Inscriptions: ATITAS Inscription: HE PAIS KALE Inscription: KALOS EIMI Signature: ATITASEPOIESEN
Decoration: A: WOMAN SPINNING SEATED ON STOOL, DRAPED YOUTH WITH HARE (COURTING ?), KALATHOS B: WOMAN AND DRAPED YOUTH EMBRACING
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Ceramicus: 2713
Publication Record: Alfaro Giner, C. et al. (eds.), Luxury and Dress. Political Power and Appearance in the Roman Empire and its Provinces (Valencia, 2013): 80, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Algrain, I., L'alabastre attique. Origine, forme et usages (Brussels, 2014): 91, FIG.42 (PARTS OF BD) Antike Kunst: 58 (2015) 73, FIGS.9A-B (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 331 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 172 Dierichs, A., Erotik in der Kunst Griechenlands (Mainz, 2008): 124, FIG.85 (COLOUR OF B) Knigge, U., Kerameikos, Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen 9, Der Südhügel (Berlin, 1976): 9, PL.19.1.23, 19.6-7, NO.23 (PARTS OF A, B) Paleothodoros, D. (ed.), The Contexts of Painted Pottery in the Ancient Mediterranean World, Seventh - Fourth Centuries BCE (Oxford, 2012): 25-26, FIGS.1, 3, 4-5 (PART OF A, B) Stampolidis, N.C. and Tassoulas, Y. (eds.), Eros, from Hesiod’s Theogony to Late Antiquity, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 10th December 2009-11th April 2010 (Athens, 2009): 203-204, NO.168 (COLOUR OF BD AND PART) Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 342, FIG.8 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: RF alabastron. From Athens, Ceramicus, tomb HW 196. Unattributed{1}. Last
quarter sixth. Ca. 500 (Knigge).
CAVI Subject: A: Woman seated and spinning; behind her, a kalathos; a youth with a dead
hare faces her. B: girl embracing a youth.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the seated woman's head: hε παις. To right of her face and to left
of the youth's: καλε. Behind the youth, not facing him: [κα]λως ειμι, retr.{2}.
On the mouth, in a circle, facing out, the last letters more crowded, with no
space left for the punctuation, i.e. not well planned: Ατιτας εποιεσεν:.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} placed by Beazley at the end of the Group of the Paidikos alabastra, "a
vase which has no connection with the Paidikos Group or any of the other vases
mentioned above." Karouzou: unattributed but related to Paidikos Group. {2} for
καλος ειμι: omega for omicron: see AttScr (1990), 167,1. Does this refer to the
couple on B?
CAVI Comments: Excavation of 1963. Karouzou, on p. 107ff., discusses the `Spinnende Hetären'
controversy. On p. 113: the name Ατιτας is not found elsewhere [cf. also LGPN
ii], but the adj. ατιτης is found twice in Aesch. (Ag. 72 and Eumen. 257),
meaning (according to E. Fraenkel, Agamemnon ii, 45f.) one who does not or
cannot pay. Hence a nickname, cf. the potter Paidikos. [But see other
interpretations in LSJ.] Attic alphabet with omega for omicron.
CAVI Number: 1755
AVI Bibliography: Knigge (1964), 105-107, p. 106 (facs. of Dipp. in field), fig. 1 (dr. of
mouth with inscription), pls. 58,1 and 59,1-3. — Para. (1971), 331. — Knigge
(1976), 91/20,23, pls. 19,1,23 and 6-7. — Bérard et al. (1984), 78, fig. 112
(incl. dr.) [[only dr., without inscrr.]]. — Add.[2] (1989), 172 (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
