Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1669 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 772 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 141 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 287 Cohen, B., The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 314, NO.97 (COLOUR OF PART) Fraser, J., Luxury and power, Persia to Greece, British Museum (London, 2023): 154, FIG.151 RIGHT (COLOUR OF PART) Miller, M.C., Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC, A study in cultural receptivity (Cambridge, 1997): PL.37 (A) Schierup, S. & Rasmussen, B.B. (eds.), Red-figure Pottery in its Ancient Setting, Gosta Enbom Monographs 2 (Copenhagen, 2012): 45, FIG.1 RIGHT (COLOUR OF PART) Tsingarida, A. with Kurtz, D. (eds.), Appropriating Antiquity, Saisir l'Antique (Brussels, 2002): 256, FIG.3 (COLOUR DRAWING OF PART)
CAVI Lemma: Phiale mesomphalos. From Athens. Unattributed. Sotades, potter. Second
quarter fifth. Ca. 460-450 (Cohen).
CAVI Subject: Inside white with black lip and black nipple.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the lip, Gr., near-stoich. left-aligned two-liner: Σοταδες | εποιε.
CAVI Comments: As Boston 98.886, ARV[2] 772/δ, but without the cicada (Beazley; the
inscription similar but fragmentary). The inscription is in very thin lines,
quickly engraved, clear and small, but not neat. The vase is part of a set, from
one tomb: see London D 5. Omicron round and rectangular; cf. Louvre CA 3825.
Attic alphabet.
CAVI Number: 4399
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 392 (not ill.). — ARV[2] (1963), 772/ε, 1669.
— Add.[2] (1989), 287. — Cohen (1991), 82, fig. 60 (good for inscription). —
Robertson (1992), 185. — Hoffmann (1997), 169 n. 26 (tomb group), 170/U2, figs.
102-103 (ph. of side and profile; 102 shows inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
