Attributed To: EPIMEDES P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: DRAPED YOUTH WITH KITHARA (NAMED) ON PLATFORM WITH KITHARA, NIKAI, SOME WITH WREATHS, ONE WITH SPRIG AND PHIALE (NAMED) B: WOMEN, DRAPED YOUTH WITH LYRE
Last Recorded Collection: Plovdiv, Regional Museum of Archaeology: 1812
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1044.9 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1562 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.149 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 320 Lazarow, M., Ancient Pottery from Bulgaria (Sofia, 1990): 76-78, NO.27 (COLOUR OF A,B,UH) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 153, FIG.7.25 (A) Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.8.8 (A) Tsiphaki, D. et al., AtticPOT, Attic painted pottery in ancient Thrace (6th – 4th century BC). New approaches and digital tools (Xanthi, 2022): 114, FIG.3 (A)
CAVI Collection: PLOVDIV, DEPARTMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM INV. 1812.
CAVI Lemma: RF PELIKE. FROM BREZOVO. EPIMEDES PAINTER (POLYGNOTAN). THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A: A YOUNG CITHARODE ON A THREE-STEPPED BEMA; ON EACH SIDE, TWO NIKAI FLY
TOWARD HIM, THE UPPER TWO HOLDING TAENIAE(?), THE LOWER ONE AT LEFT, A WREATH,
AND THE LOWER ONE AT RIGHT, A PHIALE AND A FLOWER. B: A YOUTH WITH A LYRE
BETWEEN TWO WOMEN.
CAVI Inscriptions: THE CITHARODE: Αλκιμαχος. ON THE MIDDLE STEP: καλος{1}. HORIZONTAL ABOVE THE
NIKAI: UPPER LEFT: Μαραθονι. UPPER RIGHT: Παν(α)θενα[ι]οι[ς] Nικη. LOWER NIKAI:
Nικη Nεμεαι AND Ισθμοι{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} BEAZLEY TAKES THE KALOS WITH ALKIMACHOS (CF. P. 1562, ALKIMACHOS II):
TAG- OR PORTRAIT KALOS. SO ALSO WEBSTER. (DIFFERENTLY MATHESON.) THE SPACING OF
καλος IS PECULIAR: |.KA..L.OS|, WITH A LARGE GAP BETWEEN ALPHA AND LAMBDA, BUT
BEAZLEY SAYS A LETTER, APPARENTLY KAPPA, HAS BEEN ERASED IN THAT GAP. THE LAST
TWO LETTERS ARE CLOSE TOGETHER. {2} OR Ισθμοι(?). I DO NOT KNOW HOW THE
INSCRIPTIONS ARE TO BE ASSIGNED TO THE TWO LOWER NIKAI.
CAVI Comments: EX SOPHIA. THE VASE CELEBRATES A PERIODONIKES. EACH OF THE FOUR NIKAI IS
LABELED AS A VICTORY AT A SEPARATE FESTIVAL. WEBSTER 49 IDENTIFIES THIS
ALKIMACHOS WITH THE KALOS AND WITH A YOUTH ON A VASE BY THE LYKAON PAINTER
(ARV[2] 1045/8). MATHESON: ALKIMACHOS IS THE NAME OF THE CITHARODE; HE IS NAMED
ON FOUR OTHER POLYGNOTAN VASES; TWO ARE: WARSAW 142,355 (AS KALOS, TOGETHER WITH
AXIOPEITHES) AND LONDON E 495 (A YOUTH IN A SYMPOSIUM), BOTH BY THE LYKAON
PAINTER. AXIOPEITHES IS PROBABLY ALKIMACHOS' COUSIN: SEE ARV[2] 1568 AND H.A.
SHAPIRO (1987), 107-18, ESP. 113. [THIS IS ALKIMACHOS II.] FOR THE GAMES TO
HERACLES AT MARATHON, SEE VANDERPOOL (1969), 1-5. MIXED ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 6827
AVI Bibliography: PHOTOS. — ROBINSON–FLUCK (1937), 78F. — ARV[2] (1963), 1044/9. — WEBSTER
(1972), 49. — ADD.[2] (1989), 320. — BOARDMAN (1989), FIG. 149. — REHO (1989),
FASC. 2, 13 AND N. 3., FIG. 1 (A). — MATHESON (1995), 280 AND N. *55, 400/EP 9
(NOT ILL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
