Decoration: Body: WOMEN, ONE HOLDING HELMET, ONE WITH SPEAR AND SHIELD, OINOCHOE SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 12441
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1575 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 996.141 Moreno, P., La pittura Greca dalle origini ad Apelle, Archeo Dossier 34: 32 (COLOUR OF PART) Oakley, J., Picturing Death in Classical Athens, The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge, 2004): 49, FIG.22 (BD) Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): PL.103A-B (BD) Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Leukes Likythoi tou Zoographou tou Achilleos sto Ethniko Archaiologiko Mouseio (Athens, 1998): 109, FIG.28, PLS.11-12 (COLOUR, PROFILE) Walter-Karydi, E., Die Athener und ihre Gräber (1000-300 v.Chr.) (Berlin, 2015): 152, FIG.81 (PART OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. Achilles Painter. Second quarter fifth. 460-450. 460/55-450
(Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Departure Scene: woman to right holding out a helmet; behind her, at top,
oinochoe hung up; woman frontal, head to left, holding shield and spear.
CAVI Inscriptions: Between the figures (closer to the left woman), at top, horizontal stoich.
left-aligned three-liner: Δι(δ/φ)ιλος | καλος | Μ(ε)λανοπο{1}. ....... .....
........
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Oakley on p. 12 says that delta is written for phi; the ph. shows a delta
with two small circles at the bottom: is this an attempt at correction? The
epsilon in the father's name is miswritten (according to the ph.), but I think
it is not an eta. However, Oakley on p. 11 cites the vase for eta for epsilon. -
Earlier read Μηλανοπο, which I interpreted as Μhελανοπο [[Μh(ε)λ]]. The new
reading is here taken from Oakley.
CAVI Comments: The inscription is unusually careless for the Achilles Painter. Ionic with
omicron for omega. Alpha 9. Delta 3 once disjointed, once corrected(?). Epsilon
miswritten. The `eta' in Melanopou is for syllabic he with short e. Kappa 3, the
second diagonal coming off the first. Lambda 4. Mu 4 tall. Nu 3 medium-sized.
Omicron near 1 pointed at top. Pi 4 narrow. Sigma 4 (near 7 and flat). Phi
perhaps attempted. Cf. Athens, N.M. 12,440. Second white used. [See the chart in
AttScr for the numbers.]
CAVI Number: 0876
AVI Bibliography: FR (1904–32), iii, 295, figs. 138-39. — ARV[2] (1963), 996/141. — Oakley
(1997), 12, 140/192, pl. 103A-B (show inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
