6418, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1842,0728.802

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Vase Number: 6418
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
Date: -550 to -500
Attributed To: ATHENA P by HASPELS
Decoration: Body: SIREN ON ALTAR (?) PLAYING LYRE BETWEEN DRAPED MEN, DOGS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B651
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1842,0728.802 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: British Museum Yearbook: 4 (1980), 70, FIG.36
Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 256.48, PL.45.5 (PART)
Hornbostel, W. et al., Aus Gräbern und Heiligtümern, Die Antikensammlung Walter Kropatscheck (Mainz, 1980): 109, LEFT (PART)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4555
AVI Record Number: 4383
LIMC ID: 14430
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74701cfb3cfe2-f
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1842-0728-802
CAVI Collection: London B 651.
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. From Melos. Athena Painter. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Siren playing the lyre, between two onlookers.
CAVI Inscriptions: In the center, between siren and man, down: two imitation letters preserved: σ(π)[--](?). The second letter blurred.
CAVI Comments: The firzt letter perhaps a reversed nu.
CAVI Number: 4383
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 150 n. 4, 151, 158 n. 2, 256/48, pl. 45,5 (much bibl., because of the siren).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

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