Decoration: Obverse: FIGURES, DRAPED YOUTH WITH KITHARA (APOLLO ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.2556
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 352 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 76 Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 1 (Berlin, 1925): PL.106 Karoglou, K., Attic Pinakes, Votive images in clay. British Archaeological Reports International Series 2104 (Oxford, 2010): 198, FIG.141 Monuments et memoires publies par l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: 20 (1912) 117 Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 139, FIG.62
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of BF plaque. From Athens. Unattributed{1}. Last quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Head of cithara player (Apollo?); raised hand; object.
CAVI Inscriptions: Above the head, Dip.: Σχυθες μαν̣[εθεκεν],(2) for Σκυθες.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} referring to Acr. 2557 and 2586, Beazley says: "It is not clear from the
style [of the painting] that the Skythes of these plaques is the Skythes known
as a painter of red-figure and bilingual vases (chiefly cups)." {2} so
Graef–Langlotz and ABV, but the `chi' may be a badly written kappa.
CAVI Comments: The difference in style (see below) is explained by Graef–Langlotz by saying
that the pinax is 10-20 years earlier than Skythes' main period. - Note that the
style of the inscription is sloppy: does it resemble Skythes'? - Dotted theta.
CAVI Number: 1187
AVI Bibliography: Kretschmer (1894), 234/133. — Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, no. 2556, pl. 106.
— ABV (1956), 352.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
