Decoration: Lid: APOLLO AND ARTEMIS, AGAMEMNON SEATED ON ROCK WITH SCEPTRE (ALL NAMED), YOUTH IN CHLAMYS WITH SPEARS
Last Recorded Collection: Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 4529
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1326.77, 1315 Burn, L., The Meidias Painter (Oxford, 1987): PL.38D Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 364 D'Amicis, A. et al., Catalogo del Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto I.3, Atleti e Guerrieri, Tradizioni aristocratiche (Taranto, ca. 1994): 367, NO.137.1
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF lekanis. Manner of Meidias Painter{1}; Meidias Painter (Burn). Last
quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: On the left: the right-hand figures of a group: Apollo and Artemis. At right,
the left-hand figures of another group: Agamemnon sitting pensively on a rock; a
youth in his chlamys and with two spears stands before him.
CAVI Inscriptions: Above, and to right of, Apollo's head, near the top margin: Απολλων. To right
of Artemis' thighs: Αρτεμις. At the bottom of the scene, to left of Agamemnon's
right foot and below his scepter: Αγαμεμνων.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} may be by the painter himself (Beazley).
CAVI Comments: The inscriptions are in unusual positions. For a pensive Agamemnon Beazley
compares the fr. of a pot at Paestum by the Meidias Painter, ARV[2] 1314/19.
Burn thinks Agamemnon is not pensive as Beazley said but in turmoil. She
suggests the scene is connected with the sacrifice of Iphigeneia, comparing
Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis. Apollo and Artemis may be watching Iphigeneia's
approach. To left of Agamemon's rock there is a flower not mentioned by Burn.
CAVI Number: 7608
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 1326/77. — Juliis–Loiacono (1985), 245/282 (ill., good for
inscriptions). — Burn (1987), 60-62, 99/M 23, pl. 38,d (shows inscriptions
well). — Add.[2] (1989), 364.
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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