Decoration: Body: WOMEN, ONE WITH ALABASTRON AND PLEMOCHOE, ONE WITH FLAT BASKET WITH FILLETS, HERON
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 1963
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: CC1628
Publication Record: Annali del Seminario di Studi del Mondo Classico: 10 (1988), FIG.14.2 (DRAWING) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1574 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 995.122 , 1677 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 438 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 152 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 312 Chiesa, G.S. (ed.), Vasi immagini collezionismo, La collezione di vasi Intesa Sanpaolo e i nuovi indirizzi di ricerca sulla ceramica greca e magnogreca, Milano, 7-8 novembre 2007 (Milan, 2008): 145, FIG.4 (PARTS OF BD) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ATHENS, MUSEE NATIONAL 1, III.J.BCD.5, PL.(035) 3.1-2.4 View Whole CVA Plates Giudice E., Il tymbos, la stele e la barca di Caronte, L'Immaginario della morte sulle lekythoi funerarie a fondo bianco (Rome, 2015): 161, FIG.6 (PARTS OF BD) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 177 Lapatin, K. (ed.), Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Proceedings of a symposium held in connection with the exhibition The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006 (Los Angeles, 2008): 67, FIG.6 (PART) Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 17.1 (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2006) 38, FIGS.3-4 (COLOUR OF BD) Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): PL.93B-C (BD) Schmidt, S., Rhetorische Bilder auf attischen Vasen, Visuelle Kommunikation im 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Berlin, 2005): 61, FIG.26 (BD) Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Leukes Likythoi tou Zoographou tou Achilleos sto Ethniko Archaiologiko Mouseio (Athens, 1998): 114, FIG.30, PLS.17-20 (COLOUR, PROFILE)
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Eretria. Achilles Painter. Second quarter fifth. Early
(Beazley). 460-450. 460/55-450 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Mistress and Maid: woman to right holding alabastron and plemochoe; behind
her, a stool; at right, woman to left with offering tray from which hang many
fillets; between them a stork facing the second woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of the left woman's (mistress') face, below the top and between the
heads, horizontal stoich. left-aligned three-liner: Διφιλος καλος Μελανοπο.
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CAVI Comments: Second white used. Ionic alphabet with omicron for omega.
CAVI Number: 0831
AVI Bibliography: Collignon–Couve (1902–4), no. 1628, pl. 49. — K. Rhomaios, CVA Athens 1,
Greece 1 (1930), pl. 3,1. — ARV[2] (1963), 995/122, 1677. — Para. (1971), 438. —
Tzouvara-Soule (1983), 82, fig. 54. — Lissarrague (1988), fig. 14,2. — Add.[2]
(1989), 312. — Add.[2] (1989), 312. — Oakley (1997), 136/171, pl. 93B-C
(details: both figures; one detail shows inscription small).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)