Decoration: Body: FUNERARY, PROTHESIS, WOMEN, SOME MOURNING, CHILD, VALEDICTION, DRAPED MEN, SOME OLD, COLUMN
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Ceramicus: 691
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 95 (1991), 636-637, FIGS.7-9 Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1935, 297-298, FIG.24 Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 678 Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: 45 (2001) 125, PLS.9A-B (PARTS) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 148 Fantham, E. et al., Women in the Classical World, Image and Text (New York, 1994): 50, FIG.1.15 (PART) Haland, E. J., Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece. Writing History from a Female Perspective (Cambridge, 2014): 215, FIG.23 (PART OF BD) Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PLS.23.98, 24.99A-B Kaltsas, N. and Shapiro, A., Worshiping Women, Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens (Athens and New York, 2008): 336-337, FIG.3A-C (COLOUR OF BD) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 873, NO.1071 (PART) Kunze-Götte, E., Tancke, K. and Vierneisel, K., Kerameikos VII.2, Die Nekropole von der Mitte des 6. bis zum Ende des 5. Jahrhunderts (Munich, 1999): PL.77 (BD) Kurtz, D. & Boardman, J., Greek Burial Customs (London, 1971): FIG.11 (PART) Kurtz, D.C. and Boardman, J., Thanatos, Tod und Jenseits bei den Griechen (Mainz, 1985): 89, FIG.17 (PART) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 111, FIG.84 (PART) Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.52 (BD) Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 130, FIG.21 (PARTS) Rasmussen, B. B. (ed.), The Past in the Present (Copenhagen, 2015): 130, FIG.6 (PARTS OF BD) Rasmussen, B. B., Fortiden i nutiden (Copenhagen, 2015): 130, FIG.6
CAVI Lemma: BF PHORMISKOS. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. LAST QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 510
(LULLIES).
CAVI Subject: PROTHESIS.
CAVI Inscriptions: οιμοι, ο θυγα[τερ]. οιμ[ο]ι, εγ[ο]. Μυρ[ρ]ινε. Μυρτε, RETR. [--]ιτε. AT LEFT,
HORIZONTAL: --]ετ[.](.) VAC. TO RIGHT OF ANOTHER WOMAN, DOWN: γο[---{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} MOMMSEN READS Μυρινε, Μυρτε, οιμοι ο θυγα[τερ], BUT DIFFERENTLY: ΟΙΜΙΕΚ
[SIC]. SHE SAYS THE OTHER INSCRIPTIONS ARE NOW TOO FRAGMENTARY TO BE READ.
CAVI Comments: PARALLELS: SEE LOUVRE MNB 905 AND LAUSANNE, GILLET (CF. KURTZ AND BOARDMAN
AND ATTSCR). - MOMMSEN: A CLAY PHORMISKOS IS A FUNERARY IMITATION OF AN
`ASTRAGALBEUTEL,' MADE, IN ATTICA, ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN'S FUNERALS SINCE THE SIX
ATTIC PHORMISKOI WITH PROTHESIS SCENES ARE ALL FOR WOMEN (SEE NN. 192 AND 193);
CF. ALSO P. 22.
CAVI Number: 1748
AVI Bibliography: KüBLER (1935), 298, FIG. 24. — LULLIES (1946–7), 65/44, PL. 13. — ABV (1956),
678. — KURTZ–BOARDMAN (1971), 77, PL. 11 (PHOT.). — TOUCHEFEU-MEYNIER (1972),
FIG. 4 (PART). — SCHEIBLER (1973), 7, FIG. 5. — BRIJDER (1984), 322, FIG. 5
(PART). — ADD.[2] (1989), 148. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 436, FIGS. 98-99A,B
(PHOTOS). — SHAPIRO (1991), 636-37, FIGS. 7-9; N. 43 (FIG. 8: NEW RESTORATION
WITH AN ADDED FR.) (BIBL.). — H. MOMMSEN (1997A), 23 AND N. 191.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
