Decoration: Body: EROS FLYING TO ALTAR WITH PHIALE
Last Recorded Collection: Durham (N.C.), Duke University, Museum of Art: 1966.6
Previous Collections:
Philadelphia (PA), market
London, market, Sotheby's
Publication Record: A Generation of Antiquities, The Duke Classical Collection 1964-1994, Duke Univ. Museum of Art 20.1-26.3. 1995 (Durham, 1994): PL.22.58 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1665.126BIS
CAVI Collection: DURHAM, NC, DUKE UNIVERSITY 1966.6.
CAVI Lemma: RF LEKYTHOS. BOWDOIN PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 470 (STANLEY).
CAVI Subject: A FLYING EROS POURING A LIBATION ON AN ALTAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: AROUND THE UPPER PART OF THE FIGURE, STARTING ABOVE THE RIGHT WING: [κ]αλος.
CAVI Comments: S. REFERS THE INSCRIPTION TO THE EROS. - MOST INSCRIPTIONS ON VASES BY THE
BOWDOIN PAINTER ARE NONSENSE, FREQUENTLY INVOLVING SIGMAS. BUT LONDON
1906.12-15.5 HAS κα[λο]ς, AND OXFORD 265, WG, SEEMS TO HAVE Nι[κε]. BOTH ALSO
HAVE NONSENSE.
CAVI Number: 3399
AVI Bibliography: NNN (19....), HESPAB 16,7: NO. 100. — ARV[2] (1963), 1665/126 BIS. — STANLEY
(1994), 47/58, PL. 22.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
