30372, ATHENIAN, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1927.4455

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
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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