Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1669 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 763.1 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 772 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 317.1 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 415 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.102 (I) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 140 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 286 Carroll-Spillecke, M., Kipos, der antike griechische Garten, Wohnen in der klassischen Polis III (Munich, 1989): 47, FIG.20 (DRAWING OF I) Cohen, B., The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 299-301, NO.90 (COLOUR OF I AND A) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): II, 430 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.229, MELISSA 1 (I) Lissarrague, F. et al. (eds.), Ceramique et peinture Grecques, Modes d'emploi, Actes du colloque internat., Ecole du Louvre, April 1995 (Paris, 1999): 479, FIGS.7A-B (A, B) Murray, A.S. and Smith, A.H., White Athenian Vases in the British Museum (London, 1896): PL.17 Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.527 Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 188, FIG.198 (I) Schierup, S. & Rasmussen, B.B. (eds.), Red-figure Pottery in its Ancient Setting, Gosta Enbom Monographs 2 (Copenhagen, 2012): 46, FIG.3 (COLOUR OF I) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: VIII, PL.49, CAT.108 (I) Woodford, S., An Introduction to Greek Art. Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Archaic and Classical Periods. 2nd edition (London, 2015): 107, FIG.152 (COLOUR OF I)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary WG cup. From Athens. Sotades Painter. Sotades, potter. Second
quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Nymphs(?): at left, remains of a girl, shorter than the other, or seated(?);
at right, a girl gathers apples from a tree. Ext.: coral red.
CAVI Inscriptions: At right, a woman picking apples; three letters of her name survive: alpha or
Attic gamma, rho and omicron{1}. At left was a crouching woman (perhaps picking
apples from the ground), mostly lost: Μελισ[σ]α̣{2}. Between border and lip, a
two-liner: [Σοτ]αδες | εποιεσεν{3}. For the inscriptions see Beazley in Gnomon
and Daux.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} I.e., [--]αρο or [--]γρο? But it need not be the end of the name. C.
Smith has λδο. {2} so Burn; C. Smith has Μελισι. {3} two-liner, Smith; ARV[2]
gives as a one-liner. If a two-liner, is it non-stoich.? It is written in the
zone below the tondo in two horizontal lines, cf. Hoppin (1919), ii, 430.
CAVI Comments: For the `set' of Sotades vases, cf. entry D 5. Burn gives 3 possible
interpretations: 1. women in an orchard. 2. The Garden of the Hesperides (with
funerary connotations). But there is no snake and the apples are not golden. 3.
Melissa and companions as honey nymphs (note: a Melissa discovered honey; a
Melissa fed honey to the infant Zeus; Melissai were the daughters of the
honey-king of Paros (see Roscher). D 5, D 6 and D 7 (the last not inscribed) are
all concerned with honey, which has a connection with death and afterlife: the
whole group was made for funerary use (see Burn 104-105; D 7 is interpreted by
B. as Aristaios, the snake and Eurydice, cf. Virgil, Georgics 4.457-59; this cup
is the only one not part of a pair; Burn thinks its mate is lost.) Robertson
says the woman at left (Melissa) was probably crouching, to pick up fallen
apples. He thinks the subject was funerary; he mentions the Hesperidae and other
interpretations, but says one cannot be sure. Apple picking in a funerary
context: see Burn 94, with notes 8 and 9.
CAVI Number: 4398
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 391-92. — Beazley (1937), 292. — Daux (1945),
147-48. — ARV[2] (1963), 763/1, 772, 1669. — Para. (1971), 415. — Burn (1985),
94ff., pls. 23,2, and 27,3-4. — Add.[2] (1989), 285 (bibl.). — Boardman (1989),
fig. 102. — Hoffmann (1989a), 70-74, fig. 1. — Cohen (1991), 94 n. 182. —
Robertson (1992), 188, fig. 198 (part). — Hoffmann (1997), 119 n. 7 (former
interpretations), 127-33, figs. 71-73 (fig. 71 is a dr. by Lissarrague showing
inscriptions; 72 is ph. of Int.; 73 is detail of same showing the signature
well).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
