Decoration: A: ORESTES, CUTTING LOCK OF HAIR, AND ELECTRA, AT TOMB OF AGAMEMNON (NAMED), YOUTHS SEATED, WITH CHLAMYDES AND SPEARS, WOMEN B: DRAPED YOUTHS
Last Recorded Collection: Exeter, University
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1516.80 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.361 (A) Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: 56.1 (2013) FRONTCOVER, 68-70, FIGS. 1-3 (COLOUR OF PARTS OF A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 384 Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery (London, 1966): PL.50 (A) Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery 3rd ed. (London, 1997): PL.50 (A) Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 133, FIG.93 (A)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF pelike. Jena Painter (see ARV[2] 1510 and 1516). Ca. 400. 380
(R.M. Cook).
CAVI Subject: A: Orestes and Electra at the tomb of Agamemnon: at upper left, a reclining
youth; below, to left of the tomb: head of a seated girl, and Orestes who is
cutting off a lock of his hair; on the steps of the tomb at right: Pylades
seated, with spears; at right, two women to left; the larger one, nearer the
tomb, holds a water jar. B: three youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: On the middle step of the tomb's three-stepped base, in BG: [Αγα]μεμνονος.
The names of Orestes and Electra seem also inscribed: above the girl with the
water jar, horizontal: Elektra. No other inscription shows and Shapiro does not
mention any other. But Robertson mentions the inscription, by mistake, of "a
second girl": Ismene (not Chrysothemis as expected).
