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| A life-size female figure. Missing: head, right arm below elbow, left arm just below shoulder legs below knees.
Left shoulder mended from several fragments.
Island (Parian) marble.
Cf. S 1852 (Η' 920), ... 5th century B.C ... Draped Female Figure: Nereid Akroterion |
Small piece from top.
Preserved is part of a shield seen from the side, with a large bearded head as device, and uncertain remains of representation: drapery(?).
Glaze rather dull.
ADDENDA Nereid with ... April 1954 ... ADDENDA Nereid with arms of Achilles? |
Mouth, neck, handle, most of shoulder and wall missing. General type as P 24316 (ΣΑ 2526): This is the characteristic general type for the large proportion of the lekythoi from this group. Bell mouth with ... May-June 1954 ... Scene: Peleus right embracing Thetis (parts of both figures missing); on each side, a Nereid running away (top of head and one leg of the left hand Nereid only preserved; head and left shoulder of the right one missing). |
| Sizable fragment from statue of draped figure riding an animal; Nereid on dolphin, part of an akroterion.
Temple of Ares Series.
Pentelic marble.
Belongs with NM 3397, joins NM 4798.
Transferred to the ... 26 June 1959 ... Sizable fragment from statue of draped figure riding an animal; Nereid on dolphin, part of an akroterion.
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| Upper right quarter of thin plaque; front and back surfaces and a curving edge at top.
The front bears in relief the nude upper part, except the right arm, of a woman (Nereid ?) looking to her right. A ... 3 May 1951 ... The front bears in relief the nude upper part, except the right arm, of a woman (Nereid ?) looking to her right. |
| Medallion, mended from six fragments. An Eros rides on the tail of a Nereid, left, who blows on a conch shell and carries a jug(?). Around the medallion, two scraped grooves; between them the stain of ... 9 March 1933 ... An Eros rides on the tail of a Nereid, left, who blows on a conch shell and carries a jug(?). |
P 134 andThree non-joining wall fragments, P 5110 a with roots of one handle. Glaze flaked in many places; fired brown on much of inside. P.H. of P 5110 a) 0.185; P.W. 0.29; max. dim. P 134: 0.184, P 5110 ... Third quarter of the 5th century B.C ... P 5110 a preserves a Nereid (head, right hand and foot, most of left arm missing) hurrying to left, probably looking back since she is next to the handle. ... On his right, opposite his hind legs a Nereid (lower part of chiton and himation) runs to right. P 5110 b preserves the right foot and bottom
of a long chiton of someone, probably a Nereid, standing opposite Chiron, the right foot and the toes of the left foot of the centaur and the end of his branch. |
| Piece from handle missing. General type as P 24316 (ΣΑ 2526): This is the characteristic general type for the large proportion of the lekythoi from this group. Bell mouth with variations in height and ... May-June 1954 ... Scene: Herakles struggling with the Triton; a Nereid fleeing to the left; on the right a rock. |
Four non-joining fragments of rim and wall with start of underside. P 18414 a + c and P 18007 preserve the full profile of the rim. Glaze much pitted on outside. Est. diam. at rim 0.218; max. dim. P 18414 ... Ca. 460 B.C ... Fragment P 18414 d + P 18007 gives most of the head and outstretched right arm of another Nereid dressed in a chiton and holding a dolphin (head) in her left hand (now missing). Fragment e preserves a hand, very likely that of the left Nereid on P 18414 a + c. ... Dilute glaze: muscles; folds of chiton of Nereid to left of altar.
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| Five non-joining fragments preserve rather more than half the circumference at the rim and part of the figured scene. Wall profile slightly concave; narrow rim, unglazed, flat on top. Inside, good black ... 5-6 August 1947 ... c), d), e) From the other side of the vase, depicting a fourth and a fifth Nereid and a rim fragment with part of a dolphin(?) |
Fifteen non-joining fragments of wall, P 18278 b--c and P 19582 a--d of torus rim with zone of ornament below. Glaze mottled here and there; has a greenish cast in places; abraded in part on rim. Max ... Ca. 480 B.C ... The composition of Side A, from what remains, seems to be as follows: at the left, a woman, probably Thetis or a Nereid, stands to right, surely holding something in her now missing left hand, perhaps a helmet or a greave (see below). ... If the Second Arming is the correct identification of the scene on 256, then the woman on P 19582 i is a Nereid and stands at the left of the composition with someone (Thetis[?]) ... Thus, the composition might have looked like this: (1) a Nereid holding a helmet or sword and perhaps the greaves; (2) Thetis with shield and spear, facing (3) Achilleus.
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