213958, ATHENIAN, Stockholm, National Museum, Stockholm, National Museum, 2107

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Vase Number: 213958
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
Date: -475 to -425
Inscriptions: DIPHILOS
Kalos/Kale: DIPHILOS KALOS MELANOPO
MELANOPON
Attributed To: ACHILLES P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: DOMESTIC, WOMEN, ONE SEATED ON CHAIR PLAYING KITHARA, ONE WITH SASH, OINOCHOAI AND SASHES SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Stockholm, National Museum: NMA2107
Previous Collections:
- Stockholm, National Museum: 2107
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1575
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 996.135
Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 100, FIG.60 (BD)
Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.31.127 (PART)
Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): COLOUR PL.1A-B
Opuscula Romana, Edidit Institutum Romanum Regni Sueciae: 19 (1993), 59, FIG.3 (PART)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7768
AVI Record Number: 7499
CAVI Collection: Stockholm, N.M. Ant. G. 2107.
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. Achilles Painter. Ca. 450. 460/55-450 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: "Mistress and Maid": woman seated in a chair to right, playing the lyre; above and behind her, at the top, a sash; above her head, at the top, an oinochoe hung up; woman to left holding a sash; behind her and at the top, a sash and oinochoe hung up.
CAVI Inscriptions: Between the figures, below the top margin, horizontaal stoich. left-aligned three-liner: Διφιλος | καλος | Μελανοπ|ο. ....... ..... ......:{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the final omicron of the father's name is in the stoichos vertically; but it is not quite in line horizontally with line 2 but is slightly below that line.
CAVI Comments: Listed as G. 2107 in ARV[2]. The final letter written above the line to square the tabella. Ionic alphabet with omicron for omega. Ionic lambda, once with the second leg shorter and once resembling lambda S 6 (see chart in AttScr). Sigmas typical of Achilles Painter. Phi with extended vertical.
CAVI Number: 7499
AVI Bibliography: Antonsson (1958), 1105. — ARV[2] (1963), 996/135. — AttScr (1990), no. 687, fig. 127. — Oakley (1997), 139/185, color pl. 1A-B (both show the inscription distorted).
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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