Decoration: A: DEATH OF AIGISTHOS SEATED ON CHAIR, WARRIOR (ORESTES) WOMAN (NAMED, ELECTRA), DRAPED FIGURES WITH SPEARS B: WOMEN, ONE WITH MIRROR, AT LAVER Under handle: PALM TREE
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, private, Herbert Cahn: HC42
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1648.6BIS Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 364 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 222 Knoepfler, D., Les Imagiers de l'Orestie, Mille ans d'art antique autour d'un mythe grec (Zurich, 1993): PL.5 (COLOUR) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 530, FIG.378 (A)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF stamnos. Triptolemos Painter. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Death of Aegisthus: Aegisthus seated on a chair; Orestes; Electra; draped
figures with spears. B: three women at a laver, one with a mirror. Under a
handle: palm tree.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above Aegisthus, to Orestes' right (above his arm): Ορεστες. Aigisthos and
Elektra are also inscribed.
