Inscriptions: KLEOPHONIS Kalos/Kale: KALE [K]LEOPHON[IS] Named: EUPHEMIA, KLEODOXA, PHANODIKE, KLEODIKE
Attributed To:Group of PELEUS P by BEAZLEY Near HECTOR P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: WOMEN (SOME NAMED), SOME WITH LYRES, SOME SEATED ON CHAIRS, ONE PLAYING PIPES, ONE WITH BOX, COLUMN, BOX, EROS WITH WREATH, HIMEROS (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum: 219
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1037.2 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BRAUNSCHWEIG, HERZOG ANTON ULRICH-MUSEUM, 30,31,32, FIGS.10-11, PLS.(169,170,173) 23.1-6, 24.1-3, 27.1-2.4-5 View Whole CVA Plates Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.300, HIMEROS 12 (PART) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 114, FIG.65 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: RF HYDRIA (KALPIS). FROM NOLA. NEAR HECTOR PAINTER. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: CONCERT OF WOMEN WITH EROTES.
CAVI Inscriptions: INSCRIPTIONS MOSTLY ABOVE HEADS: Ευφημια. Κλεοδοξα. [Ι]μερος. NON-STOICH.
TWO-LINER: κ(α)λε | Κλεοφωνι̣ς̣{1}. Κλεοδικ[η]. Φανοδικη. TO LEFT OF THE FLYING
EROS' GROIN: καλος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE PHOTO IN CVA SHOWS NO TRACE OF KAPPA, WHICH IS HOWEVER GIVEN IN CVA'S
TEXT AND IN ARV[2]. SHAPIRO GIVES KLEOPHONIA; HIMEROS AND KLEODIKE ARE ALSO
GIVEN COMPLETE.
CAVI Comments: WEBSTER (1972), 71 SUGGESTS THAT ALL THE NAMES ARE THOSE OF ACTUAL
PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS IN ATHENS; BUT SHAPIRO (1993), 115 N. 250, SUGGESTS THAT
EUPHEMIA SHOULD PERHAPS BE A PERSONIFICATION. LIMC IV, 67, S.V. EUPHEMIA,
DISCUSSES AN APULIAN VASE WITH EUPHEMIA. EUPHEME WAS A NURSE OF THE MUSES (PAUS.
9.25,5). - KLEOPHONIS IS GIVEN AS A KALOS-NAME IN ARV[2] 1615; THE NAME OCCURS
WITHOUT KALE ON A RF BELL KRATER, GROUP OF POLYGNOTOS, IN AGRIGENTO, ARV[2]
1055/64. HOWEVER I THINK IT IS HERE A PUNNING NAME; ALL THE NAMES SEEM BROUGHT
IN FOR THE OCCASION (CF. ATTSCR). KLEODOXA OCCURS AS THE NAME OF A FLUTE PLAYER
ON A HYDRIA IN FLORENCE (SEE CVA: AZ 8 [1850], PL. 21, ETC.) AND A STAMNOS BY
POLYGNOTOS, LONDON E 454, ARV[2] 1028/14. SOME OF THE NAMES ARE THUS REAL, BUT
NEVERTHELESS USED AS PUNNING NAMES HERE. KALOS REFERS TO THE EROS. - THE
INSCRIPTIONS INCOMPLETE AND NOT ACCURATE IN M. MIXED ALPHABET (MAINLY IONIC).
CAVI Number: 2855
AVI Bibliography: A. GREIFENHAGEN, CVA BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY 4 (1940), PLS. 23, 24,1-3,
27,1-2,4-5, P. 31. — ARV[2] (1963), 1037/2, 1615. — HALM-TISSERANT (1984),
154/9. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 763. — LIMC V (1990), PL. 300, HIMEROS 12. — SHAPIRO
(1993), 243/54, 114, FIG. 65. — MATHESON (1995), 380/COGM1 (NOT ILL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
