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The museums in Agrinion and Ioannina possess a number of small squat-lekythoi, decorated usually with a single figure flanked by spiral tendrils, which may be seen to form a group. To this nucleus other examples may be added from the Balkans, Italy, and Switzerland. These are all minor vases, but they are of some interest if, as seems possible, they represent a local fabric from north-west Greece.
1 I am most grateful to Dr. Fede Berti (Ferrara), Professor H. Bloesch, Dr. Angelos Horemis (Corfu), and the authorities of the Civico Museo in Milan for providing photographs and the permission to publish them. Professor A. D. Trendall kindly read a number of drafts of this article, and I have benefited from his advice and encouragement. I have tried, but failed, to obtain photographs of the vases in Agrinion and Ioannina.
2 Compare, for example, Geneva 12405, CVA i pls. 22, 23–4; and the numerous pieces in Venedikov, I.et al., Apoloniya (Sofia, 1963) pls. 13–45.Google Scholar
3 They do not seem to be South Italian, a point which Professor Trendall kindly confirms.
4 See Hammond, N. G. L., Epirus (Oxford, 1967) map 3 on p. 47Google Scholar and p. 51 for a general description of the cemetery excavated in 1961; also Deltion 17/2 (1961–2) 187–94; 19/2 (1964) 305–9; 25/2 (1970) 308–10; AAA iii (1970) 41–5. I. Vokotopoulou, Ὸδηλὸς Μουσείου Ἰωαννίνων (Athens, 1973) 86.
5 Information kindly supplied by Dr. Angelos Horemis.
6 ARV 2 (1486) 70 and (1491) 185.
7 Iliria i. 130 fig. 26: the objects from Tomb 73 are illustrated on pls. xxiii.9; xxxiii.7; xli.4; xlii.1; xliii.5; xliv.3.
8 Iliria i pl. xxiii.9.
9 Deltion 25/2 (1970) 308–10. Reference is made to Franke, P., Die antiken Münzen von Epirus (1961) pl. 6, V22–R26.Google Scholar
10 Bernabò-Brea, L. and Cavalier, M., Meligunis-Lipára ii. 23 and 221.Google Scholar
11 For example, a vase once London Market, Folio Fine Art (ex Sotheby, Sale Cat. 29.7.69, no. 274, 2), Trendall, A. D. and Cambitoglou, Alexander, The Red-Figured Vases of Apulia i (Oxford, 1978) 293 no. 11/60Google Scholar; somewhat later an example in the Magnini Collection, at Deruta, Dareggi, G., Vasi apuli nella collezione Magnini a Deruta (Perugia, 1975) pl. xii.2.Google Scholar I ought to mention here a squat lekythos in Castle Ashby which has recently been published as South Italian in CVA Castle Ashby pl. 55, 2–3. The scheme of decoration is not unlike that in the vases of the Agrinion Group, but the female figure and floral are in red-figure and white is used sparingly. I am grateful to Professor C. M. Robertson for sending me photographs of this vase.
12 It is worth mentioning some of these local red-figure pieces, few of which have been published: (a) Agrinion, large pelike, shoulder, A: sphinxes confronted (1. has goat horns, r. has head of bearded male); shoulder, B: two antithetical sphinxes; body, A: Eros flying to r. holding a sash, woman seated to 1. on klismos; body, B: two draped women moving to r. (b) Ioannina, large pelike with lid; neck, A: seated woman flanked by spiral tendrils; neck, B: similar, body, A: woman standing, Eros seated, woman seated; body, B: two women dancing, (c) Ioannina, lekanis, women, (d) Ioannina 3943, from Michalitsi T. 12, pelike, A, draped woman (?) holding a strigil, B, draped woman holding a tympanon, B, Deltion, 25/2 (1970) pl. 269a3, and AAA iii (1970) 45 fig. 10. (e) Ioannina, from Kerasson (District of Preveza), pelike, A, woman running to r. flanked by tendrils, B, ?, A, BCH 1xxxiv (1960) 744 fig. 1.
13 A second oinochoe from Vitsa, of the same shape, is displayed in Ioannina, but it is in black glaze.
14 NSc 1927, 156.
15 ARV 2 1353–3. See also remarks by Green, J. R., BSA lxvi (1971) 190 n. 6.Google Scholar
