Decoration: Body: JUDGEMENT OF PARIS, MAN, WOMAN, BETWEEN SPHINXES Frieze below: ANIMAL FRIEZE, COCKS, FLORAL, BETWEEN SPHINXES Neck: PROCESSION OF WOMEN AND YOUTHS, ONE PLAYING PIPES, INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Acropolis Museum
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 45 Eleftheratou, S., Acropolis Museum. Guide (Athens, 2014): 51, FIG.42 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF LOUTROPHOROS{1}. FROM ATHENS. LYDOS. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH (?). 540 (?).
CAVI Subject: NECK: PROCESSION (HYMENAIOS). BODY: JUDGMENT OF PARIS; WOMAN AND MALE.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE NECK: [υ]μενυμεναιευυμεαιε, COMPLETE AFT.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} A FR. IN NEW JERSEY, PRIVATE, ASSIGNED TO LYDOS BY BOTHMER, MAY BELONG
(PARA.).
CAVI Comments: A MOCK INSCRIPTION PLAYING WITH THE INVOCATION υμεναιε. "THE FOURTH AND FIFTH
OF THE PRESERVED LETTERS ARE UPSIDE DOWN ... AND SO IS THE FIFTH LETTER FROM THE
END ... ." (PARA.). IN THE MS. PARA., P. 67, BEAZLEY GIVES THE SEVENTH LETTER
FROM THE END AS LAMBDA. UNPUBLISHED.
