Decoration: Body: WOMEN WITH WHIPS AND SPINNING TOPS
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), private, Herrmann
Publication Record: Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 245-246, FIGS.9D, 11-14 (INCLUDING PROFILE OF FOOT) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 17, FIG.1.12A-B (BD)
CAVI Subject: Two women playing with tops: that on the left is beating hers; that on right
has finished playing.
CAVI Inscriptions: Between the women's heads, at the height of the second one's head (she stands
straighter), horizontal: καλε.
CAVI Comments: I think the inscription refers to the woman on the right who is more
impressive and has a more mature hairdo. Oakley says this is the only vase by
this painter to have an inscription; but there are only two RF vases attributed
to him (the second is Dresden, Albertinum ZV 2777, ARV[2] (1963), 1227/11); the
others are WG lekythoi.
CAVI Number: 7864a
AVI Bibliography: Oakley (1997a), 247 and nn. 9.d (profile), 13, 46 and 47, figs. 11-14 (fig.
12 shows some letters).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
