7974, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, MNB910

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Vase Number: 7974
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
Date: -525 TO -475
Attributed To: SAPPHO P by HASPELS
Decoration: Body: APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA, MUSES SOME WITH KROTALA, ONE WITH LYRE, DEER, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: MNB910
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 28 (1985), PL.38.3
Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 226.7, PL.32.2A-B
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.241, APOLLON 701A
Lissarrague, F. et al. (eds.), Ceramique et peinture Grecques, Modes d'emploi, Actes du colloque internat., Ecole du Louvre, April 1995 (Paris, 1999): 185, FIG.1D (PROFILE)
Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 285, FIG.1
PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2
AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=6941
AVI Record Number: 6700
LIMC ID: 18653
LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-74ABC97A3E1E8-9
CAVI Collection: PARIS, LOUVRE MNB 910.
CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. SAPPHO PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: APOLLO CITHAROEDUS, WITH A DOE; FOUR WOMEN (MUSES) DANCING, TWO WITH CROTALA, ONE WITH A LYRE, THE LAST PLAYING THE FLUTES.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE, WITH IMITATION LETTERS: THERE IS A VERTICAL INSCRIPTION TO THE LEFT OF EACH DANCER: 1. πυ(.)υονο̣^υο(.){1}. 2. SIX LETTERS (3 + 3): υ(ο)(.)ου{2}. 3. SEVEN LETTERS (1 + 1 + 5, THE FLUTES INTERVENE). I HAVE NO RECORD OF THE FOURTH INSCRIPTION.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} AN ARM INTERVENES. BUT I COUNTED 11 LETTERS IN THE PHOTO IN QUEYREL. {2} THIS READING IS FROM ANOTHER PHOTO, ON WHICH I SAW ONLY 5 LETTERS; QUEYREL'S PHOTO SHOWS SIX.
CAVI Comments: PARTLY DISJOINTED LETTERS. THE WOMEN ARE CONSIDERED MUSES BY QUEYREL AND IN LIMC.
CAVI Number: 6700
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — HASPELS (1936), 98, 226[[/7]], PL. 32,2A-B (NO. 7). — WEGNER (1949), 213. — ZANKER (1965), 547 AND N. 260. — LIMC II (1984), PL. 241, APOLLON 701A. — QUEYREL (1985), 159, PL. 38,3. — LIMC VI (1992), 663, MOUSAI 40. — KAUFMAN-SAMARA (1997), 285, FIG. 1 (3 VIEWS, GOOD FOR INSCRIPTIONS).
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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