Attributed To:Near HECTOR P by BEAZLEY PELEUS P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: MELOUSA (NAMED) WITH PIPES, TERPSICHORE (NAMED) SEATED ON CHAIR PLAYING HARP, MOUSAIOS (NAMED) WITH LYRE AND LAUREL BRANCH, KITHARA SUSPENDED B: DRAPED YOUTHS WITH STAFFS, WOMAN
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E271
Publication Record: Anderson, W.D., Music and Musicians in Ancient Greece (Ithaca, 1994): PL.7 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1039.13 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 397.1 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 443 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.144 (A) Bol, P. (ed.), Zum Verhältnis von Raum und Zeit in der griechischen Kunst (2003): PL.4, FIG.7 (PART OF A) Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 31, FIG.18 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 156 Buschor, E., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1914): 199 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 319 Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery (London, 1966): PL.46A (A) Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery 3rd ed. (London, 1997): PL.46A (A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.Ic.6, PLS.(176,177) 11.1A-C12.2 View Whole CVA Plates Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.139 (A, B) Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indigeni, Volume primo, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di studi, 14-19 maggio 2001, Catania, Caltanisetta, Gela, Camarina, Vittoria, Siracusa (Rome, 2010): 59, FIG.1 (A) Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien: 13/14 (2011/2012) 228, FIG.8 (COLOUR OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.408, MOUSAIOS 3 (A) Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 102, FIG.5 (A) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 115, PL.95 (A) Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): V, PL.37 Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.555 (A) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 215, FIG.224 (A) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 92, FIG.106 (A) Tsiaphaki, D., I Thraki stin attiki eikonographia tou 5ou aiona p. Ch., Prosengiseis stis scheseis Athinas kai Thrakis (Komotini, 1998): 356, FIG.34A (A) West, M.L., Ancient Greek Music (Oxford, 1992): PL.21 (A)
CAVI Comments: The name Melousa seems to me connected with μελος, although there is a proper
name Μελλουσα (Pape).
CAVI Number: 4546
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 8458c. — FR (1904–32), iii, 107-109, pl. 139. — H.B.
Walters, CVA London 3, Great Britain 4 (1927), III I c, pl. 11,1a-c. — ARV[2]
(1963), 1039/13 (much bibl.). — Para. (1971), 443. — Add.[2] (1989), 319. —
Boardman (1989), fig. 144. — LIMC vi (1992), pl. 408, Mousaios 3. — Robertson
(1992), 214 and fig. 224 (A). — Matheson (1995), 113, 439/PE16, pl. 95.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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