Decoration: AB1: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SIRENS, PANTHERS, ROSETTES AB2: ANIMAL FRIEZE, LIONS, SIRENS AND PANTHERS, ROSETTES Under handle: INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Nantes, Musee Dobree: 974.2.41
Publication Record: Bourgeois, B. et al., Vases en voyage de la Grece a l'Etrurie (Paris, 2004): 64, NO.20 (COLOUR OF PARTS) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NANTES, MUSEE DOBREE, 24-25, FIG.1, PL.(1579) 7.1-8 View Whole CVA Plates
CAVI Lemma: BF lekane. Unattributed{1}. Second quarter sixth (CVA).
CAVI Subject: A, B, each: animal friezes.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under one handle, Dip. in black: Μανολακος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} cf. Polos Painter (CVA).
CAVI Comments: From the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, given 1974. CVA wonders whether the
inscription is a 19th century dealer's name or an attempt to forge an ancient
signature. [But the `lambda' and `sigma' show that the writing is not Greek. The
letters are: `Alpha' 2 with curved top. `Lambda' S 1(!). `Mu' 5. `Nu' 7. `Sigma'
S 2 (see the chart in AttScr). The inscription is modern.]
CAVI Number: 5408b
AVI Bibliography: D. Frère, CVA Nantes, France 36 (1997), pl. 7,1-8, figs. 1 (profile) and 2
(facs. of inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
