Decoration: Body: DOMESTIC, WOMEN, ONE SEATED ON CHAIR PLAYING KITHARA, ONE WITH LYRE, SASH, MIRROR AND OINOCHOE SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 266
Previous Collections:
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 1889.1016
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: V266
Publication Record: BEAZLEY NOTEBOOK: 127, 27.4 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1000.195 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1563 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 377.9 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 313 Gardner, P., Museum Oxoniense, Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1893): PL.20 Klein, W., Die griechischen Vasen mit Lieblingsinschriften (Leipzig, 1898): 163 Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 158, FIG.5 Oakley, J., Picturing Death in Classical Athens, The Evidence of the White Lekythoi (Cambridge, 2004): 52, FIG.26-27 (BD) Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 118, FIG.8, PL.13B (BD, COLOUR OF BD) Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): PL.137C-D (BD) Panvini, R. and Giudice, F. (eds.), Ta Attika, Attic Figured Vases from Gela (Rome, 2003): 385.L12 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: WG LEKYTHOS. FROM GELA. ACHILLES PAINTER. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH. 445-440
(OAKLEY).
CAVI Subject: "MISTRESS AND MAID": A WOMAN SEATED TO RIGHT ON A CHAIR, WITH HER LYRE; ABOVE
HER, AT THE TOP, A MIRROR HUNG UP; WOMAN TO LEFT, HOLDING A LYRE; ABOVE AND TO
RIGHT OF HER HEAD, AT THE TOP, AN OINOCHOE HUNG UP.
CAVI Inscriptions: BETWEEN THE WOMEN (CLOSER TO THAT ON THE LEFT), BELOW THE TOP MARGIN,
HORIZONTAL STOICH. THREE-LINER, THE SECOND LINE CENTERED: Αλκιμ[η]δης | καλος |
Αισχυλιδο. ...../... ..... .........{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} IONIC. ALPHA 2 AND NEAR. DELTA 2. ETA S 1. KAPPA 1 AND 4. LAMBDA 4, ONCE
WITH SECOND BAR A BIT SHORTER. MU 4 NOT VERY TALL. OMICRON 1, ONCE WITH POINTED
TOP. SIGMA 4 FLATTISH, AND TWICE (ALWAYS FINAL) NEAR S 11. UPSILON S 6. CHI NEAR
2.
CAVI Comments: = 1889.1016. - SHOULDER, NECK AND MOUTH ALIEN. FOR THE ACHILLES PAINTER'S
`LUNATE' SIGMAS SEE ATTSCR (1990), 110 N. 5. IONIC ALPHABET. SIGMA TWICE OF
SHAPE TYPICAL FOR ACHILLES PAINTER.
CAVI Number: 5884
AVI Bibliography: GARDNER (1897), PL. 20,1 AND P. 21. — KLEIN (1898), 162, FIG. 42. — FAIRBANKS
(1907), GROUP C, CLASS 5/33 (NOT ILL.). — BEAZLEY (1914), 221/8 (NOT ILL.). —
BUSCHOR (1941), 62-63 (CLEANED). — ARV[2] (1963), 1000/195. — BECK (1975), PL.
83/402. — ADD.[2] (1989), 313. — MAAS–SNYDER (1989), 158, FIG. 5. — OAKLEY
(1997), 149/264, PL. 137C-D (SHOW INSCRIPTIONS).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
