Birch, Samuel, 1813-1885 · London, J. Murray · leaf 117
i -Hoimos. hypocraterion, or stand on which the vase was placed, was a hollow cylindrical foot, decorated with an egg- and-tongue moulding, and a reeded body, which raised the vase almost to the height of four feet. Several kinds of craters are mentioned by ancient authors, — as the Lesbian, the… … No. 152.— Celebe. period, having the subjects disposed in friezes round the body. In the few examples known with black figures, the subject is arranged in pictures. At a later time the subjects are 1 Gerhard, Berl. Ant. Bild. 357, 17 ; Ult. Rech. No. 18 ; Ussing, p. 84 ; Panofka, i. 17.
Pottery, Ancient · Pottery
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