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)
