Decoration: Body: FUNERARY, WOMAN AND DRAPED MAN CARRYING BODY, COFFIN, MEN, ONE WITH AXE, AND YOUTHS, ONE WITH BASKET, ONE WITH HYDRIA, ALL DRAPED, WOMEN, ONE WITH ALABASTRON, ONE WITH FLAT BASKET, OR BOX WITH LEKYTHOI, OLD MAN SEATED ON BLOCK MOURNING, SHIELD, LAMPS AND VESSELS SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Brunswick (ME), Bowdoin College: 1984.23
Previous Collections:
Lausanne, private
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 125 (2021) 200, FIG.18 (COLOUR OF BD) American Journal of Archaeology: 95 (1991), 634, FIG.4 (A) Antike Kunst: 45 (2002) PL.3.1-2 (PARTS) Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 247 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 126 Distler, S.A., Bauern und Banausen, Darstellungen des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft in der griechischen Vasenmalerei (Wiesbaden, 2022): PL.15.2 (PART) Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.21.1-2 (A, B) Junker, K., Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths, An Introduction (Cambridge, 2012): 102, FIG.30 (PART OF BD) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 873, NO.1074 (PART) Kurtz, D. & Boardman, J., Greek Burial Customs (London, 1971): FIGS.37, 38, 39 Kurtz, D.C. and Boardman, J., Thanatos, Tod und Jenseits bei den Griechen (Mainz, 1985): 177-179, FIGS.52-54 Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.68 (BD) Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 44, FIG.15 (COLOUR OF PART) Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 166, 297-298, NO.112 (COLOUR OF A, B AND PARTS) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 217, FIGS.10.4A-C (PARTS) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 4 Pallas, Revue d'etudes antiques: 94 (2014) 54, FIG.1 (DRAWING OF BD) Seidel, Y., Kunstliches Licht im individuellen, familiaren und offentlichen Lebensbereich (Vienna, 2009): 85, FIG.41 (PART) Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst, Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 153, FIG.8.5 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: BF bail amphora. Sappho Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Funerary: a body lowered into his coffin.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense inscriptions imitating cries of lament. E.g.: οσλτισυτ. λαβμελιτυτα,
retr.{1}. οιεγοιολτ. Around the head of a woman standing to left: ολτιστιοσ.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} taken from the photo, pl. 327; uncertain reading. This is in much larger
letters and surrounds the head of the deceased.
CAVI Comments: Ex Lausanne, Private (Gilet collection). Attic alphabet. - Mommsen explains
the unusual subject: the dead body is transferred to a coffin; two oil lamps
show that this takes place at night so that the body can be taken to the grave
before sunrise, as prescribed by Solonian law. She calls the vase a
"Korbhenkelgefäss".
