Decoration: A,B: FUNERARY, PROTHESIS Neck A and B: FUNERARY, WOMEN MOURNING
Last Recorded Collection: Cleveland (OH), Museum of Art: 27.145
Previous Collections:
Cleveland (OH), Museum of Art: 1927.145
Publication Record: Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art: 14 (1927), 98 (A) Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art: 15 (1928), 46 (A) Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art: 60 (1973), 37-60, FIGS.5-8 (A,B,PARTS) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: CLEVELAND, MUSEUM OF ART 1, 11, PLS.(695-696) 15.1-2, 16.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Delavaud-Roux, M-H., Les danses pacifiques en Grece antique (Aix-en-Provence, 1994): 126, NO.55 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF loutrophoros. Unattributed. Ca. 500 (Boulter).
CAVI Subject: Neck: A, B, each: two women mourning. Body: A: a dead woman on the bier, with
six women mourners. B: three male mourners.
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: nonsense (mock inscriptions): to right of the third mourner's face:
οιυλτ{1}. To right of of the fourth mourner's head (although she faces left):
ουτοσοσο. Above the head of the dead: ου{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} this could be two inscriptions, for two mourners: οιυ and λτ. {2}
lambda's and upsilon's are indistinguishable in these inscriptions. - Mommsen
wrongly says in n. 189 that there are dots instead of letters on this vase.
CAVI Comments: The words faintly recall οιμοι.
CAVI Number: 3201
AVI Bibliography: Howard (1927), 101, ill. po. 98; — Whiting (1928), 46. — Zschietzschmann
(1928), no. 61. — C.G. Boulter, CVA Cleveland 1, USA 15 (1971), pls. 15-16; p.
12, fig. 3 (facs.). — H. Mommsen (1997a), 23 n. 189, 70/51.
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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