Decoration: Body: PELEUS AND THETIS, CHIRON WITH TORCHES, ALTAR WITH SNAKE, PALM TREE, NEREID FLEEING, MOCK INSCRIPTIONS (DOTS)
Last Recorded Collection: Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: 1925.30.49
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, HOPPIN AND GALLATIN COLLECTIONS, 11-12, PL.(19) 19.1.3 View Whole CVA Plates Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 233.20 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.188, CHEIRON 23 Padgett, J.M. (ed.), The Centaur's Smile, The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (Princeton, 2003): 203-205, NO.39 (COLOUR OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. From Greece. Unattributed. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Peleus and Thetis with Chiron; at right, an altar and a Nereid.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: imitation inscriptions: along Peleus' back: 7 letters. Between his
legs: 6 letters. Along Thetis' back: 5 letters, a break of 1 letter, 2 letters.
To left of Nereid's middle: 6 letters.
CAVI Comments: The photos. in CVA show the letters, but small; I saw the vase, but did not
copy the inscriptions as they are mostly strokes, with a few letters, once a
lambda.
CAVI Number: 3902
AVI Bibliography: J. Hoppin and A. Gallatin, CVA Hoppin & Gallatin, USA 1 (1926), pl. 19,1.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
