30372, ATHENIAN, Unknown, private, Thomas Burgon, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1927.4455

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Vase Number: 30372
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
Date: -500 TO -450
Attributed To: EMPORION P by HASPELS
Decoration: Body: THEBAN SPHINX ON COLUMN, BETWEEN DRAPED YOUTHS LEANING ON STAFFS, COLUMNS
Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 1927.4455
Previous Collections:
- Unknown, private, Thomas Burgon
Publication Record: Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 264.29
Moret, J.-M., Oedipe, la Sphinx et les Thebains (Rome, 1984): PL.36.1-2
AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=6195
AVI Record Number: 5962
CAVI Collection: OXFORD 1927.4455.
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG LEKYTHOS. EMPORION PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: THE SPHINX TO RIGHT ON A COLUMN; ON EITHER SIDE A YOUTH.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: PARTLY IMITATION LETTERS: TO RIGHT OF THE LEFT YOUTH: (α)υ^(.)ισ{1}. TO RIGHT OF THE SPHINX, FACING HER: κ(α)λ(.)(.){2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE TAIL OF THE SPHINX INTERVENES. {2} NO DOUBT καλος INTENDED.
CAVI Comments: THE READINGS FROM A MUSEUM PHOTO. PERHAPS BOTH INSCRIPTIONS ARE INTENDED FOR KALOS, REFERRING TO THE TWO YOUTHS. THE ALPHAS ARE MISWRITTEN.
CAVI Number: 5962
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — HASPELS (1936), 264/29. — LETTER OF 10 APRIL 1969 FROM A.C. BROWN.
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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