Last Recorded Collection: Athens, 3rd Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities: 6437
Publication Record: Arrington, N.T., Ashes, Images and Memories, The Presence of the War Dead in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford, 2015): 82, FIG.2.8 Giudice E., Il tymbos, la stele e la barca di Caronte, L'Immaginario della morte sulle lekythoi funerarie a fondo bianco (Rome, 2015): 153, FIG.34 (COLOUR OF PARTS) Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Leukes Likythoi tou Zoographou tou Achilleos sto Ethniko Archaiologiko Mouseio (Athens, 1998): 50, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF PARTS OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. FROM ATHENS. ACHILLES PAINTER (TZACHOU-ALEXANDRI){1}. 450-445
(OAKLEY).
CAVI Subject: THREE WOMEN AT A GRAVE{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Μελητος καλος PATRONYMIC{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} OAKLEY SAYS THE THIRD FIGURE AND SOME OF THE ORNAMENT ARE LATER
ADDITIONS, PERHAPS BY THE SABOUROFF PAINTER. {2} OAKLEY SAYS HE COULD NOT READ
THE PATRONYMIC WHEN HE SAW THE VASE BRIEFLY. R. CROMEY, BY LETTER OF 1/10/99,
TELLS ME THAT OAKLEY TOLD HIM THAT THE PATRONYMIC IS MEGAKLES. IN A SECOND
LETTER CROMEY GIVES ME THE REF. AS RECEIVED BY HIM FROM JOHN OAKLEY: O.
ALEXANDRI, Διδυμο ταφικο μνημειο του ζωγραφου του Αχιλλεως, ΕΠΑΙNΟΣ ΙΩΑNNΟΥ Κ.
ΠΑΠΑΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ (ATHENS 1997) 303-56. I ASSUME THIS WOULD NOT BE THE SON OF
MEGAKLES V MENTIONED BY DAVIES, APF, 381-82, WHO IS CONSIDERABLY LATER.
CAVI Comments: OAKLEY 14 POINTS OUT THAT ON THIS VASE THERE IS A KALOS-INSCRIPTION AND A
TOMB STELE. MELETOS APPEARS AS A KALOS-NAME ON AN EARLY RF NECK AMPHORA BY THE
ACHILLES PAINTER, CAB. MéD. 363 (CAVI 6117), ARV[2] (1963), 988/11, OAKLEY
(1997), 116/14. WOULD IT BE THE SAME? THE INSCRIPTION IS PRINTED AS IONIC BY
OAKLEY.
CAVI Number: 1877A
AVI Bibliography: OAKLEY (1997), 11 N. 4, 14, 68, 143/217 (NOT ILL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
