CAVI Lemma: RF pyxis with lid. Oppenheimer Group (Beazley). Third quarter fifth. Ca. 430
(Böhr).
CAVI Subject: Body: in the center, a woman with a torch (goddess: see below), seated
between two columns; at left, two women running while holding hands, the front
one also holding a wreath; at right, two women bringing gifts (a skyphos and a
necklace repectively); at the farther right, a woman with a taenia and a seated
woman holding out a plemochoe (exaleiptron).
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: to upper left of the left running woman: κ(α)λη. To left of the right
running woman's head: κ(α)λ(η). To left of the torch bearer's head: κ(α)λ^ν{1}.
To right of her head: κ(α)λ(η). To left of the chin of the woman with the
skyphos: κ(α)λν. To left of the back of the woman with a taenia, at
chest-height: κ(α)^λν{1}. To upper left of the seated woman with the plemochoe:
κ(α)(λ)(η).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} a column intervenes. The last letter is clearly a nu.
CAVI Comments: Very sloppy writing. Ionic alphabet. Eta miswritten, sometimes as a reversed
nu. Seven women and seven kale's, but some of the latter are oddly placed. Hampe
and Simon interpreted the woman with the torch as Hestia supporting newly-weds;
so also Sarian. Bérard and Schwenck interpret the scene as in a sanctuary of
Artemis, with the bride (the only figure with unbound hair) bringing her
necklace as a gift. Böhr prefers the identification as Hestia. By the same hand:
the pyxis San Simeon, Hearst, ARV[2] 1224/1 (ph. in Beazley Archive).
CAVI Number: 4918
AVI Bibliography: Grünhagen (1948), 86 Pr. 87. — Hampe–Simon (1959), 28. — ARV[2] (1963),
1224/2. — Bérard (1974), 57 n. 1. — Add.[2] (1989), 350. — Sarian, LIMC v
(1990), 410, Hestia 27, pl. 294. — E. Böhr, CVA Mainz, Universität 2, Germany 63
(1993), pl. 26,1-5, Beilage 12,2; p. 44, facss. of inscriptions (bibl.). —
Oakley–Sinos (1993), 14, figs. 6-8.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
