213978, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 13.201

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Vase Number: 213978
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
Provenance: ITALY, SICILY, GELA
Date: -475 to -425
Inscriptions: ALKIMACHOS
AXIOPEITHES
Kalos/Kale: AXIOPEITHES KALOS ALKIMACHO
Attributed To: ACHILLES P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: WOMEN, ONE WITH BOX, SASH AND OINOCHOE SUSPENDED
Current 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
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2933
AVI Record Number: 2785
CAVI Collection: Boston 13.201.
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)

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