Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 92-93.(Budapest, 2000)

SZILÁGYI, JÁNOS GYÖRGY: "Les Adieux". A Column-krater of the Syracuse Painter

6. Reverse of the column-krater fig. 5 fastened to the shield's lower rim, was intended to protect its wearer against arrows and sling-bullets;

2 it is attached, atypically, it seems, to the inner and not the outer side; decorated, beneath the ivy-shaped spots borrowed from renderings of leopardskin on vase-paintings,

3 by a single eye and below that the familiar Z-pattern and a row of dots over the fringed lower edge. The bearded warrior stands to the left; his long hair hangs down from under the helmet; around his ankles a double wrapping, perhaps 2 The most complete general account is Harva, E., ActaArch 57 (1986) 1-15. See also Snodgrass, A.M., Arms and Armours of the Greeks, London 1967,104; Knauer, E.R. Ein Skyphos des Triptolemosmalers (125. Winckelmannsprogr.), Berlin 1973, 9 and n. 24. 3 Ivy-leaf shaped spots are common in the first quarter of the century on representations of thepardalis of satyrs and on flute-cases. Some examples: Kunisch, N., Makron. Mainz 1997, pl.l 11, 334; 124, 361; 128, 372; 134, 386. etc.; CVA Br. Mus. 9. pl. 8.5b; 15.10b; 55.41b; Richter, G.M.A., - Hall, L.F., Redfigured Athenian vases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Haven 1936, pi. 38; etc. Apron in the form of a pardalis: CVA Getty Mus. 7, pl. 330, I

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