201790, ATHENIAN, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig, New York (N.Y.), private, D. von Bothmer, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, 93.AE.54
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF skyphos. Kleophrades Painter (D. Williams){1}. First quarter
fifth. Later (Williams).
CAVI Subject: A: Thetis presenting the child Achilles to Chiron{2}. B: problematic: perhaps
Chryses before Agamemnon (Iliad 1). C] A: to right of Thetis' back of head:
Θετις. Peleus{3}. Chiron{4}. B: on a fr. not attributed by Beazley (fig. 3,e):
Μεγα[--]{5}. On the extreme right, fig. 3,l: [--]θ̣ε[--], probably [Α]θ̣ε[ναια]
(Williams). On an unplaced fr. (fig. 4, third fr. from left): [--]ν. Under the
glaze, on two frs., nonsense inscriptions: Leipzig 3840b: [--]ον(.)[--]. Getty:
86.AE.270.2: [--]νονε (the epsilon faces down){6}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "may be", Beazley. {2} Beazley in ARV[2] 193 had listed the subject of T
3840 as the Wedding of Peleus. {3} "parts of Peleus' name, written retrograde,'
Williams, p. 197. {4} "between [Chiron] and Peleus the end of [Chiron's] name,'
ibidem. {5} Beazley read Μεγα[κλες καλος] under his Megakles I (see below, 4184)
who belongs in the late sixth century, but Williams points out that the
chronology does not fit once the fr. is given to the later Kleophrades Painter,
and that the latter does not have any kalos-names. He suggests a signature; if
Leipzig T 3771 (q.v., CAVI 4182) belongs it might be the painter's signature. W.
suggests that the Kleophrades Painter's name was Megakles. [This seems to me
unlikely: there are many names beginning Μεγα[--] and the name may be a label
(in which case W.'s tentative interpretation of B would have to be revised.] {6}
see Williams, n. 44; for other inscriptions below the glaze, W. refers to AttScr
(1990), 174 n. 6. W. points out that this type of nonsense inscription is Brygan
and he speculates on p. 200 how these letters came to be in the preliminary
sketch.
CAVI Comments: + Leipzig T 3889a-c, T 38/40 [sic Williams n. 16), T 3885 (see below, 4184),
and unnumbered frs. in Leipzig. + Malibu 77.AE.21.11. Malibu ex Bareiss:
86.AE.224.1-3 (Bareiss 371); 86.AE.270.1-3 (372); 86.AE.271.1-2 (373). + Malibu,
frs. ex Center Island, N.Y. Malibu 93.AE.54.1 and 54.3. - The fr. Leipzig T 3771
is included as no. 4182a (above).
CAVI Number: 4183
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), *193, top (T 3840 and three unnumbered frs.), *1598/4 (T 3885,
unatt.). — D. Williams (1997), 196ff., figs. 2-4, perhaps 5.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
