Decoration: Body: BIRTH OF HELEN FROM EGG ON ALTAR, WOMEN, SOME FLEEING
Last Recorded Collection: Reggio Calabria, Museo Nazionale
Publication Record: Comella, A and Mele, S. (eds.), Depositi votivi e culti dell'Italia antica dall'eta arcaica a quella tardo-republicana (Bari, 2005): 705, PL.1C (DRAWING) Giudice, E. and Giudice, G. (eds.), Studi miscellanei di ceramografia Greca III (Catania, 2017): 35, PL.2, FIG.4 (DRAWING) Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 6882
CAVI Collection: REGGIO CALABRIA, MUSEO NAZIONALE.
CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF RF PYXIS. FROM LOCRIS. UNATTRIBUTED. MID-FIFTH. "LITTLE LATER, IF AT
ALL, THAN 450" (BEAZLEY).
CAVI Subject: FR. 1: AN ALTAR WITH THE CHILD HELEN CRAWLING OUT OF AN EGG SHELL; AT RIGHT,
LEGS OF A DRAPED WOMAN (LEDA). FR. 2: AN OPEN HAND EXTENDED TO RIGHT; HEAD AND
SHOULDERS OF A WOMAN (PERHAPS PARTS OF FLEEING WOMEN, FROM THE LEFT-HAND PORTION
OF THE SCENE).
CAVI Inscriptions: FR. 2: BETWEEN THE HEAD AND THE WOMAN'S SHOULDERS: καλον.
CAVI Comments: 2 FRS. THE ONLY REPRESENTATION OF HELEN ACTUALLY EMERGING FROM THE EGG
(BEAZLEY). COULD καλον REFER TO THE EGG, OR IS THE LAST LETTER A SIDEWAYS SIGMA?
CAVI Number: 6882
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), III, 72 (MENTION).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
