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).
