208151, ATHENIAN, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Greenwich (CT), private, M. and W. Bareiss, Luzern, market, Ars Antiqua, Munich, market, Gerhard Hirsch, 86.AE.249
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Gela (CVA). Bowdoin Painter (Beazley). Second quarter
fifth. Later (Beazley). 470-460 (Bothmer). 470-460 (Neer).
CAVI Subject: A winged figure(1) with a caduceus pours from an oinochoe over a high mound
(called a mound-altar by Beazley and Bothmer; a tomb decorated with fillets or
an altar by Schauenburg). [[Addenda:]] Iris to right with caduceus pouring a
libation from an oinochoe onto an altar.
CAVI Inscriptions: C] To right of her shoulder, horizontal and curving downward over the altar,
nonsense: στοσποσι.(2){3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Beazley in ARV[2] says Nike. Schauenburg says that a decision between
Nike and Iris is impossible; he refers however to an inscribed RF oinochoe in
Salerno: CVA, Palermo 1 III I c, pl. 21,4. Schauenburg prefers Nike if the
libation is over a tomb for a warrior who fell in a victorious battle. Bothmer
in Bareiss cat. opts for Iris. {2} Schauenburg prints: ιροσποσι. The photo in
Ars Ant. seems to me to show: στοσποχι [sic: but noone else reads a chi]. The
letters are hardly close enough to her mouth to be an imitation utterance. {3}
so the text of CVA; it seems to agree with the ph. [[n. 3 from Addenda.]]
CAVI Comments: Ex Hirsch collection, no. 165. Ex Lucerne Market (Ars Ant.). Ex Bareiss
collection, no. 104. Neer has much bibl. on the Bowdoin Painter.
CAVI Number: 5036
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Schauenburg (1960a), 57/158, pl. 58. — ARV[2] (1963), 686/193. —
Para. (1971), 406. — Kurtz (1975), 106 nn. 9, 14, and 17. — J. Paul Getty Museum
(1983), 77/125 (not ill.). — A. Kossatz-Deissmann, LIMC v (1990), 746, Iris
I/31, pl. 486. — R.T. Neer, CVA Malibu 7, USA 32 (1997), no. 60, pls. 382 and
386,3-4 (382,1 shows inscription), fig. 29 (profile).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
