Decoration: Shoulder: DOMESTIC, COLUMN, WOMEN, SOME SEATED ON CHAIRS PLAYING LYRES, ONE WITH PIPESCASE, ONE WITH SCROLL, ONE WITH BOX AND LYRE, STOOLS, BOX, STORK, EROS WITH WREATH, TENDRIL, WRITING TABLETS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1921.7-10.2
Publication Record: Arethusa: 30 (1997) 1, 60-61, FIGS.11A-B (PARTS OF S) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1060.138 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 445 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 158 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 323 Clark, A.J. and Gaunt, J. (eds.), Essays in Honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, Allard Pierson Series 14 (Amsterdam, 2002): PL.7A (PART OF SH) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 6, III.I.C.3, PL.(358) 83.1A-D View Whole CVA Plates Evans Grubbs, J., and Parkin, T. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World (Oxford, 2013): 403, FIG.20.3 (PART) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 134, FIG.11 (PART) Mouseion: 49 (2005) 13, PL.7 (PART OF S) Revue Archeologique: 1996, 229, FIG.1 (UF) Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D., A History of Greek Art (Oxford, 2015): 274, FIG.11.5 (COLOUR OF PART OF SH)
CAVI Lemma: RF hydria (kalpis). Group of Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth. Mid-fifth
(Williams).
CAVI Subject: Concert of two seated women with lyres, with five other women; a column; a
chest; at left a flying Eros with a wreath; tablets hung up. The woman at right
holds a (partially preserved) book roll, not inscribed.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under the foot, Gr.: AV [[lig.]] or AN [[lig.]], ΠΟΙ (Attic pi), VΔΡΙ{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Johnston in the three places where he lists this vase. CVA has:
ΥΔΙΔΡΑΧΠΟΙΑ/, and explains: 1 hydria for 5 dr. 1 obol, which is certainly wrong.
The reference in CVA to Hackl (1909), 51, 71 does not yield intelligible
information. - I have a letter from ... (illegible) of 9/30/67 reporting that
Anne Birchall at the BM considered the Gr. on London 1921.7-10.2 before firing.
But Johnston in Johnston (1979), does not think that any of these Grr. are
pre-firing.
CAVI Comments: ΠΟΙ is for ποικιλος, `decorated,' cf. Basel, Antikenmuseum BS 407. - Williams
translates: "hydria two drachmai painted," and transcribes in Roman: hy 2 drach
poi. The photo seems to show, curved around the center, facing out: υδ[] |
δραχ[] ποι[] (without word separation), and the ligature of alpha and upsilon:
AV [[lig.]]. I think W. reads a second vertical stroke which is very faint in
the photo.
CAVI Number: 4735
AVI Bibliography: H.B. Walters, CVA London 6, Great Britain 8 (1931), III I c, pl. 83,1a-d. —
ARV[2] (1963), 1060/138. — Immerwahr (1964), 24/13, figs. 7-10. — Para. (1971),
445. — Johnston (1979), 90/2B 29, 156/8F 8, 165/21F 7. — Add.[2] (1989), 323. —
Matheson (1995), 478/PGU 162 (not ill.; inscriptions incorrect, after CVA). — D.
Williams (1996), 228, fig. 1 (detail of foot with Gr.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
