Decoration: Body: MUSES, MNEMOSYNE AND KLIO (NAMED), WITH PIPES
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Publication Record: Berger, C., and Perry, R., Kunst der Klassischen Antike, Ausstellung in Zusammenhang mit der Munzen und Medaillen AG. (Zurich, 1975): NO. 17
CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. Villa Giulia Painter. Second quarter fifth. 475-425 (Bea.
Arch.).
CAVI Subject: Muses: Mnemosyne and Kleo, facing each other; Mnemosyne holds two flutes.
CAVI Inscriptions: Μνεμοσυ[ν]ε. Κλεο.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} see AttScr (1990), 103 n. 23, done from the Emmerich cat. {2} the
Emmerich cat. is clearly an English translation of the cat. made by Berger and
Perry. {3} listed as Basel Market (M.M.).
CAVI Comments: Mnemosyne might be the mother of the muses. Compare, also by the Villa Giulia
Painter, the lekythos Syracuse 20,542: ARV[2] 624/75, Para. (1971), 398, Add.[2]
(1989), 271: Kalliope and Mnemosyne inscribed, AttScr (1990), no. 711.