Attributed To:Connected with ADRIA P by BEAZLEY Recalls ANCONA P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A,B: EDUCATION, DRAPED YOUTHS SEATED, WITH SCROLLS, STYLUS, WRITING TABLET, LYRE , WRITING TABLES SUSPENDED, BASKET I: MAN OR YOUTH SEATED WITH LYRE
Last Recorded Collection: Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina: 19108
Previous Collections:
Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina: T45CVP
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 349.1 Berti, F. and Restani, D. (eds.), Lo specchio della musica, iconografia nella ceramica attica di Spina (Bologna, 1988): xxvi, 89 (I, A, COLOUR PL. OF B) Würzburger Jahrbücher für die Altertumswissenschaft N.F.: 14 (1988) 282-283, FIGS.4-6 (I, A, B)
CAVI Collection: Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina 19,108.
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Spina. Connected with Adria Painter{1}. Early fifth{2}.
CAVI Subject: Int.: youth seated frontally and playing the lyre; on the wall, a bag and a
`cross'. Ext.: school: A: two seated youths facing, with book rolls; at right, a
youth seated frontally, with stylus and tablets; two tied-up tablets (satchels)
and a `cross' are on the wall. B: a seated youth with stylus and tablets; in the
center, a seated youth holding up a lyre; at right, a seated youth with a book
roll; on the wall, tied-up tablets (satchels) and a `cross'.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: above the youth's head: καλος. A and B: the book rolls have letters on
them, both inside and on the rolled-up parts. Pöhlmann mentions: Α, Ε, Ζ and
`Argive' lambda.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} but not Antiphontic; recalls Ancona Painter (ARV[2]). {2} the tomb after
475, but the vase is earlier.
CAVI Comments: = T 45CVAP. Pöhlmann thinks this the earliest example of the combination of
book rolls, tablets and musical instruments.
CAVI Number: 3486
AVI Bibliography: BADB 203,657 (no bibl.). — ARV[2] (1963), 349/1 (no bibl.). — Beck (1975),
22, n. 7(l). — Pöhlmann (1988), 16 n. 71, 18-19, figs. 4-6 (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
