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207428, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, P6541

  • Vase Number: 207428
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
  • Provenance: GREECE, BOEOTIA, THEBES
  • Date: -475 to -425
  • Inscriptions: HIPPON
    Kalos/Kale: HIP[P]ONKALOS
  • Attributed To: PROVIDENCE P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body: WEDDED PAIR, DRAPED YOUTH WITH SCEPTRE, WOMAN (MENELAOS AND HELEN ?)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 95.44
  • Previous Collections:
    • Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: P6541
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1586
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 640.76, 1663
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 135.46
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 274
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.302, HELENE 63
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2790
  • AVI Record Number: 2643
  • LIMC ID: 29584
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7546f9e21862b-3
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 95.44.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. From Thebes{1}. Providence Painter. Second quarter fifth. 470-460.
  • CAVI Subject: Wedding of Menelaus and Helen: Menelaus leading Helen.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: To left of his body, down(2): hιπ[π]ον καλος. Under the foot: (A), a modern Gr.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Boston 95.43. {2} position as on Boston 95.43.
  • CAVI Comments: Attic alphabet. Heta with the horizontal low and reduced to nearly a dot.
  • CAVI Number: 2643
  • AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), ii, 43/90, pl. 46. — ARV[2] (1963), 640/76, 1663. — Add.[2] (1989), 274.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/541138
  • Coordinates: 38.322758,23.319617
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 38.319156,23.317577
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Last updated 26/07/2024 18:25:00 by Parker, Greg. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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