Inscriptions: Inscription: OPAIDONKALLISTE Transcription: O PAIDON KALLISTE
Decoration: A,B: UNDECORATED I: SYMPOSIUM, MAN WITH KROTALA PLAYING WITH HARE AND SINGING, BASKET SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 1357
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: CC1158
Publication Record: Archontidou, A. et al., Geschenk van de Muzen, Muziek en dans in het oude Griekenland. Μοuson Dora. Μοusikoi kai choreutikoi apoikoi apo tin archaia Εllada (Athens, 2003): 258, NO.133 (COLOUR OF I) Avramidou, A. and Demetriou, D. (eds.), Approaching the Ancient Artifact, Representation, Narrative, and Function. A Festschrift in Honor of H. Alan Shapiro (Berlin and Boston, 2014): 318, FIG.3 (DRAWING OF I) Barringer, J.M., The Hunt in ancient Greece (Baltimore and London, 2001): 77, FIG.36 (I) Baumeister, A. (ed.), Denkmäler des klassischen Altertums, I-II (Munich, 1885-88): III, 1984, FIGS.2126, 2127 (DRAWINGS OF I, A) Blondell, R. and Ormand, K. (eds.), Ancient Sex, New Essays (Columbus, 2015): 78, FIG.1.10 (I) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ATHENS, MUSEE NATIONAL 1, III.I.C.3-III.I.C.4, PL.(025) 3.1.3 View Whole CVA Plates Kaltsas, N. (ed.), Athens-Sparta (New York, 2006): 190, NO.84 (COLOUR OF I) Koch-Harnack, G., Knabenliebe und Tiergeschenke (Berlin, 1893): 88, FIG.22 (I) Lear, A. and Cantarella, E., Images of ancient Greek pederasty, Boys were their gods (London and New York, 2008): 34, FIG.0.6 (I) Lissarrague, F. et al., La Cite des Images, Religion et Societe en Grece Antique (Lausanne, 1984): 125, FIG.176 (I) Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 9 (1884), PL.1 (DRAWINGS OF I, A) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (I, DRAWING OF I) Pace, B., Arte e Civilta delle Sicilia Antica, 1st edition (Milan, 1938-49): 3, 309, FIG.60 (I) Plantzos, D., Greek Art and Archaeology, c. 1100-30 BC (Athens, 2016): 99, FIG.151 (COLOUR OF I) Settis, S. (ed.), I Greci, Storia Cultura Arte Societa 2, Una storia greca, 1.Formazione (Turin, 1996): 821, FIG.35 (I) The Birth of Democracy, An Exhibition celebrating the 2500th Anniversary of Democracy at the National Archives, Washington, D.C. (Athens, 1993): 39, FIG.1.4 (COLOUR OF I) Topper, K., The imagery of the Athenian symposium (Cambridge, 2012): 138, FIG.56 (I) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art, Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 35, FIG.21 (COLOUR OF I) von den Hoff, R. and Schmidt, S. (eds.), Konstruktionen von Wirklichkeit. Bilder im Griechenland des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Stuttgart, 2001): 207, FIG.5 (I)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Tanagra. Unattributed. Ca. 500 (Philippaki).
CAVI Subject: Int.: bearded symposiast reclining and singing, with krotala in his left hand
and stroking a hare with his right; above him, a basket hung up. Ext.: plain.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: from his mouth, curving to left along the margin: ο παιδον καλλιστε,
retr.
CAVI Comments: Ex Athens, Arch. Society 469. Cf. Theognis 1365: Ω παιδων καλλιστε και
ιμεροεστατε παντων ...
CAVI Number: 0778
AVI Bibliography: de Witte (1836), no. 665. — Koehler (1884), 1-4, pl. 1 (dr. of Int. by
Guilleron). — Kretschmer (1894), 86. — Philippaki (1974), fig. 33 (Int.). —
Bérard et al. (1989), 129, fig. 176 (Int., small picture showing inscription
faintly). — Lissarrague (1990a), 132, fig. 102 (sketch of Int. with
inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)