Decoration: Body: APOLLO (?) AND MUSES, SOME SEATED ON ROCKS, ERATO PLAYING KITHARA, POLYHYMNIA PLAYING PIPES, THALIA WITH LYRE, (ALL NAMED), DEER
Last Recorded Collection: Sozopol, Museum: 266
Publication Record: Lazarow, M., Ancient Pottery from Bulgaria (Sofia, 1990): 59-61, NO.17 Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 353-358, FIGS.1-10 (INCLUDING PROFILE AND DRAWING) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 11
CAVI Lemma: RF CHOUS (OINOCHOE){1}. FROM THE HARMANITE PENINSULA (AN OPFERRINNE){2}.
ERETRIA PAINTER (OAKLEY, LEZZI-HAFTER). CA. 425 (LEZZI-HAFTER).
CAVI Subject: EIGHT MUSES AND A MALE FIGURE (APOLLO?).
CAVI Inscriptions: A MUSE TO RIGHT CONFRONTING A FAWN; ABOVE HER HEAD, HORIZONTAL: [Ευ]τερπε. A
MUSE WEARING A PEPLOS. TWO MUSES SEATED, THAT ON THE LEFT WITH A LYRE, THAT ON
THE RIGHT REACHING OUT FOR A LOST OBJECT TENDED BY THALEIA(?); ABOVE HER HEAD:
Καλλιοπ[ε]. BELOW THE TWO, ON A LOWER LEVEL, A MUSE SEATED AND PLAYING THE
FLUTES; TO RIGHT OF HER FACE: Πολυμ{μ}νια{3}. ON AN INTERMEDIATE LEVEL, ANOTHER
MUSE SEATED AND HOLDING A LYRE WHILE RAISING ONE ARM TO HOLD OUT A LOST
OBJECT(?); ON HER LEFT: [Θα]^λεια, RETR.{4}. A STANDING MUSE; ABOVE HER HEAD,
NEARLY HORIZONTAL: [Ο]ρανια. A MALE FIGURE IN HIMATION, THE HEAD MISSING; ABOVE
HIM: Α[πολλον(?)], RETR.{5}. AT THE FAR RIGHT, A MUSE SEATED AND PLAYING THE
LYRE (PHORMINX); ABOVE HER HEAD, ROUGHLY HORIZONTAL: Ερατο.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} OF THE RARE GLOBULAR SHAPE, WITH TWISTED HANDLES, ENDING IN TWO SNAKE
TAILS. {2} ON THE BLACK SEA AT ANCIENT APOLLONIA PONTICA. USED IN A FUNERAL RITE
WITH THE BOTTOM SMASHED. {3} SO THE DR., BUT THE TEXT GIVES POLYHúMMNIA, "THE
WAY THE NAME WAS PRONOUNCED." THIS REMARK AND THE SPELLING MUST BE WRONG. {4} SO
THE DR.; THE RAISED ARM INTERVENED; THE TEXT HAS [TH]áLEIA, RETR. {5} THE EXTANT
LETTER MUST BE VERY HIGH UP, NEAR THE TOP MARGIN, AS THERE IS ONLY A SMALL BIT
OF ORIGINAL SURFACE PRESERVED IN THIS AREA (SEE FIGS. 8 AND 9); THE DR. IS NOT
ACCURATE. THE DEPICTION OF APOLLO WITHOUT ATTRIBUTE IS UNUSUAL (LEZZI-HAFTER).
CAVI Comments: SOZOPOL IS IN BULGARIA; THE VASE WAS MADE FOR THRACE (LEZZI-HAFTER). SHE
THINKS THE VASE WAS A SPECIAL ORDER FOR A FUNERAL IN THRACE (OF A GREEK OR
THRACIAN), WHICH EXPLAINS THE SNAKES (SEE NOTE 1 BELOW); KALLIOPE, WHO IS A
CENTRAL FIGURE, WAS THE MOTHER OF ORPHEUS. FOR THE TWO MUSES WHOSE NAMES ARE
LOST, KLIO, MELPOMENE AND TERPSICHORE ARE AVAILABLE. FROM THE SAME FIND SPOT
COMES A MUG WITH THRACIANS, ALSO ATTRIBUTED TO THE ERETRIA PAINTER, WHICH
LEZZI-HAFTER ALSO CONSIDERS A COMMISSIONED PIECE (SEE PP. 359FF., FIGS. 12-17).
- MIXED ALPHABET. THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE HORIZONTAL OR NEARLY SO.
CAVI Number: 7487A
AVI Bibliography: LAZAROV (1990), NO. 17. — LEZZI-HAFTER (1997), 353-359, FIGS. 1-11 (FIG. 10
IS A ROUGH DR. SHOWING THE INSCRIPTIONS) (BIBL.: P. 368,3).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
