PLATE LIX
Nike
A winged Nike ("Victory"), clad in chiton and himation, and wearing a tongued diadem, pours out wine from an oinochoë, held in her right hand, into a saucer resting in the hand of an armed Greek warrior. The kerykeion, or caduceus, in the left hand of the goddess signifies that she is bringing a message of victory. From a red-figured Attic lekythos of the early fifth century b.c., found at Gela (Monumenti Antichi, xvii, Plate XIII). See p. 283.
