Attributed To: NEGRO ALABASTRA, GROUP OF THE by UNKNOWN
Decoration: Body: WOMAN WITH WREATH AT LAVER, PALM TREE, DOG, INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: London, market, Bonhams
Previous Collections:
London, private, Embiricos
London, market, Christie's
Publication Record: Bonhams: 28.4.2010, 45, 90, NO.180 (COLOUR OF PART) Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: 28.4.1993, 50, NO.20 (COLOUR) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (PARTS)
CAVI Lemma: WG ALABASTRON. GROUP OF NEGRO ALABASTRA. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: WOMAN WITH A WREATH AT A LAVER; PALM TREE; DOG.
CAVI Inscriptions: Μελαν(θ)ις [κα]λε{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} TRANSCRIBED BY ME FROM MELANPHIS [KA]LE IN BEA. ARCH. I ASSUME THAT THE
THETA HAS A VERTICAL(?) STROKE THAT MAKES IT LOOK LIKE A PHI. BEA. ARCH.
MENTIONS `INSCRIPTIONS' IN THE PLURAL.
CAVI Comments: LGPN II MENTIONS THE NAME Μελανθις TWICE ON OTHER POTTERY: IS THIS PERHAPS
THE SAME PERSON?
CAVI Number: 4776
AVI Bibliography: BADB 45,148. — CHRISTIES (1993), 50/20 (COLOR).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)