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, 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)
