Decoration: Body: OEDIPUS KILLING THE SPHINX, APOLLO SEATED WITH LAUREL STAFF, ATHENA, DEVICE, LAUREL WREATH, YOUTHS WITH SPEARS, ONE SEATED, SOME IN BOOTS, ONE IN CHLAMYS, ALL NAMED, AINEIAS, KASTOR, POLYDEUKES
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E696
CAVI Lemma: RF squat lekythos. From Marion (Cyprus). Manner of Meidias Painter. Late
fifth.
CAVI Subject: In the center, Oedipus, before an Ionic column, slaying the sphinx; at left,
Aeneas, a tree, and Athena; at right, higher, Apollo seated, Castor and Pollux.
CAVI Inscriptions: Most inscriptions above the heads: Αινεας. Αθηνα{1}. Οιδι^πος{2}. Beside
Apollo's head: Απολλων. Καστωρ. Πολυδευκης.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Threatte (1980), 272. {2} on either side of the column. C. Smith
wrongly read Οιδιπους (Beazley in AJA).
CAVI Comments: Oedipus slays the sphinx with his spear (an alternate version); Burn thinks
the scene is atticized because of the presence of Athena, whence Oedipus is more
militant, like Theseus.
CAVI Number: 4637
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 344-45. — Beazley (1950), 311 n. 2. — ARV[2]
(1963), 1325/49. — Burn (1987), 47-48, 111/MM 78, pl. 32,a-c. — Add.[2] (1989),
364.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)