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)
