Decoration: A: HERMES RUNNING WITH KERYKEION B: GRAFFITO
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P17971
Previous Collections:
Athens, Agora Museum: P17898
Publication Record: Camp, J.M., Gods and Heroes in the Athenian Agora (Athens, 1980): 12, FIG.21 (A) The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 30, PL.82.802
CAVI Lemma: RF mug. From Athens, Agora A 16-19:1. Unattributed{1}. Second quarter fifth
(Moore).
CAVI Subject: Hermes running to left, holding out his kerykeion.
CAVI Inscriptions: Between the handle and the raised kerykeion, roughly horizontal, Gr.: Μιδων
vacat. Three of the four vertical strokes below the inscription are visible in
the ph. in Agora 30. The ph. suggests strongly that the name begins with a mu,
as Lang has it, and not with chi (Χλιδων, V&S); so also LGPN ii.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} not in Beazley. Unattributed by Moore. Vicinity of Alkimachos Painter
(Feytmans, orally).
CAVI Comments: Agora 21 combines P 17,971 and P 17,898. Moore gives only P 17,971; the other
number is not found in Moore. The first two lines of "mu" intersect, hence V&S'
reading. A Chlidon was active in Thebes 379 BC: Plut. Pelopidas 8, etc. Others:
Plut. Moralia 789B; BCH 24 (1900) 346. Midon may be the father, or teacher, of
Lamprokles, Σ Ar., Nub., 968, who in turn may be in Alexis, Midon (Ath.
11.491c). Owner's name, as Lang assumes. - Lang says the strokes are
unexplained.
CAVI Number: 546a
AVI Bibliography: Vanderpool and Stamires ms. — Sparkes–Talcott (1970), 250/under 195. — Lang
(1976), 35/F 78, pl. 14 (dr.). — Camp (1980), 12, fig. 21. — Moore (1997),
253/802, pl. 82 (shows inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
