Decoration: Body: YOUTH IN CHLAMYS AND PETASOS WITH SWORD
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 83.AE.41
Publication Record: Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 394 J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: 12 (1984), 243, NO.62 PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 4 Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik: 68 (1987), PL.2C (PART)
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. Unattributed. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Youth in chlamys and petasos, with drawn sword.
CAVI Inscriptions: At left, at shoulder height, a horizontal stoich. three-liner,
left-aligned(1): Ευαιων | καλος | Αισχυλο.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} lines 2 and 3 slope down slightly; line 1 is level.
CAVI Comments: R. Guy told me in 1986 that he thought the lekythos a modern copy of a
fragmentary lekythos at Indiana, which has the same inscription (this lekythos
is also mentioned in GettyMusJ, as Bloomington, Indiana). A forgery? Unclear
whether the sigma is three- or four-stroke.
CAVI Number: 4962
AVI Bibliography: Houghton (1984), 243/62 (ill.). — Add.[2] (1989), 394-95. — Kurtz (1989), 113
n. 1 (listed).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
