Decoration: Body: WARRIOR LEADING WOMAN (MENELAOS AND HELEN, RECOVERY ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, lost: 3253
Publication Record: Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987): 203, FIG.3 (PART) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIKENSAMMLUNG 17, 133, PL.() Ducrey, P., Guerre et Guerriers dans la Grece Antique (Paris, 1985): 238 (DRAWING OF PART) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 255, 29, PL.46.1 Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.13.1-2 (PARTS OF BD) Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung, Dokumentation der Verluste, V.1, Skulpturen, Vasen, Elfenbein und Knochen, Goldschmuck, Gemmen und Kameen (Berlin, 2005): 171
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. From Eretria{1}. Athena Painter. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Warriors leading off a woman.(2)
CAVI Inscriptions: Numerous nonsense inscriptions: above the arm at left, diagonally upward:
σο(δ)ι (the third letter unclear); on its right, along the woman's back: οτ,
probably other letters below; between the woman's and warrior's heads,
diagonally upwards: ο(.)σ; between their lower bodies, similar, but probably
downward: σε^τρκ (uncertain reading); further letters between the warrior and
the old man; to right of the latter's head, curving downward: σοτσ. Typical
lettering.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Berlin inv. 3252. {2} the phs. in Haspels do not show the whole
scene: at left, raised arm of a warrior to right(?); woman to right, led by a
warrior to right (χειρ επι καρπῳ); bearded man to left; warrior to left.
CAVI Comments: On Athena Painter's use of nonsense inscriptions, see Haspels, p. 150.
CAVI Number: 2459
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 147-55, 255/29, pl. 46,1a-b (shows letters) (no bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
