Decoration: A: WOMAN (KLYTAIMESTRA, NAMED), OLD MAN WITH SCEPTRE (TYNDAREUS, NAMED) AND LEDA (NAMED) AT ALTAR WITH EGG AND EAGLE B: WOMEN, SOME NAMED I: MAN IN PETASOS, CHLAMYS AND BOOTS WITH SPEARS SEATED ON STOOL (PERITHOOS, NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1899.539
CAVI Subject: Int.: Perithoos seated, in traveling costume (in Hades, Beazley). Ext.: Leda
and the egg: A: woman (Klytaemnestra); white-haired man, wreathed and with a
scepter, at the altar (Tyndareus); altar, on which is the egg and an eagle
facing it; woman, excited, looking back. B: three women, that in the center
standing with a foot on a rock and with one elbow resting on her knee,
gesticulating.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: to his right, at chest-height: Περιθος{1}. A: above the head of the
woman at left: Κλυταιμεστρα. To right of Tyndareus, at head height, above the
altar: Τευδαρεως{2}. Λεδα. B: Κλεο[πα]τρα. To right of the central woman's back
of head: Φυλονοε{3}. Ξενοτιμος | εποιεσεν, stoich. (The sig. is in white, CB.)
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Beazley in CB says that the epsilon is more likely short than long, cf.
the Attic deme Περιθοιδαι. Threatte (1980), p. 240 also reads Περιθους; cf. ii
33. {2} Threatte (1996), 40 has the reading Τεν̣δαρεως. {3} Apollodorus 3.10,6
mentions her as a daughter of Leda. She converses with Kleopatra on her left;
the woman at right looks to right, i.e. at the egg on A; she is not named.
Beazley is puzzled by Kleopatra appearing among the daughters of Tyndareus; see
CB, p. 71 n. 4; on Berlin 2291 she is Timandra (so Beazley here).
CAVI Comments: The egg was laid by Nemesis and given to Leda to hatch; see Robertson. Mixed
alphabet. Alpha mainly with horizontal cross stroke. Theta lacks the dot. Ionic
lambda and sigma.
CAVI Number: 2683
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), iii, 69/163, pl. 99 (phs. of all; early bibl.). — ARV[2]
(1963), 1142/1. — Para. (1971), 455. — Add.[2] (1989), 334. — Boardman (1989),
fig. 214, above (good picture of Int.). — AttScr (1990), no. 1118. — Robertson
(1992), 227. — Threatte (1996), 40, 724, and 742.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
