Decoration: A: MEN, ONE DANCING, STOOL I: EROTIC, MEN
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P7690
Previous Collections:
Athens, Agora Museum: P8890
Publication Record: Cohen, B., The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 49, FIG.7 (COLOUR OF I) Kilmer, M.F., Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases (London, 1993): PL. AT P.147, R1123 (A,B) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (I, A) The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 30, PL.131.1410
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF cup (kylix) From Athens, Agora E-F 6. Unattributed. Last quarter
sixth. Ca. 500 or a little earlier (Beazley). Ca. 500 (Moore).
CAVI Subject: Int.: legs and ends of himatia of a male couple standing and making love;
around the scene: coral red. Ext.: palaestra.
CAVI Inscriptions: Incised after firing (Moore), Grr.: on the left, downward and ending at the
feet: [--]α. On the right, downward, somewhat higher up: [φιλ]οτεσιον.
CAVI Comments: + Agora P 8890. [Large and irregular letters, probably written by the user,
not the potter.] Attic alphabet. The alpha omitted in the text of Lang (1976).
The second inscription is not certainly complete fore; see Beazley's remarks.
For the word, see Lang, who cites Ar., Lysistr. 203. For subject of the Int.,
cf. also Shapiro, AJA 85, 1981, 133-143. Moore does not explain what P 8890 is;
it must join. The restoration is Beazley's.
CAVI Number: 0384
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Beazley (1947), 222/γ 16. — Richter (1951), pl. 16,c. — Lang (1976),
C 6, pl. 4 (dr.). — AttScr (1990), no. 484. — Moore (1997), 319/1410, pl. 131
(Int., A) (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
