214046, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 13.202
- Vase Number: 214046
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: RED-FIGURE
- Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
- Provenance: ITALY, SICILY (?)
- Date: -475 to -425
- Inscriptions: ALKIMACHOS
EPICHAROS
Kalos/Kale: ALMACHOS KALOS EPICHAROS - Attributed To: Manner of ACHILLES P by BEAZLEY
- Decoration: Body: DEATH OF ORPHEUS WITH LYRE AND TATTOOED THRACIAN WOMAN IN BOOTS WITH SWORD
- Current Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 13.202
- Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1002.11
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1561
Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 153
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 313
Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 112, FIG.29 (DRAWING) - AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2934
- AVI Record Number: 2786
- LIMC ID: 9545
- LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-742acdb368d32-4
- CAVI Collection: Boston 13.202.
- CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. From Sicily? Manner of Achilles Painter{1}. Second quarter
fifth. 460-450. 450 (Oakley).
- CAVI Subject: Death of Orpheus: a Thracian woman killing him with her sword.
- CAVI Inscriptions: To right of her face: Αλκιμαχος | καλος | Επιχαρο̅ς.
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} close to his early work (Beazley).
- CAVI Comments: On p. 11 n. 3, Oakley says that the inscription is spaced in a manner similar
to the same inscription on Geneva, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire (loan), his no.
114, but he does not print it in this way. He prints: Αλκιμαχος Επιχαρος καλος,
with the first two sigmas of shape `C', the third = Σ. Ionic alphabet with
simplified sigmas.
- CAVI Number: 2786
- AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), i, no. 49, pls. 22 and 26. — ARV[2] (1963), 1002/11. — Add.[2]
(1989), 313. — Maas–Snyder (1989), 112, fig. 29. — Oakley (1997), *11 n. 3,
155/N 5 (not ill.).
- 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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