Decoration: A: WOMAN (KLYTAIMESTRA, NAMED), OLD MAN WITH SCEPTRE (TYNDAREUS, NAMED) AND LEDA (NAMED) AT ALTAR WITH EGG AND EAGLE B: WOMEN, SOME NAMED I: MAN IN PETASOS, CHLAMYS AND BOOTS WITH SPEARS SEATED ON STOOL (PERITHOOS, NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1899.539
CAVI Subject: INT.: PERITHOOS SEATED, IN TRAVELING COSTUME (IN HADES, BEAZLEY). EXT.: LEDA
AND THE EGG: A: WOMAN (KLYTAEMNESTRA); WHITE-HAIRED MAN, WREATHED AND WITH A
SCEPTER, AT THE ALTAR (TYNDAREUS); ALTAR, ON WHICH IS THE EGG AND AN EAGLE
FACING IT; WOMAN, EXCITED, LOOKING BACK. B: THREE WOMEN, THAT IN THE CENTER
STANDING WITH A FOOT ON A ROCK AND WITH ONE ELBOW RESTING ON HER KNEE,
GESTICULATING.
CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: TO HIS RIGHT, AT CHEST-HEIGHT: Περιθος{1}. A: ABOVE THE HEAD OF THE
WOMAN AT LEFT: Κλυταιμεστρα. TO RIGHT OF TYNDAREUS, AT HEAD HEIGHT, ABOVE THE
ALTAR: Τευδαρεως{2}. Λεδα. B: Κλεο[πα]τρα. TO RIGHT OF THE CENTRAL WOMAN'S BACK
OF HEAD: Φυλονοε{3}. Ξενοτιμος | εποιεσεν, STOICH. (THE SIG. IS IN WHITE, CB.)
CAVI Footnotes: {1} BEAZLEY IN CB SAYS THAT THE EPSILON IS MORE LIKELY SHORT THAN LONG, CF.
THE ATTIC DEME Περιθοιδαι. THREATTE (1980), P. 240 ALSO READS Περιθους; CF. II
33. {2} THREATTE (1996), 40 HAS THE READING Τεν̣δαρεως. {3} APOLLODORUS 3.10,6
MENTIONS HER AS A DAUGHTER OF LEDA. SHE CONVERSES WITH KLEOPATRA ON HER LEFT;
THE WOMAN AT RIGHT LOOKS TO RIGHT, I.E. AT THE EGG ON A; SHE IS NOT NAMED.
BEAZLEY IS PUZZLED BY KLEOPATRA APPEARING AMONG THE DAUGHTERS OF TYNDAREUS; SEE
CB, P. 71 N. 4; ON BERLIN 2291 SHE IS TIMANDRA (SO BEAZLEY HERE).
CAVI Comments: THE EGG WAS LAID BY NEMESIS AND GIVEN TO LEDA TO HATCH; SEE ROBERTSON. MIXED
ALPHABET. ALPHA MAINLY WITH HORIZONTAL CROSS STROKE. THETA LACKS THE DOT. IONIC
LAMBDA AND SIGMA.
CAVI Number: 2683
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), III, 69/163, PL. 99 (PHS. OF ALL; EARLY BIBL.). — ARV[2]
(1963), 1142/1. — PARA. (1971), 455. — ADD.[2] (1989), 334. — BOARDMAN (1989),
FIG. 214, ABOVE (GOOD PICTURE OF INT.). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 1118. — ROBERTSON
(1992), 227. — THREATTE (1996), 40, 724, AND 742.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
