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
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)