Decoration: Body: APOLLO SEATED PLAYING LYRE, MUSES, COLUMN
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 1241
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: CC1553
Publication Record: Archontidou, A. et al., Geschenk van de Muzen, Muziek en dans in het oude Griekenland. Μοuson Dora. Μοusikoi kai choreutikoi apoikoi apo tin archaia Εllada (Athens, 2003): 219, NO.102 (COLOUR OF PART) Beck, F., Album of Greek Education (Sydney, 1975): PL.74.368 (PART) Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique: 109 (1985), 211, FIG.11, 220, FIG.21 (PARTS) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ATHENS, MUSEE NATIONAL 2, III.ID.12, PLS.(076,077,078) 18.1.5-6, 19.2-4, 20.1 View Whole CVA Plates Imago Musicae, International Yearbook of Musical Iconography: 8 (1991) 74, FIG.3 (PART OF BD) Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 761 Kaltsas N. (ed.), Agon, Exhibition catalogue (Athens, 2004): 265, NO.149 (COLOUR OF PARTS) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL. 242, APOLLON 704 (PART) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 158, FIG.6 (PART) Mouseion: 49 (2005) 18, PL.8 (PART) Roberts, S., The Attic Pyxis (Chicago, 1978): PL.75.5 (PART) Schmidt, S., Rhetorische Bilder auf attischen Vasen, Visuelle Kommunikation im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Berlin, 2005): 144-145, FIG.71 (PARTS OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: RF pyxis with lid. Unattributed. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 430.
CAVI Subject: Apollo and eight Muses; column; one Muse is seated and tuning her lyre; a
standing Muse to her right looks at her with an open book roll.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the book roll: white dots imitating writing, roughly arranged in five rows
and (as Turner saw) two columns of writing.
CAVI Comments: As Pöhlmann points out, the lyre and the book roll go together. I believe the
dots imitate writing, not musical notation.
CAVI Number: 0761
AVI Bibliography: Turner (1952), 14. — S. Karouzou, CVA Athens 2, Greece 2 (1954), III I d,
pls. 18,1,5-6, 19,2-4, 20,1. — Immerwahr (1964), 29/23, fig. 6. — Pöhlmann
(1976), 58-59 and 73/23.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
