356 HISTORY OF ART IN PHOENICIA AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. is dancing vigorously. The fourth and last compartment contains a group already encountered, in part at least, on one of the Dali bowls (Fig. 272). An individual in a conical cap and quasi- Assyrian skirt threatens a winged griffin with a kind of pike ; the animal flinging his hind quarters into the air at the same moment in a kind of despairing caper. A second individual with a spear FIG. 274. Patera in the Varvakeion Museum, Athens. Diameter 8 inches. seems to stand ready to help the first. He also wears a long robe and a conical cap, the latter with a pendant tail like that of a cow. 1 1 This detail escaped Euting. He took the griffin, too, for a lion, and so fell into a mistake over the wing, which he thought was the spur of a ship appearing from
