Decoration: Body: MOUSAIOS WITH HARP AND THAMYRAS WITH LYRE, BOTH SEATED, APOLLO WITH LAUREL BRANCH, MUSES, SOME SEATED, ONE WITH SCROLL, ONE WITH LYRE (NAMED, KALLIOPE, SOPHIA, OURANIA, POLYHYMNIA)
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 19636
Publication Record: Archontidou, A. et al., Geschenk van de Muzen, Muziek en dans in het oude Griekenland. Μοuson Dora. Μοusikoi kai choreutikoi apoikoi apo tin archaia Εllada (Athens, 2003): 44, FIG.5 (PART) Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 479.91BIS Castaldo, D., Giannachi, F.G., and Manieri, A. (eds.), Poesia, musica e agoni nella Grecia antica, Poetry, Music and Contests in ancient Greece. Atti del iv convegno internazionale di MOISA, Lecce, 28-30 ottobre 2010, Rudiae 22-23 (2010-2011): 238, FIG.7 Gigante, M. et al., Modi e funzioni del racconto mitico nella ceramica Greca, Italiota ed Etrusca dal VI al IV secolo A.C. (Salerno, 1995): 68-71, FIGS.19-22 (DRAWINGS) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 315, FIG.203 (DRAWING OF BD) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 323, FIG.11 (PART) Tsiaphaki, D., I Thraki stin attiki eikonographia tou 5ou aiona p. Ch., Prosengiseis stis scheseis Athinas kai Thrakis (Komotini, 1998): 357, FIG.35A (PART)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF pyxis{1}. From Athens, Olympieum. Manner of Meidias Painter.
Last quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Thamyras and the Muses; Mousaeus seated playing the harp, with Apollo (and a
Muse){2}. One Muse holds a book roll.
CAVI Inscriptions: Thamyras. Mousaios. Names of Muses{3}. One is Sophia.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} fr. of RF lekanis (Burn); so Para.: very large, type A. {2} other
musicians must also have been represented (Beazley). {3} "Both Πολυμνια and
Πολυμνε (in the Old Attic alphabet) are said to be used as dipinti to identify
the muse on a rf. vase, cf. Philippaki 90", Threatte (1996), 59, cf. 104-105.
CAVI Number: 0939
AVI Bibliography: Anonymous note by someone who had seen photos in Beazley Archive. — Para.
(1971), 479/91 bis (no bibl.). — Burn (1987), 116/MM 133 (not ill.). — SEG 37
(1987), no. 59. — Philippaki (1988), 89ff. — AttScr (1990), no. 670. — H.
Metzger (1990), 630/78.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
