Decoration: A: DOMESTIC, WOMEN, ONE WITH BOX, ONE WITH OINOCHOE, ONE SEATED ON CHAIR, YOUTH IN CHLAMYS, CROSS SUSPENDED, KALATHOS (PARIS AND HELEN ?) B: DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: CC1262
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: 1182
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1059.133 Ghali-Kahil, L., Les Enlevements et le retour d'Helene (Paris, 1955): PL.9.3 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.312, HELENE 108 (4)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Attica. Group of Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Paris and Helen?{1}. (Seated woman and youth with spears, petasos, and
chlamys; at left, a girl with a chest; at right, a girl with oinochoe and
phiale; kalathos). B: three youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the girl at left: (κ)α̣(λ)(ε){2}. Above the seated woman:
(υ)α̣(.)α̣(χ){3}. Above the girl at right: traces of an inscription{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} uncertain, Beazley. {2} or (κ)α̣(λ)(η). The kappa with a short parallel
stroke; alpha lacks the cross stroke; lambda, two short parallel strokes;
epsilon smeared, could also be eta. This looks like an imitation of καλη. {3} my
reading is of misshapen letters; the `alpha' is like that in the first
inscription. CC gives Υ(Γ)... and thinks probably Υγιεια, which is not right.
Nonsense? {4} `Paris' apparently not inscribed.
CAVI Comments: Inscriptions in applied pink. Unclear whether the alphabet is Attic or Ionic.
CAVI Number: 0748
AVI Bibliography: Collignon–Couve (1902–4), no. 1262, pl. 44. — ARV[2] (1963), 1059/133.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
