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)
