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

  • 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
  • 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. (ed.), 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)
  • Pleiades URI: HTTPS://PLEIADES.STOA.ORG/PLACES/462214
  • Coordinates: 37.07117,14.248967
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 37.0630925,14.2584705
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