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)
