6557, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, MNB912
- Vase Number: 6557
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
- Sub Technique: SIX
- Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
- Provenance: GREECE
- Date: -525 to -475
- Attributed To: DIOSPHOS P by HASPELS
- Decoration: Body: IRIS WITH KERYKEION AND WRITING TABLET
- Current Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: MNB912
- Publication Record: Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 235.76, PLS.37.3, 38.4 (S, PART OF BD)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.394, ALEXANDROS 92 (A)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.485, IRIS I 16
Lonis, R., Guerre et religion en Grece a l'epoque classique (Paris, 1979): FIG.11 - AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6943
- AVI Record Number: 6702
- LIMC ID: 19914
- LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74bdbe5583070-5
- CAVI Collection: Paris, Louvre MNB 912.
- CAVI Lemma: Lekythos in Six' technique. Diosphos Painter. Early fifth.
- CAVI Subject: Iris running with a kerykeion in her right hand and tablets in the
outstretched left (she is bringing a letter to someone).
- CAVI Inscriptions: To right of her face, diagonally upward, in white on BG: υυυυυ{1}.
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} as five English v's; some disjointed.
- CAVI Comments: Iris may be thought of as speaking while delivering the letter (transmitting
the message both orally and in writing?). The vase is important for questions of
writing and literacy.
- CAVI Number: 6702
- AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Six (1888), ...., no. xvii bis. — Haspels (1936), 97, 106, 111,
235/76, pl. 38,4 (shows inscription).
- 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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