Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 471.117 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 118 Grabow, E., Schlangenbilder in der griechischen schwarzfigurigen Vasenkunst (Paderborn, 1998): PL.6.K24 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.194, MEDEIA 3 (PART) Rodriguez Perez, D., Serpientes, dioses y heroes. El combate contra el monstruo en el arte y la literatura griega antigua (Leon, 2008): 153, FIG.83 (BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. Cock Group (Beazley); close to Phanyllis Painter (Haspels). Late
sixth.
CAVI Subject: Female bust between rearing snakes.
CAVI Inscriptions: Above, in large letters: Μεδεια.
CAVI Comments: Haspels 68: "The London vase bears in black the inscription ΜΕΔΕΙΑ, which
Beazley suspected to be modern (JHS 54, p. 91)." Haspels discusses the unusual
ornaments on this vase and continues: "Mr. Pryce had the vase chemically tested,
and all three features - inscriptions, tongues, rosettes -proved to be genuine,
although the inscription had been touched up." Haspels considers the lekythos
Attic and not, as Beazley had thought (ibidem), a Boeotian imitation.
