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203141, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1856,0512.9

  • Vase Number: 203141
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: ALABASTRON
  • Date: -500 to -450
  • Inscriptions: APHRODISIA
    EROSANTHE
    Kalos/Kale: EROSANTHEOKALE
  • Attributed To: Compare WÜRZBURG 517, P OF by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: WOMAN, WITH FLOWER, STOOL
    B: WOMAN (ATTENDANT) WITH ALABASTRON
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E718
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 306
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.27.115 (OR)
    Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 176, FIG.131 (A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4814
  • AVI Record Number: 4642
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1856-0512-9
  • CAVI Collection: London E 718.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF alabastron. Unattributed{1}. Early fifth.
  • CAVI Subject: A: woman. B: maid.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: at right: Αφροδισια καλε. At left: το̅̀ς δοκει Ευχιροι. B: at right: Εροσανθε ο̃ καλε. At left: hο παις καλος. On the mouth, in BG: Αφροδισια καλε.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} compared by Beazley to the Painter of Würzburg 517 who is connected with the circle of the Diosphos and Sappho Painters.
  • CAVI Comments: With Ηροσανθη Beazley compared Ηροσωρα on Florence 81,947, ARV[2] 1312/2, and Οινανθη, Καλλιστανθη. He also suggested as probable the vocative in the Ηροσανθη inscription. For parallels to the latter, see AttScr. Cf. also Threatte (1996), 115 (from gen. ηρος of εαρ).
  • CAVI Number: 4642
  • AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 354 (not ill.). — Talcott (1936), 348 (mention). — ARV[2] (1963), 306, 1614 (no ill. mentioned). — AttScr (1990), no. 529, fig. 115 (lip only).
  • 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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