Decoration: Body: DOMESTIC, WOMEN, ONE SEATED, WOOL WORKING (?), ONE WITH SPINDLE AND TENDRIL, ONE WITH MIRROR, ONE WITH FILLET, (SOME NAMED), STOOL, BIRD, COCK
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 2.560
Publication Record: Barringer, J.M., Divine Escorts, Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 1995): PLS.122-125 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1585, 1615 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 479.336 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 221.155 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 121 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 247 Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 2 (Berlin, 1933): PL.44.560 Journal of Hellenic Studies: 14 (1894) PL.3.2 Kunisch, N., Makron (Mainz, 1997): PL.49.142 Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 252, FIG.134
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF pyxis. From Athens. Makron. First quarter fifth. 500-490.
"Still early" (ARV[2]). Hauptwerk I (Kunisch).
CAVI Subject: Women walking, standing, sitting in the gynaikonitis (probably a brothel,
Kunisch).
CAVI Inscriptions: L. to r.: to right of lower part of a draped woman to right, not facing her
(and to left of a swan): Μακρ[--], Μακρ[ον εγραφσεν]. In white, on a red sash,
on the left end of a red taenia held by a woman standing to left: κα[λ --]{1}.
On the other end: [hιππ]οδαμας καλε{2}. Between the taenia-carrier and the
bottom of another female figure who faces right, facing the figure at right:
Σιβ[--]{3}. To left of a woman seated to left: [--]λε. Behind her back, facing
the next woman who is standing to right: Nαυσιστρ[ατε]/Nαυσιστρα[τ]ε. To right
of the last, above a stool and facing the next figure who is walking to left:
[Μ]ελιτ[τ]α : καλε/κα[λε]?.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} K. restores κα[λος], perhaps to connect with Hippodamas. {2} so
Graef–Langlotz, Beazley in BSA and the sketch in Kunisch, p. 175; ARV[2] has
hιπποδαμας complete (error?). The last word, Kunisch thinks, is καλε, miswritten
because of the other kale's, which refer to hetaerae. {3} there is no good
parallel in LGPN ii, but cf. Σιβιλλα [[Σίβυλλα(?)]].
CAVI Comments: For the possible painter's signature, see BSA and ARV[2]; it may also be a
(rare) woman's name. On p. 123, Kunisch thinks the inscriptions represent a
conversation. On p. 15, he denies that Μακρ[--] is a signature. He notes the
names Μακρω and Μακρινη (see 16 n. 69). [There is no fem. Μακρ- name in LGPN
ii.] - Robertson points out that the position of Μακρ[--] (which may be a
woman's name or a second signature) is the same as that of the known signature
of Makron on Boston 13.186. Melitta, Peek. Beazley thought that the κα[--] could
also be the name of another woman. - Bothmer (1982), 52: Makron marked the
little islands reserved for inscriptions with heavy glaze, applied at the same
time as the contour stripes and before the background was painted in. Cf. Louvre
G 148.+. - Kunisch thinks that the recurrence of καλε suggests that the women
are hetaerae. For the name Hippodamas see Kunisch 20 n. 89. - The number of
women is not clear to me. There are slight differences in readings in Beazley
(1927–8): καλε is complete after Μελιτ[τ]α. Kunisch is not quite clear either. -
Inscriptions in white. Attic. Dotted delta (but not in Kunisch).
CAVI Number: 1396
AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), ii, no. 560, pl. 43 (dr.). — Beazley (1927–8), 192,
n. 6. — Richter–Hall (1936), i, 74, n. 19. — ARV[2] (1963), 479/336, 458. —
Roberts (1978), pls. 8,1,2 and 9,2. — Bothmer (1982), 52. — Add.[2] (1989), 247.
— AttScr (1990), no. 559. — Robertson (1992), 101. — Kunisch (1997), 8, *15-16
and n. 68, 19, 20 n. 88, 117, 123, 175/142, pl. 49 (a few inscriptions show).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
