She has dishevelled hair, bracelets, and long chiton with apoptygma to the hips, and looks downwards on the further side of her are visible the head, legs, and hinder parts of the hind substituted for her as a victim, which stands on its hind-legs to left. On the further side of it stands Agamemnon (or perhaps Calchas) to right, with face turned to front he is bearded, with himation wound round lower limbs and left arm, in left hand a sceptre in right hand he holds out the sacrificial knife with which he is about to slay Iphigeneia, who stands before him. (a) The sacrifice of Iphigeneia: In the centre is a white altar on two steps, with a chevron-pattern on the cornice and a knotted taenia hanging from the front. The handles terminate below in swans' heads, as before above, in Gorgoneia, painted white, the hair yellow on obverse, black on reverse, the pupils of the eyes black. Above the designs, tongue- and egg-patterns below, all round, maeander and crosses below the handles, palmettes.

On the neck: (a) above, laurel-wreath below, two Gryphons rushing at each other between them a palmette (b) laurel-wreath and palmettes.

Round the lip, (a) egg-moulding, (b) wave-pattern underneath, (a) ivy-wreath and wave-pattern, (b) ivy-wreath and astragalus-pattern. Apulian red-figured volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).ĭesigns black on red ground, with white accessories.

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