca. 560 B.C. Third row, left: Fragment of the kantharos (Acropolis I 611 a-f) A, Harnessing of the horses of Achilles. Part of the side. The piece evidently once formed part of a quadriga scene. At right is part of a chariot wheel; behind, the leg of a white horse; also behind, three other legs to the left. In the left foreground is still another leg, a red one, on either side of which hand three looped and bound tails. From its condition, fabric, and its general dimensions, the fragment must belong to the Achilles vase of Nearchos. Ca. 560-550 B.C. Developed Black Figure style. Third row, second to left: Fragment of krater(?); (Acropolis I 674 a-d). Sacrifices. Fragment from near the shoulder of the vase. The upper forepart of the man is preserved, showing that he was naked except for a cloak which left his tight shoulder free. The lower part of his bearded fface appears behind the raised right arm with which he is holding something (a wineskin (?), an amphora(?), a skaphe(?) on the right shoulder. Traces of a vertical object, a staff or the stem of an olive branch in his left hand. At least four figures are in procession to the right (on other Acropolis fragments to which this one is now added). Last quarter of the sixth century B.C. Third row, second to right: Fragment of volute krater (Acropolis I 711). On the rim, animals fighting. This fragment shows a panther attacking a bull. At the left, a tail of a second feline. There are several similar pieces among the sherds from the Acropolis, rims of vases of the type of the Francois vase (Beazley). Ca. 560-550 BC. Third row, right: Fragment of hydria (Acropolis I 733). On the shoulder, a chairot race. Part of horses of one of the quadrigae are visible. Behind the horses are the head and shoulders of a man in chiton to right. This fragment comes from the shoulder at the right of the Acropolis fragment. The ornament on the ring above the shoulder has a long history in the sixth and fifth centuries. It seems to have occurred in its Attic Form for the first time in the sixties of the sixth century and to have continued well down toward the end of the fifth. Last quarter of the sixth century B.C. Fourth row, left: Fragment of tripod kothon. Farewell scenes (Acropolis I 2201 a-b). Part of the foot and center of the vase. At the right edge of the foot is a cloaked man facing left with a staff or spear in his left hand. The space at the left of the man's arm is occupied by his chiton: it was formerly white and is incised with the cross pattern so familiar on the Francois vase. The straight panel at the left must be the mantle of a woman raised to veil her face. The third foot of the tripod should then have the same scene as the other two: warriors and women taking their farewells. From the position of the figures at the edge of the picture there must still have been room for two more figures at the left. Ca. 550 B.C. Fourth row, right: Fragment of a large pyxis with rim inset to support a lid (Acropolis I 2391a-c). First zone, procession of men and women; second, animals. Fragment from the side. The interior is unglazed and very smooth. On the upper zone only the lower edges of the women's skirts are preserved, together with the lower edge of the mantle of the woman on the left. Below, a stag or a deer to left and feline to right. Ca. 560 B.C.