Decoration: Body: DOMESTIC, WOMEN, ONE SEATED ON CHAIR WITH WREATH, ONE WITH FLAT BASKET WITH FILLETS, MIRROR, OINOCHOE AND SASH SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Philadelphia (PA), University of Pennsylvania: 5463
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 996.143 Neer, R.T., Art and Archaeology of the Greek World, a new history, c.2500-c.150 BC (London, 2012): 301, FIG.12.7 (COLOUR OF BD) Oakley, J.H., The Achilles Painter (Mainz, 1997): PL.104A-B (BD) The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania: 8 (1917) 18-19, FIGS.3-4 (BD)
CAVI Collection: Philadelphia, University Museum 5463.
CAVI Lemma: WG lekythos. From Athens. Achilles Painter. Second quarter fifth. 460-450.
Early. 450-445 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Mistress and Maid: woman seated to right and holding a wreath; above and
behind her, at the top, a sash hung up; above her, at the top, a mirror hung up;
a woman, frontal, head to left, with offering tray with fillets; above and
behind her, at the top, an oinochoe hung up.
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of the mirror, at the top, horizontal, stoich. left-aligned
two-liner: Διφιλος | καλος. . . . . . . . . . . . {1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the last two letters a bit misplaced.
CAVI Comments: The standing woman is here a servant (see Oakley). Ionic alphabet. Sigmas
typical of Achilles Painter.
CAVI Number: 6810
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 996/143. — Oakley (1997), 62, 140/194, pl. 104A-B (both show
inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
