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
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.
