Decoration: Body: DOMESTIC, WOMEN (NEREIDS), ALL NAMED, SOME SEATED ON CHAIR AND STOOL, ONE WITH WREATH, ONE WITH ALABASTRON, MIRROR AND WREATH SUSPENDED, BIRD, IONIC COLUMN, CHEST, CLOTH ON STOOL
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 40.11.2
Publication Record: Barringer, J.M., Divine Escorts, Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 1995): PLS.126-129 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1213.1 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 347 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.74, GALENE I 5, PL.160, GLAUKE I 6 (PARTS) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.434, PSAMATHE 4 (PART) Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): 244, FIG.84A, NO.252 (PROFILE)
CAVI Lemma: WG PYXIS WITH LID. FROM GREECE. PAINTER OF LONDON D 14. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
435-430 (LEZZI-HAFTER).
CAVI Subject: LID (MOSTLY GONE): LOWER PARTS OF SIX MUSES(?). BODY: SIX NEREIDS (WOMEN'S
QUARTERS).
CAVI Inscriptions: LID: IN FRONT OF A SEATED FIGURE: ...ε...{1}. TO RIGHT OF A STANDING FIGURE:
[Μελ̣]π̣ο̣με̣ν[ε](?). BODY: BESIDE A NEREID WITH A FOLDED GARMENT: Β[εροι]ε̣.
ABOVE THE HEAD OF WOMAN SEATED ON A STOOL: Γ(α)λεδε, MISWRITTEN FOR Γαλεν̣ε{2}.
ABOVE THE HEAD OF A NEREID WITH A GLASS ALABASTRON AND A BOX: Κυ̣μοδο̣[κ]ε. TO
LEFT OF THE MIDDLE OF THE NEREID WITH A DIADEM: Ακτε[ι]ε. ABOVE THE WOMAN
HOLDING A LAUREL WREATH: Γλαυκε{3}. ABOVE THE HEAD OF A SEATED WOMAN: Ψαμα̣θε.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} PART OF A NAME; COULD ALSO BE ...ε OR Ε... . {2} THE FIRST IS MY READING
FROM THE PHOTO IN AJA; THE SECOND IS FROM RICHTER'S TEXT. THE ALPHA RESEMBLES AN
ETA; THE DELTA IS DOTTED (PERHAPS THE DOT IS ACCIDENTAL AND WE HAVE AN
INCOMPLETE NU). {3} Γ̣λα̣υκε, RICHTER (1940), BUT THE LETTERS ARE ALL THERE.
CAVI Comments: THE INSCRIPTIONS DONE AFTER AJA. MIXED ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 5658
AVI Bibliography: RICHTER (1940), 428-31, FIGS. 103. — ARV[2] (1963), 1213/1. —
FREYER-SCHAUENBURG (1973), PL. 9. — LIMC I (1981), PL. 346, AKTAIE I/1. —
LEZZI-HAFTER (1988), 248-49, 346/252 (NOT IN PLS.; FIG. 84,A IS PROFILE). —
ADD.[2] (1989), 347.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
