Decoration: Body: BIRTH OF HELEN FROM EGG ON ALTAR, WOMEN, SOME FLEEING
Last Recorded Collection: Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale
Publication Record: Comella, A and Mele, S. (eds.), Depositi votivi e culti dell'Italia antica dall'eta arcaica a quella tardo-republicana (Bari, 2005): 705, PL.1C (DRAWING) Giudice, E. and Giudice, G. (eds.), Studi miscellanei di ceramografia Greca III (Catania, 2017): 35, PL.2, FIG.4 (DRAWING) Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 6882
CAVI Collection: Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale.
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF pyxis. From Locris. Unattributed. Mid-fifth. "Little later, if at
all, than 450" (Beazley).
CAVI Subject: Fr. 1: an altar with the child Helen crawling out of an egg shell; at right,
legs of a draped woman (Leda). Fr. 2: an open hand extended to right; head and
shoulders of a woman (perhaps parts of fleeing women, from the left-hand portion
of the scene).
CAVI Inscriptions: Fr. 2: between the head and the woman's shoulders: καλον.
CAVI Comments: 2 frs. The only representation of Helen actually emerging from the egg
(Beazley). Could καλον refer to the egg, or is the last letter a sideways sigma?
CAVI Number: 6882
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), iii, 72 (mention).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
