208313, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1824,0501.16

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Vase Number: 208313
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
Date: -475 to -425
Attributed To: Recalls BOWDOIN P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: PYRRHIC, WARRIOR, SHIELD DEVICE WREATH, CLOTH ON STOOL
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E573
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1824,0501.16 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 16 (1973), PL.7.2
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 694
Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 137
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 280
Delavaud-Roux, M-H., Les danses armees en Grece antique (Aix-en-Provence, 1993): 82, NO.11
Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 262.1, PL.22.2
Vollmer, C., Im Anfang war der Thron. Studien zum leeren Thron in der griechischen, römischen und frühchristlichen Ikonographie (Rahden, 2014): PL.16, FIG.2 (BD)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4802
AVI Record Number: 4630
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1824-0501-16
CAVI Collection: London E 573.
CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. Manner of Bowdoin Painter (Beazley){1}. First quarter fifth (?). Early (Beazley).
CAVI Subject: Pyrrhichist(2); at right, a diphros with a cloak.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: σοτσο. τοσαεσ{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} appended to manner of Bowdoin Painter: shape is Bowdoin Painter's, but shoulder palmettes are RF. Haspels lists with three other lekythos as having been made in the workshop of the Athena Painter. {2} so ARV[2]; Smith calls her an Amazon. {3} Haspels, p. 74 gives: (σ)οτ(σ)ο (the first letter, four-stroke sigma reversed; the fourth a `Z' reversed) and (.)οσδεσ (the first letter = lambda 6; both sigmas, sigma 1).
CAVI Comments: Clear writing.
CAVI Number: 4630
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 325. — Haspels (1936), *74-75, 162, 262/1, pl. 22,2 (does not show inscription). — Cf. ARV[1] (1942), 480/α. — ARV[2] (1963), 694/bottom, 1666. — Add.[2] (1989), 280.
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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