207346, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, G440

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Vase Number: 207346
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Shape Name: OINOCHOE
Date: -475 to -425
Inscriptions: Named: OURANIA, KALLIOPE, MELPOMENE
Attributed To: METHYSE P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: MUSES (NAMED ?, KALLIOPE, MELPOMENE, OURANIA), WITH WRITING TABLET, ONE SEATED WITH STYLUS AND WRITING TABLET, ONE PLAYING PIPES
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: G440
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 633.11
Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 364.4
Bispham, E., Harrison, T., and Sparkes, B. (eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome (Edinburgh, 2006): 417, FIG.55.4 (DRAWING OF PART)
Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique: 1895, 102
Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 133
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 272
Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien: 13/14 (2011/2012) 230, FIG.10 (COLOUR OF BD)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.384, MOUSA, MOUSAI 13
Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 286, FIG.2 (BD)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6787
AVI Record Number: 6551
LIMC ID: 18621
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74ab545c32948-4
CAVI Collection: Paris, Louvre G 440.
CAVI Lemma: RF globular oinochoe (chous). Methyse Painter. Third quarter fifth. [[455–440 Lezzi-Hafter (1976), 102]].
CAVI Subject: Three Muses: one looking into open tablets; a chest; another, seated, holding two sticks; at right, a third playing the flutes.
CAVI Inscriptions: Ourania. Kalliope. Melpomene{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Melpomena, L.-H.
CAVI Comments: Pöhlmann says the seated Muse holds a book roll(?) and beats time [with her foot, which is slightly raised]. But what are the two sticks? One is thick, the other thin. They do not look like a book roll. Could it be that the muse marks time with a stylus and a closed book roll? The names are taken from ARV[2]. The vase is cited by L.-H. for comparison with Sozopol 266, q.v. The Methyse Painter was the most important teacher of the Eretria Painter.
CAVI Number: 6551
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 633/11. — Lezzi-Hafter (1976), 102/Me 1, 14 and n. 172, pls. 18 (profile) and 76,c-d [[invis.]]. — Pöhlmann (1976), 59, n. 51, and 73/24 ter. — Add.[2] (1989), 272. — AttScr (1990), no. 665. — Lezzi-Hafter (1997), 356 (mention).
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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