11. Goldamphorawith handlesformedby the figuresof centaurs and with a figuredsceneon the body.Height (withoutthe handles) 24.5cm. decoration in relief on the outside: around the center are twelve rosettes, outside of these are twenty-four acorns, and around these are three rows, each containing twenty-four heads of Negro types, between which are palmettes and lotuses. The variety of expressions and features of the faces can be seen in Figure 10. The most elaborately decorated vessel of the collection is the gold amphora shown in Figures 11-16. Its size and weight (1,695.25 grams) are also much greater than those of the other vessels. The amphora has a rounded bottom with a five-petaled rosette in relief ; hence it has no base on which to stand. On the lower part of the body are two Negro heads placed opposite each other, their open mouths serving as orifices for the liquid to flow out. They remind one of the Chertomlik amphora found in South Russia. Above them on one side a kneeling satyr with a double flute points a kantharos (drinking cup) at one of the Negro heads as if intending to fill it with wine. On the other side the infant Herakles, also kneeling, is shown in the act of throttling the snakes sent by Hera. The main scene on the amphora shows an elaborately decorated palace gate with a guard and seven armed figures (Figure 12). Two of the latter are conversing and the other five are attacking the gate. The presence of the bugler blowing his war bugle is the clue to the interpretation of the scene. In Greek antiquity we have only one legend in which such a bugle is mentioned, that in which Achilles is discovered by Odysseus and Diomedes hiding on the 224