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231226, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1851,0416.8

  • Vase Number: 231226
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
  • Shape Name: OINOCHOE
  • Date: -525 TO -475
  • Inscriptions: CHARINOS
    Kalos/Kale: CHSENODOKE KALE
    Signature: CHARINOS EPOIES[
    XENODOKE
  • Attributed To: Compare CHARINOS CLASS by BEAZLEY
    CHARINOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: Body: GRAPEVINE
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B631
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 423, 697
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1532
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 181
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 109
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.24.100-101 (PARTS)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4550
  • AVI Record Number: 4378
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1851-0416-8
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON B 631.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF/WG OINOCHOE. UNATTRIBUTED. CHARINOS, POTTER. LATE SIXTH.
  • CAVI Subject: GRAPE VINE IN SILHOUETTE STYLE, ALL AROUND.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: UNDER THE VINE, ALL AROUND, IN TWO GROUPS: Χαρινος : εποιεσ[εν], UPSIDE DOWN. Χσενοδο[κ]ε [----](.)κα.. καλε.
  • CAVI Comments: CF. Ξενοδοκος, PA 11,192. MY READING IS FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. BEAZLEY'S BEST READING IS IN ABV: FOR THE SIGNATURE, NO TRACE AFTER THE SECOND SIGMA, BUT THE SURFACE IS NOT PERFECTLY PRESERVED. FOR THE SECOND INSCRIPTION ABV HAS: Χσενοδο[κ]ε 3-4 (.)(.) παι̣υ̣ καλε [..]. THIS IS BETTER THAN THE TEXT IN JHS 49, 44, N. 30, AS CORRECTED ON P. 311. WALTERS RESTORES: Χσενοδο[κ]ε [μοι(?) δοκε]ι παις καλε, BUT THE INSCRIPTION IS SURELY MISWRITTEN. COHEN: THE LETTERING IS CHARINOS', NOTE THE ANGULAR RHO. THE 2-DOT PUNCTUATION IS OLD-FASHIONED: THIS IS THE EARLIEST SIGNATURE OF CHARINOS.
  • CAVI Number: 4378
  • AVI Bibliography: H.B. WALTERS IN BM CAT. B (1893), 288. — HOPPIN (1924), 69 (WRONGLY SAYS SIG. IS INCISED). — BEAZLEY (1929), 44, N. 30, AND P. 311. — ABV (1956), 423, 697. — ARV[2] (1963), 1532. — PARA. (1971), 182. — ADD.[2] (1989), 109. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 437, FIGS. 100-101. — COHEN (1991), 79-80 (NOT ILL.). — CLARK (1992), 65-66.
  • 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 15/12/2025 06:05:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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