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205320, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 13.194

  • Vase Number: 205320
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
  • Provenance: ITALY, SICILY, GELA
  • Date: -500 to -450
  • Attributed To: DOURIS by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body: YOUTH SQUATTING, PLAYING LYRE
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 13.194
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 447.273
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 375
    Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.130, NO.O4
    Panvini, R. and Giudice, F. (eds.), Ta Attika, Attic Figured Vases from Gela (Rome, 2003): 321.G72 (BD)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2931
  • AVI Record Number: 2783
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 13.194.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. From Gela. Douris{1}; Oedipus Painter (Guy). 480-470. Ca. 470. Polyphrasmon period (Beazley in CB){2}.
  • CAVI Subject: Int.: youth, naked except for for his himation slung over his shoulder, crouching to right, with open mouth and playing the lyre: about to sing.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Above him, in large letters, near horizontal and widely spaced: καλος.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} "Late. School piece." (Beazley). {2} CB does not mention that it may be a school piece.
  • CAVI Comments: Attic alphabet with four-stroke sigma. CB and Para. have the number as 13.104. ARV[2] and I have 13.194.
  • CAVI Number: 2783
  • AVI Bibliography: Caskey (1918), 119, fig. 7 (dr.). — CB (1931–63), iii, 28/135, pl. 84 (shows inscription). — ARV[2] (1963), 447/273. — Para. (1971), 375. — Buitron-Oliver (1995), 88/O 4, pl. 130.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462214
  • Coordinates: 37.07117,14.248967
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 37.0630925,14.2584705
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Last updated 26/07/2024 18:23:00 by Parker, Greg. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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