CAVI Lemma: RF plate. From Tarquinia. Unattributed (see below). Last quarter sixth.
510-500.
CAVI Subject: Nereid running. Four dolphins.
CAVI Inscriptions: To left of her upper body, Gr.: Θετες.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} not 00.325.
CAVI Comments: Attributed by Hoppin to Euthymides; denied by Beazley in JHS; attributed to
the later Menon Painter [Psiax] in VA (1918) but not included in AV or ARV[1];
in ARV[2] 29, Beazley says "possibly his [Euthymides'], but an early work?",
while on p. 1621 he retracts: "it would have been wiser to keep this at a
distance from Euthymides, as I have always done hitherto." - When I saw the vase
in 1946, I was strongly of the opinion that the inscription was modern, because
of the fine incision, the roughness and the flaking off of the glaze. Beazley in
CB says: "apparently incised after the firing." I further noted that Vienna,
Oest. Mus. 221 ( = Kunsthist. Mus. 3613, ABV 106), a BF hydria related to the
Tyrrhenian Group with Perseus pursued by a Gorgon on the shoulder, has the same
inscription for a woman bystander (Dip.), but I now think that this is probably
a coincidence and in AttScr I give parallels for other finely incised graffiti
which were no doubt done before firing. Still, the Nereid is not Thetis, and an
error has to be assumed. Attic alphabet with cartwheel theta.
