Decoration: Body: WOMEN, ONE WITH BOX, SASH AND OINOCHOE SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 13.201
Publication Record: Annali del Seminario di Studi del Mondo Classico: 10 (1988) FIG.24.2 (PART) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1568 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 997.156 Beazley, J.D., Attic red-figured Vases in American Museums (Cambridge, 1918): 164 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 378.37 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 438 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): 61, NO.3, FIG.263 (PART) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 313 Cohen, B., The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 226, NO.64 (COLOUR OF PART) Fairbanks, A., Athenian Lekythoi (New York, 1914): II, PL.41 Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.31.126 (PART) Kondoleon, C., Grossmann, R.A., et al., MFA Highlights, Classical Art (Boston, 2008): 102 (COLOUR OF PART) Kurtz, D.C. (ed.), Greek Vases, Lectures by J.D. Beazley (Oxford, 1989): PL.17.1 Langlotz, E., Griechische Vasenbilder (Heidelberg, 1922): PL.37 Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): FIGS.1C, 2C, COLOUR PL.3B, PL.111A-B (BD, PROFILE) Panvini, R. and Giudice, F. (eds.), Ta Attika, Attic Figured Vases from Gela (Rome, 2003): 212, FIGS.8-9, 384.L10 (BD, PARTS OF BD) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.538
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Gela. Achilles Painter. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 440
(Beazley). 445-440 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Mistress and Maid: woman to right, with chest; behind her, at top, sash and
oinochoe hung up; woman frontal, head to left.
CAVI Inscriptions: Between the women, below the top margin, horizontal stoich. three-liner, line
2 centered, line 3 roughly [[no: quite precisely]] left-aligned: Ἀξιοπειθης
καλος Ἀλκιμαχο. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CAVI Comments: The first letter of line 3, as well as some of the others, are slightly
shifted to right in the stoichoi. I.e., the tabella is somewhat irregular. Ionic
alphabet.
CAVI Number: 2785
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), i, no. 52, pls. 24 and 26 (photos). — ARV[2] (1963), 997/156. —
Para. (1971), 438. — Add.[2] (1989), 313 (bibl.). — Boardman (1989), 61 center
(part [[head of the woman facing left, no inscr.]]) and fig. 263 [[quite cl.]].
— AttScr (1990), no. 686, fig. 126. — Kurtz (1990), fig. 24,2. — Oakley (1997),
142f./210, figs. 1C and 2C (profile), color pl. 3B (shows inscription, and pl.
111A-B (shows inscription) (bibl.) [[cl.]].
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)