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)
