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303372, ATHENIAN, Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi, 18418

  • Vase Number: 303372
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
  • Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
  • Provenance: ITALY, SICILY, CAMARINA
  • Date: -525 TO -475
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: NAIXI
    Inscription: PIIDES
    Kalos/Kale: KALOS
    Named: PELIADES (?)
  • Attributed To: EDINBURGH P by HASPELS
  • Decoration: Body: ACHILLES (WITH SPEARS, NAMED) BROUGHT TO CHIRON, WITH CLUB AND TREE WITH HARE, MAN IN CHITONISKOS AND CHLAMYS WITH SPEARS (HERMES OR PELEUS ?), THETIS, INSCRIPTIONS (NONSENSE ?)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi: 18418
  • Publication Record: Adam-Velene, P., and Tzanavare, K. (eds.), Dineessa, Timetikos tomos gia ten Katerina Rhomiopoulou (Thessaloniki, 2012): 237, SCH.2 (DRAWING OF BD)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 476
    Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 217.38
    Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.11.4 (DRAWING OF BD)
    Maurina, B., and Sorge, E. (eds.), Orsi, Halbherr, Gerola, L'archeologia italiana nel Mediterraneo (Rovereto, 2010): 67, NO.I.46 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=7817
  • AVI Record Number: 7543
  • LIMC ID: 349
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-73A89E7DB53D8-0
  • CAVI Collection: SYRACUSE 18,418.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. EDINBURGH PAINTER. CA. 500.
  • CAVI Subject: THE CHILD ACHILLES BROUGHT TO CHIRON BY HIS FATHER.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: BENNDORF SAW TRACES OF AN INSCRIPTION BESIDE THE HEAD OF A FEMALE AT LEFT AND CONNECTED THEM WITH καλος ναιχι. BEAZLEY DID NOT SEE THESE TRACES AND READ:καλος. Πε[λε]ιδες = ACHILLES AND ναιχι{1}. HENCE PELEUS AND CHIRON ARE NOT INSCRIBED.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} AFTER BEAZLEY IN AJA.
  • CAVI Comments: MISWRITTEN BY AN ILLITERATE? - I DO NOT KNOW THE PERTINENCE OF καλος AND (TWICE) ναιχι TO THE FIGURES.
  • CAVI Number: 7543
  • AVI Bibliography: BENNDORF (1868–83), PL. 41,1. — HASPELS (1936), 88 N. 5 (INSCR. MENTIONED), 217/38 (NOT ILL.). — FRIIS JOHANSEN (1939), 195. — BEAZLEY (1950), 316 (NOT ILL.). — ABV (1956), 476, MIDDLE (MENTION). — ADD.[2] (1989), 120.
  • 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/462126
  • Coordinates: 36.826119,14.522724
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 36.8602887,14.469420375

Last updated 15/12/2025 06:47:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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