The instruments are the same as usual--the lyre, the tambourine, and the double pipe; two of the performers march at a steady pace; the third, the one who beats the metal( ?) disk, dances, as he plays, with much vigour and spirit.

In the last compartment we come again upon a group that we have already met with in one of the cups from Idalium.[775].

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A beardless individual, clothed in the _shenti_, has put his foot upon the body of a griffin, which, in struggling against the pressure, flings its hind quarters into the air in a sort of wild caper; the conqueror, however, holds it fast by the plume of feathers which rises from its head, and plunges his sword into its half-open beak.