Decoration: Body: WOMEN, ONE SEATED ON CHAIR, ONE WITH FLAT BASKET WITH FILLETS, STOOL, OINOCHOE SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 12440
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1575 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 996.132 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ATHENS, MUSEE NATIONAL 1, III.J.BCD.4, PL.(034) 2.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Giudice E., Il tymbos, la stele e la barca di Caronte, L'Immaginario della morte sulle lekythoi funerarie a fondo bianco (Rome, 2015): 156, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF PARTS) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 177 Oakley, J., Picturing Death in Classical Athens, The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge, 2004): 48, FIG.20 (BD) Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): PL.99D (PART OF BD) Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Leukes Likythoi tou Zoographou tou Achilleos sto Ethniko Archaiologiko Mouseio (Athens, 1998): 101, FIG.24, PLS.1-4 (COLOUR, PROFILE)
CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. FROM ERETRIA. ACHILLES PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. EARLY
(BEAZLEY). 460-450. 460/55-450 (OAKLEY).
CAVI Subject: MISTRESS AND MAID: WOMAN TO RIGHT WITH OFFERING TRAY, FROM WHICH HANG
FILLETS; WOMAN SEATED ON A CHAIR TO LEFT, ONCE HOLDING A WREATH; ABOVE HER, AT
TOP, OINOCHOE HUNG UP. — C] TO RIGHT OF THE LEFT WOMAN'S HEAD, AT THE TOP (ABOVE
THE TRAY), HORIZONTAL STOICH. LEFT-ALIGNED THREE-LINER: Διφιλος καλος ΜHελανοπο
[[ΜH(ε)λ]]{2}. C] BETWEEN THEM, IN THE UPPER PART, STOICH. TABELLA,
LEFT-ALIGNED: Διφιλος | καλος | ΜHελανοπο [[ΜH(ε)λ]]{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} OAKLEY WRONGLY HAS THE NUMBER 12,240 (THE CORRECT NO. IS VIS. ON PL. 99).
{2} OAKLEY READS ETA FOR EPSILON (SEE P. 11). {3} ΜΗΛΑNΟΠΟ.
CAVI Comments: SECOND WHITE USED. THE NAME IS Μελανωπος; NOTE SYLLABIC HETA. MIXED ALPHABET
(IONIC WITH ONE THREE-STROKE SIGMA).
CAVI Number: 0875
AVI Bibliography: K. RHOMAIOS, CVA ATHENS 1, GREECE 1 (1930), III J C, PL. 2,1-2. — ARV[2]
(1963), 996/132. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 885. — OAKLEY (1997), 11, 138/182, PL. 99D
(SHOWS INSCRIPTION){1}.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
