Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 98.922
Publication Record: Caskey, L.D., Geometry of Greek Vases (Boston, 1922): 211, NO.165 (PROFILE) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 230.2, PL.40.4A-B Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 43 (1974), PL.9OB (PART) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 141, FIG.10 (BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. Companion of Sappho Painter and Diosphos Painter (Haspels).
Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Goddess mounting a chariot, with Hermes.
CAVI Inscriptions: To left of the goddess' head and back: hο παις, retr.{1}. To right of her
face: (κ)αλος. Around the fronts of the horses: εμοι δοκει. I.e.: hο παις καλος
εμοι δοκει.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} alpha and sigma are not retr.
CAVI Comments: Haspels attributes to the same hand as New York 08.258.30 and Lost (Once
Gallatin) [i.e. the Kephisophon Painter], but Beazley does not mention it. The
kappa has an extra line: is it written over another letter, i.e. a correction?
CAVI Number: 2668
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 117, 230/2 (inscription), pl. 40,4a-b (both show
inscriptions).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)