Decoration: A: DRAPED YOUTHS PLAYING PIPES ON PLATFORM, NIKAI, ONE WITH PHIALAI, ONE WITH SASH B: WOMAN BETWEEN DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH STAFF, BAG SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1910.6-15.1
CAVI Lemma: RF PELIKE. PAINTER OF ATHENS 1163 (LATEST MANNERISTS). LAST QUARTER FIFTH.
CA. 430 (SHAPIRO).
CAVI Subject: A: TWO FLAUTISTS, ONE ON A BASE, THE OTHER ON ITS STEPS; AT LEFT, NIKE
FLYING, WITH THREE PHIALAE; AT RIGHT, NIKE FLYING, WITH A TAENIA. B: TWO YOUTHS
AND A BOY.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: ABOVE THE LEFT FLAUTIST, NEAR THE LEFT NIKE: καλος. [PROBABLY ABOVE THE
RIGHT NIKE:] καλη.
CAVI Comments: ATTIC ALPHABET EXCEPT FOR THE ETA. THE KALOS IS CLEAR IN THE PHOTO, BUT THE
KALE IS ONLY IN WALTERS' TEXT. FOR THE SUBJECT, WALTERS, WHO CALLS IT A CONTEST,
COMPARES LONDON B 188 AND LOUVRE G 103. MIXED ALPHABET.
CAVI Number: 4721
AVI Bibliography: WALTERS (1921), 138/4, PL. 7 V 4. — ARV[2] (1963), 1123/2. — SHAPIRO (1992),
200 N. 55.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)