Decoration: A,B: UNDECORATED I: IRIS WITH WRITING TABLETS AT ALTAR
Last Recorded Collection: San Antonio (TX), Art Museum: 86.134.60
Previous Collections:
London, market, Sotheby's
Publication Record: PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 1 (I) Shapiro, H.A. et al. (eds.), Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995): 146, NO.72 (I, A) Sotheby, sale catalogue: 13-14.7.1981, 128, NO.275 (I)
CAVI Collection: SAN ANTONIO, TX, MUSEUM OF ART 86.134.60.
CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. EUCHARIDES PAINTER (GUY). FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 490-480 (SHAPIRO).
LATE (LANGRIDGE).
CAVI Subject: INT.: IRIS(1) TO RIGHT, BUT LOOKING BACK, BEFORE A FLAMING ALTAR, HOLDS A
CADUCEUS IN HER LEFT HAND AND A SATCHEL (TABLETS BOUND UP WITH A HANDLE; NO
STYLUS) IN THE RIGHT. EXT.: PLAIN.
CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: TO LEFT OF THE LOWER PART OF THE FIGURE, STARTING BELOW THE RIGHT WING,
VERTICALLY DOWN AND FACING THE FIGURE: κ(α)λο(ς), RETR.{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO SHAPIRO AFTER A. KOSSATZ-DEISSMANN IN LIMC V, 741FF.; LANGRIDGE SAYS
IRIS OR NIKE. {2} THE ALPHA LACKS THE CROSS STROKE; THE FINAL SIGMA IS UNCLEAR
IN THE PH.
CAVI Comments: EX COLLECTION G.M. DENMAN, JR. FOR OTHER REPRESENTATIONS OF IRIS WITH TABLETS
SHAPIRO REFERS TO NOS. 16, 29, 34, AND 35 IN LIMC. HERE THE TABLETS REPLACE A
MORE APPROPRIATE PHIALE.
CAVI Number: 7446
AVI Bibliography: SOTHEBY (1981B), LOT 275. — LIMC V (1990), 745, IRIS 22, PL. 486. — LANGRIDGE
(1993), 405/E 170 (NOT ILL.) (NO BIBL.). — H. ALAN SHAPIRO IN
SHAPIRO–PICóN–SCOTT III (1995), 146/72 (INT., SIDE).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
