CAVI Lemma: RF hydria (kalpis). From Vulci. Kleophrades Painter. First quarter fifth.
Later (Beazley).
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: `Damenbesuch": a seated youth and a standing woman; a servant girl
with a kalathos on her head; a bearded man with a seated woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: starting above the kalathos (which is on the head of the servant
girl) and bearing slightly downward over the bearded man at right: καλος. Under
the foot, Gr.: Μνεσι[] and the `bident' mark with short diagonal strokes at the
top.
CAVI Comments: = Jahn 334. The same Grr. on Basel, Wilhelm (on loan to Antikenmuseum),
ARV[2] 189/73, cf. Add.[2] 188, another hydria by the Kleophrades Painter of the
same date. In JHS 30, Beazley gives parallels to the `bident' mark. The kalos
may refer to the kalathos.
CAVI Number: 5291
AVI Bibliography: Hackl (1909), 69. — Beazley (1910), 53/17, pl. 9,1. — Beazley (1933a), no.
54. — Beazley (1958), 6-7 and n. 3, 7, fig. 1 (Grr.), pl. 6, figs. 10-12. — R.
Lullies, CVA Munich 5, Germany 20 (1961), pls. 227,3, 228,3, and 234,3; p. 22,
facss. of Grr. and Dipp. (bibl.). — ARV[2] (1963), 189/72, 1632. — Para. (1971),
341. — Johnston (1979), 195/21B 6. — Add.[2] (1989), 188.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
