At the horses' heads is Lyssa to left, with floating hair, in which are twined snakes she wears a fillet, earrings, necklace, sleeved chiton reaching to the knees with engrailed border round the breast, embroidered cross-belt, skin of some animal over right arm, and endromides (as the last figure). Behind Hippolytos is a paidagogos moving to right he is bald, with white hair and beard, and wears short bordered chiton with stripes down the sides, yellow chlamys with broad purple border, fastened by a.fibula on the right shoulder, white sleeved under-garment, and laced-up endromides with tops turned over in right hand a white stick, left extended as if in supplication behind him is the stump of a tree. Below the horses are visible the head and upper part of the body of a bull to left, painted white with yellow markings. Hippolytos is beardless, and holds the goad in right hand and reins in left his hair floats behind, and he wears a cross-belt with white studs and embroidered white girdle, which holds up a himation round his lower limbs. (a) Death of Hippolytos: On the lower level is Hippolytos driving in a quadriga at full speed to right, with two white and two yellow horses, all having top-knots the quadriga and harness are painted purple, the wheels and axle white. (b) Female head to left with hair in a bunch behind, radiated and striped open cap, earrings, and necklace, resting on the calyx of a flower on either side, palmettes. It rests on a large purple flower which spreads out into tendrils and blossoms on either side.

On the neck: (a) Female head to the front inclined to right, with a Phrygian cap tied under the chin, and long curls, the face white with features in yellow, and the cap red. The handles terminate below in swans' heads, and above in Gorgoneia those in front, white with yellow hair those at the back, black throughout. Below the handles, palmettes below the designs, all round, maeander above each, tongue-pattern and egg-moulding. On the neck, above the designs, (a) dentils in perspective, edged with white (b) laurel-wreath. On the lip, egg-moulding underneath, wave-pattern. Apulian pottery red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).ĭesigns red, white, yellow, and purple, on black ground.

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