Attributed To: GALES P by BEAZLEY GALES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: Body: SACRIFICE, WOMAN WITH BASKET, YOUTHS LEADING COWS, IONIC COLUMN
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 13.195
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 99 (1995) 642, FIG.1 (DRAWING OF BD) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 35.1, 1621 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 30.1 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.211 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 76 Buschor, E., Grab eines attischen Mädchens, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1941): 24 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 158 Caskey, L. and Beazley, J.D., Attic Vase Paintings in The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1931-63): PL.4 Connelly, J.B., Portrait of a Priestess, Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton and Oxford, 2007): 37, FIG.2.5 (DRAWING OF BD) Escacena Carrasco, J.L., and Ferrer Albelda, E. (eds.), Entre Dios y hombres, el sacerdocio en la antiguedad (Seville, 2006): 178, FIG.8 (DRAWING OF BD) Evans, N., Civic rites, democracy and religion in ancient Athens (Berkeley, 2010): 55, FIG.5 (DRAWING) Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 692, FIG.27 (BD) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 69 Herrmann, J. and Kondoleon, C., (eds.), Games for the Gods, The Greek Athlete and the Olympic Spirit (Boston, 2004): 46, NO.19 (COLOUR OF BD) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): I, 463 Hornblower, S. and Spawforth, A. (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Oxford, 1998): 778 (DRAWING OF PART OF BD) Hornblower, S. and Spawforth, A. (eds.), The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, Second Edition (Oxford, 2014): 848 (DRAWING OF PART OF BD) Jacobsthal, P., Ornamente Griechischer Vasen (Berlin, 1927): PL.54A (BACK) Journal of Hellenic Studies: 95 (1975) PL.15A Kurtz, D., Athenian White Lekythoi (Oxford, 1975): PL.6.1 Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.14.1 (DRAWING OF BD) Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 158, FIG.21 (DRAWING OF BD) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 117, FIG.6.4 (BD) Panvini, R. and Giudice, F. (eds.), Ta Attika, Attic Figured Vases from Gela (Rome, 2003): 274.E2 (BD) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 131, FIG.135 (PART) Senri Ethnological Studies: 27 (1990), 156, PL.3 Sparkes, B.A., Greek Art, Second Edition (Cambridge, 2011): 137, FIG.45 (DRAWING OF BD) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: I, PL.6.126 (BD) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: V, PL.64.1557 (PART OF BD) van Straten, F.T., Hiera Kala, Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece (Leiden, 1995): FIG.17 (DRAWING)
CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. From Gela. Gales Painter. Gales, potter. Last quarter sixth.
520-510{1}.
CAVI Subject: Two cows led to sacrifice by two youths preceded by a kanephoros; at right,
an Ionic column.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the reserved topside of mouth, in a circle complete except for a
single-space vacat: Γαλες εποιεσεν v.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} not later than 510 (CB).
CAVI Comments: Large and beautiful letters; similar is the same signature on the oinochoe
Syracuse 26,967, ARV[2] 36/2. For other inscriptions on mouths see CVA, Oxford
1, 43, on pl. 49,15.
CAVI Number: 2784
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), i, no. 14, pl. 4. — ARV[2] (1963), 35/1 (bibl.), 1621. —
Add.[2] (1989), 158. — Robertson (1992), 131, fig. 135.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
