Decoration: Body: FUNERARY, THANATOS AND HYPNOS WITH BODY, STELE
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 17294
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: 17924
Publication Record: Annali del Seminario di Studi del Mondo Classico: 10 (1988) FIG.12.1 (DRAWING) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 750 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ATHENS, MUSEE NATIONAL 2, III.JC.13, PL.(094) 20.1.4 View Whole CVA Plates Giudice E., Il tymbos, la stele e la barca di Caronte, L'Immaginario della morte sulle lekythoi funerarie a fondo bianco (Rome, 2015): 36, FIG.1 (PART OF BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.617, THANATOS 14 (PART) Oakley, J., Picturing Death in Classical Athens, The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge, 2004): 127, FIG.88 (DRAWING) Revue des Etudes Anciennes: 99 (1997) 57, FIGS.2A-B (PART, DRAWING OF BD) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 147, FIG.96 (PART) Spivey, N., The Sarpedon Krater, The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase (Chicago, 2018): 156, FIG.43 (DRAWING OF BD) Walter-Karydi, E. (ed.), Myths, Texts, Images, Homeric epics and ancient Greek art, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Odyssey, Ithaca, September 15-19, 2009 (Ithaca, 2010): 220, FIG.6 (DRAWING OF BD) Walter-Karydi, E., Die Athener und ihre Gräber (1000-300 v.Chr.) (Berlin, 2015): 141, FIG.74 (DRAWING OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. Unattributed{1}. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Thanatos and Hypnos, both winged, depositing a child's body [so K.] before a
stele that stands on a two-stepped base.
CAVI Inscriptions: On each step, in BG: nonsense: four imitation letters. On the stele, above
the child: καλος{2}. To left and right of the stele, below the top margin: ακ ^
κ[--?]{3}. To left of the stele, kionedon: καλος{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} placed in ARV[2] somewhere near the Painter of London 1905. {2} so CVA,
text; the dr. only has: κ[--]. {3} so the dr. {4} the sigma four-stroke and
reversed.
CAVI Comments: Ionic alphabet.
CAVI Number: 0921
AVI Bibliography: S. Karouzou, CVA Athens 2, Greece 2 (1954), III J c, pl. 20,1,4. — ARV[2]
(1963), 750.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
