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)
