CAVI Lemma: RF PYXIS WITH LID. OPPENHEIMER GROUP (BEAZLEY). THIRD QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 430
(BöHR).
CAVI Subject: BODY: IN THE CENTER, A WOMAN WITH A TORCH (GODDESS: SEE BELOW), SEATED
BETWEEN TWO COLUMNS; AT LEFT, TWO WOMEN RUNNING WHILE HOLDING HANDS, THE FRONT
ONE ALSO HOLDING A WREATH; AT RIGHT, TWO WOMEN BRINGING GIFTS (A SKYPHOS AND A
NECKLACE REPECTIVELY); AT THE FARTHER RIGHT, A WOMAN WITH A TAENIA AND A SEATED
WOMAN HOLDING OUT A PLEMOCHOE (EXALEIPTRON).
CAVI Inscriptions: BODY: TO UPPER LEFT OF THE LEFT RUNNING WOMAN: κ(α)λη. TO LEFT OF THE RIGHT
RUNNING WOMAN'S HEAD: κ(α)λ(η). TO LEFT OF THE TORCH BEARER'S HEAD: κ(α)λ^ν{1}.
TO RIGHT OF HER HEAD: κ(α)λ(η). TO LEFT OF THE CHIN OF THE WOMAN WITH THE
SKYPHOS: κ(α)λν. TO LEFT OF THE BACK OF THE WOMAN WITH A TAENIA, AT
CHEST-HEIGHT: κ(α)^λν{1}. TO UPPER LEFT OF THE SEATED WOMAN WITH THE PLEMOCHOE:
κ(α)(λ)(η).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} A COLUMN INTERVENES. THE LAST LETTER IS CLEARLY A NU.
CAVI Comments: VERY SLOPPY WRITING. IONIC ALPHABET. ETA MISWRITTEN, SOMETIMES AS A REVERSED
NU. SEVEN WOMEN AND SEVEN KALE'S, BUT SOME OF THE LATTER ARE ODDLY PLACED. HAMPE
AND SIMON INTERPRETED THE WOMAN WITH THE TORCH AS HESTIA SUPPORTING NEWLY-WEDS;
SO ALSO SARIAN. BéRARD AND SCHWENCK INTERPRET THE SCENE AS IN A SANCTUARY OF
ARTEMIS, WITH THE BRIDE (THE ONLY FIGURE WITH UNBOUND HAIR) BRINGING HER
NECKLACE AS A GIFT. BöHR PREFERS THE IDENTIFICATION AS HESTIA. BY THE SAME HAND:
THE PYXIS SAN SIMEON, HEARST, ARV[2] 1224/1 (PH. IN BEAZLEY ARCHIVE).
CAVI Number: 4918
AVI Bibliography: GRüNHAGEN (1948), 86 PR. 87. — HAMPE–SIMON (1959), 28. — ARV[2] (1963),
1224/2. — BéRARD (1974), 57 N. 1. — ADD.[2] (1989), 350. — SARIAN, LIMC V
(1990), 410, HESTIA 27, PL. 294. — E. BöHR, CVA MAINZ, UNIVERSITäT 2, GERMANY 63
(1993), PL. 26,1-5, BEILAGE 12,2; P. 44, FACSS. OF INSCRIPTIONS (BIBL.). —
OAKLEY–SINOS (1993), 14, FIGS. 6-8.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
