Decoration: Body: DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH BIRD, FEEDING COCKS AND HENS
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 1654
Publication Record: Cite sous terre, Des archeologues suisses explorent la cite grecque d'Eretrie, Une exposition realisee par l'Ecole suisse d'archeologie en Grece, en collaboration avec l'Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig (Basel, 2010): 169, NO.96 (COLOUR OF PART) Deubner, L., Attische Feste (Berlin, 1932): PL.30.3-4 Deubner, L., Kleine Schriften zur klassischen Altertumskunde (Königstein, 1982): 832, FIG.A Golden, M., Children and Childhood in Classical Athens, 2nd edition (Baltimore, 2015): 32, UNNUMBERED (PART OF BD) Klein, A., Child Life in Greek Art (New York, 1932): PL.10 C Ruhfel, H., Das Kind in der Griechischen Kunst (Mainz, 1984): 99, FIG.39
CAVI Lemma: RF CHOUS (OINOCHOE). FROM ERETRIA. UNATTRIBUTED. LATE FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: AT LEFT, A BOY TO RIGHT, HOLDING A BIRD, FEEDS(?) A COCK AND A HEN; AT RIGHT,
A BOY IN A SIMILAR POSE WITH A COCK.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE NECK, GR.: Μελα̣νιππω̣ς{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} I WAS NOT CERTAIN OF THE OMEGA (FOR OMICRON?); IT IS ALMOST IN LIGATURE
WITH THE SIGMA: CLEARLY FOR Μελανιππος. IF OMEGA IS RIGHT, PERHAPS OMEGA FOR
OMICRON (ATTSCR (1990), 167). LGPN II DOES NOT LIST THIS INSTANCE OF THE NAME.
FOUR-STROKE SIGMA. OMEGA WITH THE LEFT `FOOT' ONLY?
CAVI Comments: OWNER'S INSCRIPTION. HEIGHT OF LETTERS: 0.12M.
CAVI Number: 0809
AVI Bibliography: NNN (1889), DA: 232/35. — COLLIGNON–COUVE (1902–4), NO. 1327. — DEUBNER
(1932), PL. 30, 3-4.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
