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CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. COCK GROUP (BEAZLEY); CLOSE TO PHANYLLIS PAINTER (HASPELS). LATE
SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: FEMALE BUST BETWEEN REARING SNAKES.
CAVI Inscriptions: ABOVE, IN LARGE LETTERS: Μεδεια.
CAVI Comments: HASPELS 68: "THE LONDON VASE BEARS IN BLACK THE INSCRIPTION ΜΕΔΕΙΑ, WHICH
BEAZLEY SUSPECTED TO BE MODERN (JHS 54, P. 91)." HASPELS DISCUSSES THE UNUSUAL
ORNAMENTS ON THIS VASE AND CONTINUES: "MR. PRYCE HAD THE VASE CHEMICALLY TESTED,
AND ALL THREE FEATURES - INSCRIPTIONS, TONGUES, ROSETTES -PROVED TO BE GENUINE,
ALTHOUGH THE INSCRIPTION HAD BEEN TOUCHED UP." HASPELS CONSIDERS THE LEKYTHOS
ATTIC AND NOT, AS BEAZLEY HAD THOUGHT (IBIDEM), A BOEOTIAN IMITATION.
