6557, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, MNB912

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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
Last Recorded 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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