Decoration: A: DRAPED MEN WITH STAFFS SEATED AT GAMES TABLE, BIRD IN TREE, KRATER (?) LYRE AND PIPESCASE SUSPENDED B: ATHLETES, DISKOBOLOS, ACONTIST, MAN IN CHITON PLAYING PIPES
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 68.27
Previous Collections:
Paris, Musée du Louvre: 11990
Publication Record: Annual Report of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 1979-80, 36 (A) WITH LOUVRE FRR D'Agostino, B. et al., Alba della citta, alba delle immagini? (Athens 2008): 98, FIG.6 (A) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 65, FIGS.4-5 (A, B) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 1 (PART OF A) [PARIS FRAGMENT] Revue du Louvre: 27 (1977), 216, FIGS.3-4 Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PL.20.3 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: TWO BEARDED MEN (NOT HEROES) PLAYING DICE, SEATED ON EITHER SIDE OF A
TABLE; ON THE WALL, AT THE UPPER LEFT, A FLUTE CASE; IN THE CENTER, A TREE, ON
TOP OF WHICH SITS A BIRD; AT RIGHT, ON THE UPPER WALL, A LYRE. B: PALAESTRA: AT
LEFT, A DISCOBOLUS TO RIGHT; ON THE GROUND TWO SPEARS; IN THE CENTER A ROBED
FLAUTIST TO LEFT; AT RIGHT, AN ACONTIST; ON THE GROUND TWO SPEARS. ALL FIGURES
ARE BEARDED.
CAVI Inscriptions: B: BETWEEN THE DISCOBOLUS AND FLAUTIST, VERTICALLY DOWN: Στρατος. SIMILARLY
BETWEEN THE FLAUTIST AND ACONTIST: A NAME OF 8 LETTERS,WITH HAND AND SPEAR
INTERVENING AFTER THE THIRD LETTER{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} I CANNOT READ THIS IN THE PH. IN `POTTERS AND PAAINTERS':
δ̣ε̣(ο)^ιλλος(?) THE OMICRON COULD BE THETA OR PHI.
CAVI Comments: + FRS. ADDED BY BOTHMER: L68.121 AND L1980.34.1. SHAPIRO POINTS OUT THAT THE
MEN ON A WEAR THEIR CLOTHES AS DO LOWER-CLASS PEOPLE (BANAUSOI) IN OIL-SELLING
SCENES.
CAVI Number: 5722A
AVI Bibliography: ANON. (1965–75), 126. — ANON. (1979–80), 36. — PATTENDEN (1982), PL. 6D. —
SHAPIRO (1997), 65 AND N. 30, FIGS. 4-5 (A, B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
