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Boreas and Oreithyia on an Apulian Vase

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

H. B. Walters
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The vase which is the subject of Plate IV was recently presented to the British Museum by Mr. John Tulk of Chertsey, in whose possession it had been for many years. Mr. Tulk states that it was formerly in the possession of Earl Cadogan, and was disposed of at the sale of his antiquities at Christie's in 1865. On the rim of the vase is an impression in red wax of a seal with coat-of-arms. Enough remains of the surrounding inscription (DO · I … RE · SICIL) to show that it is the seal of Ferdinando I, King of the Two Sicilies 1815–25, with the arms of the Kingdom. Either the vase was originally in the possession of this personage, or else it is merely a confirmation of leave to export the vase from Italy. But I can glean no further information about its previous history, and it appears to have remained entirely unknown to archaeologists. It is, however, as will be seen, one of more than usual interest.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Hellenic Studies , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , November 1931 , pp. 86 - 90
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Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1931

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References

1 Hope Vases, p. 123.

2 See Roscher, , Lexikon, iii. s.v. Oreithyia, col. 951Google Scholar.

3 Heibig, Führer, No. 101; Reinach, , Répertoire, ii. 78.Google Scholar

4 E.g. B.M. F 66, F 159; Naples, 3223 (Mon. dell' Inst. ii. 43)Google Scholar; Jatta, 239 (Ann. dell' Inst. 1868Google Scholar, Pl. E). See Buschor in Furtw.-Reichh. iii. p. 168.

5 Prof. P. Gardner suggests that a similar figure on the Oxford Boreas vase (J.H.S. xviii. Pl. 6) may be either Gaia or Praxithea, the wife of Erechtheus.

6 Roscher, Lexikon, iii. col. 951.

7 Röm. Mitt. 1912, p. 168.

8 Papers of the B.S.R., xi. p. 30 ff.; Jahreshefte, xvi., p. 141 ff.

9 Hope Vases, p. 13.

10 Nos. 4 and 8 in Wernicke's list.