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)
