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213943, ATHENIAN, Unknown, Somzee Collection, Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, A8

  • Vase Number: 213943
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
  • Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
  • Provenance: GREECE, EUBOEA, ERETRIA
  • Date: -475 TO -425
  • Inscriptions: DIPHILOS
    Kalos/Kale: DIPHILOS KALOS HO MELANOP[
    Kalos/Kale: DIPHILOS KALOS MELANOPO
    MELANOPON
  • Attributed To: ACHILLES P by LUCE
  • Decoration: Body: DOMESTIC, WOMEN, ONE SEATED ON CHAIR, ONE WITH BOX, OINOCHOE AND MIRROR SUSPENDED, STOOL
  • Last Recorded Collection: Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire: A8
  • Previous Collections:
    • Unknown, Somzee Collection
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1574
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 995.121
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 312
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BRUSSELS, MUSEES ROYAUX DU CINQUANTENAIRE 1, III.J.B.3, PL.(044) 4.3A.3B View Whole CVA Plates
    Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): PL.93A, D-E (PARTS OF BD, S)
    Valavanis, P. and Manakidou, E., Egraphsen kai epoiesen. Essays on Greek Pottery and Iconography in Honour of Professor Michalis Tiverios (Thessaloniki, 2014): 323, 591, FIGS.3, 12 (PART OF BD, COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=3033
  • AVI Record Number: 2885
  • Notes: COLOUR IMAGES COPYRIGHT ROYAL MUSEUMS OF ART AND HISTORY, BRUSSELS (CC BY-SA.4)
  • CAVI Collection: BRUSSELS, MUSEES ROYAUX A 8.
  • CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. FROM ERETRIA. ACHILLES PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. 460-450. 460/55-450 (OAKLEY). EARLY (BEAZLEY).
  • CAVI Subject: MISTRESS AND MAID: SEATED WOMAN TO RIGHT (HER HANDS READY TO RECEIVE THE CHEST); WOMAN WITH CHEST; STOOL; ABOVE SEATED WOMAN'S HEAD AT TOP: OINOCHOE HUNG UP; BEHIND STANDING WOMAN'S HEAD, OINOCHOE HUNG UP AND A SASH.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: BELOW THE TOP, IN THE AREA BETWEEN THE WOMEN, HORIZONTAL STOICH. LEFT-ALIGNED THREE-LINER: Διφιλος | καλος | ΜHελανοπ|ο [[ΜH(ε)λ]]. ....... ..... . .......{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE FINAL OMICRON IS IN LINE 2 AND STOICH. IN RELATION WITH LINES 1 AND 3.
  • CAVI Comments: SECOND WHITE USED. NOTE THE POSITION OF THE FINAL OMICRON, AS IN ATHENS 1922, ATHENS 13,750 AND STOCKHOLM G. 2107. SEE UNLOCATED (EX COLLECTION TYSZKIEWICZ): THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE SAME VASE, WHICH APPEARED IN THE VENTE SOMZéE OF 1901. FOR THE SYLLABIC USE OF Hε [[H(ε)]] SEE ALSO ATHENS, N.M. 12,441. THREATTE (1996), 39, 45, AND 46, EXPLAINS THE USE OF ETA FOR E DIFFERENTLY. IONIC ALPHABET WITH OMICRON FOR OMEGA.- OAKLEY READS: ΜΗΛΑNΟΠ; CF. P. 11. BUT THE Ε IS SHORT; SEE LGPN II.
  • CAVI Number: 2885
  • AVI Bibliography: F. MAYENCE, CVA BRUSSELS 1, BELGIUM 1 (1926), III J B, PL. 4,3. — ARV[2] (1963), 995/121. — ADD.[2] (1989), 312. — OAKLEY (1997), 11, 136/170, PL. 93A,D,E (FRONT AND DETAILS) (BIBL.).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: HTTPS://PLEIADES.STOA.ORG/PLACES/579925
  • Coordinates: 38.393272,23.793125
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 38.399266,23.7918065
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Last updated 15/12/2025 05:18:00. Approved 23/04/2025 06:53:39 by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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