Attributed To:Recalls DOURIS by BEAZLEY CLASS CL by BEAZLEY DOURIS by SEYRIG
Decoration: Body: EDUCATION, YOUTH SEATED ON CHAIR WITH SCROLL, WRITING TABLET SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: London, market, Christie's
Previous Collections:
Paris, private
Neuchatel, private, Seyrig
New York (N.Y.), market, Sotheby's Parke Bernet
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 52 (1948) 336-37 [WRITING ON SCROLL], PL.34 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 452 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 452, 677.7 Blanck, H., Das Buch in der Antike (Munich, 1992): 27, FIG.10 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 119 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 242
CAVI Lemma: RF LEKYTHOS. RELATED TO DOURIS{1}. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 470.
CAVI Subject: A SEATED BOY HOLDING UP A BOOK ROLL AND LOOKING AHEAD AT AN IMAGINARY
COMPANION OR TEACHER.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE BOOK ROLL, NON-STOICH. TWO-LINER: Hερμ[ν] | (ἀ)είδο̅.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} AND RECALLS ATHENS 12,781 (RF LEKYTHOS BY THE CARTELLINO PAINTER, ARV[2]
452/6).
CAVI Comments: EX BEYROUTH, SEYRIG. LISTED IN ADD.[2] AS `ONCE NEUCHâTEL, SEYRIG'; AS
NEUCHâTEL, FORMERLY PARIS, SEYRIG (ROBERTSON, ROBERTSON (1992), 312 N.39).
EXCERPT FROM A SCHOOL SCENE, OR YOUTHS AT PLAY. THE TEXT IS THE BEGINNING OF THE
SHORTER HYMN TO HERMES. THE ALPHA LACKS THE CROSS STROKE.
