Attributed To:Compare BERLIN P by UNKNOWN Compare EUCHARIDES P by UNKNOWN
Decoration: Body: UNDECORATED Shoulder: DEATH OF AIGISTHOS, AIGISTHOS, ORESTES, KLYTAIMESTRA WITH DOUBLE AXE, TELAMEDES (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Previous Collections:
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1977.713
Publication Record: Godart, L. and De Caro, S. (eds.), Nostoi, Capolavori Ritrovati, Roma, Palazzo del Quirinale, Galleria di Alessandro VII, 21 dicembre 2007 - 2 marzo 2008 (Rome, 2007): 88-89 (COLOUR OF PART) Knoepfler, D., Les Imagiers de l'Orestie, Mille ans d'art antique autour d'un mythe grec (Zurich, 1993): 43, FIG.26 (S) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 51 (14-15.3.1975), PL.35, NO.150 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, 372, AIGISTHOS 6A (DRAWING OF S) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.588, TELAMEDES 1 (PART) Museum Year, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: 1977-78, 22 Prag, A., The Oresteia (Warminster, 1985): PL.0, FIG.A (S)
CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. Unattributed{1}. First quarter fifth. Ca. 500 (Cahn).
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: Death of Aegisthus: Clytaemnestra with an axe rushes toward him;
young Telamedes holds her back; Orestes plunges his sword into the neck of
Aegisthus who is sitting on a throne (part of this is missing). Body: plain BG.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: behind C.'s back: Κλλδι-μεστ̣ρας, retr.{2}. Τελαμεδες, retr. To
right of O.'s head: [Ο]ρεστες.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Cf. Berlin Painter and Eucharides Painter (Cahn). {2} so Cahn's text,
noting that the name is miswritten. I think, probably: Κλυ[τ]αι{-}μεστρας,
unless the missing tau is Cahn's error.
CAVI Comments: Telamedes for Pylades? Or contamination of Talthybius and Pylades (Cahn).
Aegistus' name is probably lost in the break. - Cahn compares the lekythos
Oxford 1932.733 (Haspels (1936), pl. 22,1), which he thinks is by the same hand.
CAVI Number: 2825
AVI Bibliography: BADB 818. — M&M-Auction (1975), pl. 35/150. — NNN (1977–8), MFABMusY: 22. —
LIMC i (1981), 372, Aigisthos 6A (dr. of shoulder). — Prag (1985), pl. O, fig. A
(shoulder).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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