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)
