Decoration: Body: PARIS (NAMED) SEATED ON ROCK IN PATTERNED SUIT WITH CLUB, EROS, ATHENA (NAMED) WITH SNAKE, HELEN (NAMED), STATUE OF ATHENA (PALLADION)
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 1282
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: CC1942
Publication Record: Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1896, 36 (DRAWING) Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1896, 36 (DRAWING) Ghali-Kahil, L., Les Enlevements et le retour d'Helene (Paris, 1955): PL.41.4, NO.123 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.313, HELENE 120 Tetskhladze, G., Prag, A., & Snodgrass, A. (eds.), Periplous, Papers on Classical Art and Archaeology presented to Sir John Boardman (London, 2000): 272, FIGS.1-3 (BD) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens, 2009): 195, FIG.12
CAVI Lemma: RF SQUAT LEKYTHOS. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. EARLY FOURTH.
CAVI Subject: UNCERTAIN: PARIS AND HELEN OR JUDGMENT OF PARIS? AT LEFT, A WOMAN; EROS AND
PARIS, SEATED; ATHENA.
CAVI Inscriptions: ABOVE THE WOMAN'S HEAD; ΗΓ̣[--{1}. ABOVE PARIS' HEAD: Αλ[εξ]ανδρο[ς(?)]{2}.
STARTING TO LEFT OF ATHENA'S HELMET CREST: Α(θ)η̣[--{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} ETA AND A LETTER THAT LOOKS LIKE A GAMMA IN GUILLERON'S DRAWING (AA
1896). THE ANXIOUS EXPRESSION OF THE FIGURE ARGUES AGAINST THE IDENTIFICATION
WITH HERA. C. ROBERT'S SUGGESTION [Παρ]ηγ[ορος] HAS RIGHTLY BEEN REJECTED. {2}
THE FINAL SIGMA MAY NOT HAVE BEEN WRITTEN. {3} THETA A BLOT; ETA UNCERTAIN.
CAVI Comments: = ATHENS, N.M. CC 1942. FOR THE SUBJECT, SEE KAHIL, LOC. CIT. IONIC ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 0770
AVI Bibliography: BADB 32,481. — DE WITTE (1867), PL. 224,2. — ARNDT (1896), 88, FIG. 50 (AFTER
AA 1896 [[, 36]]). — PERNICE (1896), 36-38, FIG. ON P. 36 (DR.). —
COLLIGNON–COUVE (1902–4), NO. 1942 (MUCH BIBL.). — A.B. COOK (1940), 770, FIG.
567 (AFTER SAME [[I.E. AA 1896, AS WITH ARNDT]]). — CLAIRMONT (1951), 56/K 173.
— GHALI-KAHIL (1955), 162/123, PL. 41,4 (AFTER AZ 1867). — LIMC IV (1988), PL.
313, HELENE 120.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
