Decoration: Body: MUSES, ONE PLAYING LYRE, SEATED ON ROCK (NAMED, HELIKON), BIRD
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: S80
Previous Collections:
Lugano, Baron von Schoen: 80
Munich, Antikensammlungen: SS80
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1568 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 997.155 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 438 Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland: IV (2009) 55, FIG.3 (PART) Boardman, J. (ed.), The Oxford History of Classical Art (Oxford, 1993): 109, FIG.98C (PART) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.262 Boardman, J., Greek Art, 4th edition (London, 1996): 203, FIG.200 (COLOUR OF PART) Brinkmann, V. and Wünsche, R. (eds.), Bunte Götter, Die Farbigkeit Antiker Skulptur (Munich, 2004): 157, FIG.259 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 27, FIG.14 (BD) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 152 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 312 Carratelli, G.P. (ed.), I Greci in Occidente (1996): 96 (COLOUR OF PART) Carratelli, G.P. (ed.), The Greek World, Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily (New York and Milan, 1996): 96 (COLOUR OF PART) Classical Antiquity: 21 (2002) FIG.10A AT 379 (PART OF BD) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNICH, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN 15, 61, 62, 63, 64, FIGS.22, 23, BEILAGE 11.2, PLS.(4613,4614,4615) 33.1-3, 34.1-4, 35.2 View Whole CVA Plates Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 301, FIG.244 (BD) Giudice E., Il tymbos, la stele e la barca di Caronte, L'Immaginario della morte sulle lekythoi funerarie a fondo bianco (Rome, 2015): 168, FIG.16 (COLOUR OF PARTS OF BD) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 115 (2000) 273, FIG.11 (PART) Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien: 13/14 (2011/2012) 231, FIG.11 (COLOUR OF BD) Knauss, F.S. (ed.), Die unsterblichen Götter Griechenlands, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München (Munich, 2012): 147, FIG.10.18 (COLOUR OF PART) Knauss, F.S., Die Kunst der Antike, Meisterwerke der Münchner Antikensammlungen (Munich, 2017): 214 (COLOUR OF BD) Koch-Brinkmann, U., Polychrome Bilder auf weissgrundigen Lekythen, Zeugen der klassischen griechischen Malerei (Munich, 1999): FIGS.24-29 (COLOUR OF PARTS) Kurtz, D.C. (ed.), Greek Vases, Lectures by J.D. Beazley (Oxford, 1989): PL.19.2 (PART) Lane Fox, R., The Classical World (New York, 2006): 179, FIG.21 (PART OF BD) Leoussi, L., 2000 B.C.E. to 2000 C.E. The History of Greek Music (River Vale, NJ, 2013): 8 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.383, MOUSA, MOUSAI 6 (PART) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 158, FIG.7 (PART) Oakley, J., Picturing Death in Classical Athens, The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge, 2004): 96-97, FIGS.61-62 (BD) Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): COLOUR PL.2 Opuscula Romana, Edidit Institutum Romanum Regni Sueciae: 19 (1993) 59, FIG.4 (PART) Padgett, J.M. (ed.), The Berlin Painter and His World, Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C., Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series (New Haven and London, 2017): 79, FIGS.22-23 (COLOUR OF BD) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 201, FIG.210 (PARTS) Schmidt, S., Rhetorische Bilder auf attischen Vasen, Visuelle Kommunikation im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Berlin, 2005): 54-55, FIGS.20-21 (BD) Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D., A History of Greek Art (Oxford, 2015): 259, FIG.10.23 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 229, FIG.215 (COLOUR OF PART) Walter-Karydi, E., Die Athener und ihre Gräber (1000-300 v.Chr.) (Berlin, 2015): 159, FIG.87 (BD) Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 230, FIG.24.10 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Yoshikawa, I., Special Exhibition of Ancient Greek Vases from Japanese Collections (Nara, 1988): 11 (PART) Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik: 68 (1987), PL.2A (PART)
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Greece. Achilles Painter. Ca. 450. 445-435 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Two Muses: woman standing to right; bird to left, on a rock; woman seated to
left on a rock, playing the lyre; between them a small bird facing the left
figure{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Between them, high, three-line tabella, stoich. and words centered as much as
possible: Αξιοπειθης .......... καλος ..... Αλκιμαχο. ........ On the rock,
i.e., below the seated muse, horizontally: hελικον [[h(ε), with a slightly
larger space after the heta]].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} probably a nightingale; see Oakley 65 n. 35, although other
identifications have been suggested.
CAVI Comments: Ex Lugano, von Schön 80. Kurtz (1975), 46-48 and Wehgartner (1983), 190 n. 26
are inclined to believe that the vase is not by the Achilles Painter, but Oakley
65 n. 32 shows that the lekythos was made in the Achilles Painter workshop, and
he maintains the attribution. Mixed alphabet (the tabella Ionic, Helikon mixed).
CAVI Number: 5140
AVI Bibliography: Buschor (1941), frontispiece, 37-39 and 71. — ARV[2] (1963), 997/155. — Para.
(1971), 438. — Add.[2] (1989), 312. — Beazley (1989), pl. 19,2, see p. 33. —
Boardman (1989), fig. 262 [[sm. but quite cl.]]. — AttScr (1990), no. 980. —
LIMC vi (1992), pl. 383, Mousa, Mousai 6. — Robertson (1992), 199 and fig. 210.
— Oakley (1997), 11 n. 8, 14, 65 and nn. 32-36, 142/209, color pl. 2A-B (show
inscription distorted) (bibl.) [[cl.]].
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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