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9654, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, Athens, National Museum, 595

  • Vase Number: 9654
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
  • Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
  • Date: -525 TO -475
  • Attributed To: SAPPHO P by HASPELS
  • Decoration: Body: DRAPED FIGURE MOUNTING WINGED CHARIOT, SACRIFICE AT ALTAR WITH FIRE, MEN (PELOPS AND OINOMAOS ?), ONE DRAPED HOLDING (MEAT ?), ONE WITH SPITS (SPLANCHNOPT), SHIELD, SPEARS, AND HELMET, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
  • Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: CC968
  • Previous Collections:
    • Athens, National Museum: 595
  • Publication Record: Aktseli, D., Altäre in der archaischen und klassischen Kunst, Untersuchungen zu Typologie und Ikonographie, Int. Archäologie 28 (Espelkamp, 1996): PL.1.2 (PART)
    Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 758, FIG.235 (BD)
    Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 226.8, 96, 98, 123, PLS.33.1A-C, 35.2
    Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.9.5-8 (BD)
    Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 74.2 (2005) 223, FIG.12 (BD)
    Lacroix, L., Etudes d'archeologie numismatique (Paris, 1974): PL.14
    Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.21.1 (PART OF BD)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.220, PELOPS 12 (PARTS)
    Lissarrague, F. et al. (eds.), Ceramique et peinture Grecques, Modes d'emploi, Actes du colloque internat., Ecole du Louvre, April 1995 (Paris, 1999): 185, FIG.1E (PROFILE)
    Nikephoros: 4 (1991) 319, FIGS.1A-B (PARTS)
    PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 6
    Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: I, PL.31.GR562 (PART)
    van Straten, F.T., Hiera Kala, Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece (Leiden, 1995): FIG.153 (PART)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=839
  • AVI Record Number: 725
  • LIMC ID: 8430
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-741B0C78BB72C-E
  • CAVI Collection: ATHENS, N.M. 595.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. FROM LOCRIS. SAPPHO PAINTER. EARLY FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: DEPARTURE IN CHARIOT AND SACRIFICE:{1}. CHARIOTEER MOUNTING A WINGED-HORSE CHARIOT; A PRIEST AND A YOUTH ROAST MEAT AT AN ALTAR.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: TO RIGHT OF THE CHARIOTEER'S FACE: (κ)α̣λ̣ο(ς){2}. UNDER THE HORSES: IMITATION LETTERS. IN FRONT OF THEM: κ AND TRACES (OF καλος?). ABOVE THE SACRIFICIAL SCENE, IN THE CENTER: καλος.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} REPEATEDLY IDENTIFIED AS OINOMAUS SACRIFICING, AND PELOPS MOUNTING HIS CHARIOT (HASPELS). {2} KAPPA SMEARED; SIGMA SLOPPY AND SMALL.
  • CAVI Comments: SLOPPY WRITING.
  • CAVI Number: 0725
  • AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — SAUER (1891), 36, FIG. 23. — COLLIGNON–COUVE (1902–4), NO. 968. — HASPELS (1936), 96, 98, 123, N. 2, 226[[/8]], PLS. 33,1A-C AND 35 (NO. 8(?); BIBL.).
  • 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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Last updated 27/09/2025 04:07:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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