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Xe'nocles

2. A maker of fictile vases, three or four of whose works, in an antique and beautiful style, are preserved in different collections (Mus. Blacas, pl. xix. pp. 55-60; Cab. Durand, No. 65, pp. 24-26; Bulletin. Archeol. 1840, p. 128; Gerhard, Griech. u. Etrusk. Trinkschal. d. Königl. Mus. in Berlin, pl. i., and Neuerworbene antik. Denkmäler, No. 1662, p. 26). There is another vase by the same maker in the Pinacothek at Munich, which is remarkable for not being painted : it has simply the artist's name inscribed upon it, on a yellow band, in the following manner :--

+ ΣΕΝΟΚϜΕΣ ΕΠΟΙΕΣΕΝ.

(R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, pp. 62, 63, 2d ed.)

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