Inscriptions: Inscription: ...]ELIDES Inscription: ATH]ENA Inscription: EDE KANE PLEA Inscription: EKPHEPHOR[... Inscription: ETI TI PIEI (?) Inscription: KAGO T[... Inscription: META KAGO Named: ATHENA
Attributed To: RYCROFT P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Obverse: AGRICULTURE, VINTAGE, YOUTHS AND MEN, WITH BASKETS, GRAPEVINE, ATHENA (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.2560
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: AP165
Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 15124
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 337.32 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 92 Distler, S.A., Bauern und Banausen, Darstellungen des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft in der griechischen Vasenmalerei (Wiesbaden, 2022): PL.41.1 Ephemeris Archaiologike: 127 (1988) 127, FIG.11E Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 60 Haysom, M. and Wallensten, J. (eds.), Current Approaches to Religion in Ancient Greece (Stockholm, 2011): 160, FIG.2 Hefte des Archaeologischen Seminars der Universität Bern: 17 (2000) PLS.3-4 (INCLUDING DRAWING) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 342, FIG.220 (DRAWING) Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 4 (1935) FIG.4.7 (PARTS) Holmberg, E.J., On the Rycroft Painter and other Black-Figure Vase-Painters with a Feeling for Nature (Jonsered, 1992): 40, FIG.28 Karoglou, K., Attic Pinakes, Votive images in clay. British Archaeological Reports International Series 2104 (Oxford, 2010): 178, FIGS.92-93 (INCL. DRAWING) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 1 Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 75, FIG.27
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF plaque. From Athens. Rycroft Painter. Late sixth.
CAVI Subject: Vintage: two young men and three older men with tubs (skaphai) in a grape
arbor; Athena.
CAVI Inscriptions: Fr. a: below the top margin, in large letters: [---]ελ^ιδες{1}. By Athena's
outstretched hand carrying her helmet: [Αθ]ενα. Above the head of a youth
carrying an amphora(?): εδε καν(ε) πλ̣εα̣{2}. Above the skaphe carried on the
shoulder of a bearded man talking to a youth: μετα καγο{3}. Above the head of a
bearded man carrying a skaphe: καγο τ[ι πιομαι]{4}. Fr. c:(5) above the head of
a youth carrying a skaphe: εκφεφορ^[---]{6}. Fr. b: from the mouth of a man with
outstretched arms: ε̣τι τι π[ι]ει?{7}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} a vine interferes; this inscription has always been considered part of
the dedication (Beazley (1935a)). {2} Beazley, following Wolters. Bracketed
epsilon smeared; but Wolters thought alpha corrected from epsilon: κανα, on
which Kretschmer comments apud Graef–Langlotz. Kretschmer (1894) read εδε
κανεπιεν ("he too has already drunk, αναπινειν for πινειν), but Graef–Langlotz
says the lambda is certain. {3} probably sc. πιομαι, Beazley following
Kretschmer. {4} Beazley in preference to Kretschmer's: καγο τ[ρυγεσο]. {5} in
this order, Beazley. {6} A vine intervenes just before the break. εκφεφορ[εκα
...], Kretschmer "I have carried them out;" also possible are: εκφεφορ[εται] or
εκφεφορ[εται παντα], Beazley. {7} so Kretschmer (1894), but apud Graef–Langlotz
he takes this back and thinks the meaning should be: "ist noch was zu tun?"; I
did not see the final iota in the photo.; Beazley says: "if my note is correct,
may also be incomplete."
CAVI Comments: = N.M. 15,124. Frs. a - c + North Slope AP 165. I assume that the κανε
(wicker baskets) are not shown, and that they are being filled from the skaphai
(tubs); perhaps they are the baskets on the ληνοι, where the grapes are
squeezed.
