Decoration: A: MUSIC CONTEST, MAN PLAYING PIPES AND YOUTH SINGING ON PLATFORM, MAN WITH SCEPTRE, ALL DRAPED, COLUMN B: YOUTH WITH STRIGIL AND LYRE AND MAN WITH STAFF, BOTH DRAPED, DOG, BAG SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E354
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Kamiros{1}. Painter of Oxford 529{2}. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: a bearded flautist on a bema; a column; a youth singing. B: a youth with
his lyre and a man; a dog betweeen them.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: καλη. From the youth's mouth: 000{3}. Above his head: καλος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} from Tomb F 34, according to C. Smith, Cat. {2} Later Mannerists, I (vi);
see ARV[2] 1106. {3} see London E 171. {4} so Smith.
CAVI Comments: Done from Smith' text. A boys' competition in the aulodia: the flautist is
bearded, the `youth' is a boy; the column may indicate the Periclean Odeum
(Shapiro). Mixed alphabet{4}.
CAVI Number: 4575
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 236. — Schauenburg (1961), 69 (A). — ARV[2]
(1963), 1119/5. — Shapiro (1992), 60 and n. 53.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
