CAVI Collection: ATHENS, KAM 3ε.(1). [LIST AS: ATHENS, TRITI EPHORIA A 5606.]
CAVI Lemma: FRAGMENTARY RF LEKYTHOS. FROM ATHENS, CERAMICUS, MARATHON STREET 61{2}.
ACHILLES PAINTER. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 440 (DONTAS). 450-445 (OAKLEY).
CAVI Subject: [MISTRESS AND MAID:] WOMAN TO RIGHT WITH A SMALL BOX; PARTS OF A WOMAN SEATED
TO LEFT (MOSTLY LOST), WEARING A DIADEM; AT UPPER LEFT, HEAD SCARF AND OINOCHOE;
AT UPPER RIGHT, ANOTHER OINOCHOE.
CAVI Inscriptions: TO UPPER RIGHT OF STANDING WOMAN'S HEAD, HORIZONTAL: Χρυσοθεμις̣. BETWEEN THE
WOMEN, AT HEIGHT OF STANDING WOMAN'S HEAD: Αξιοπειθης | καλος | Αλκιμαχω. . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ABOVE THE HEAD OF THE SEATED WOMAN,
HORIZONTAL: Ευρυ[--]{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} NOT IN BEAZLEY. DONTAS DOES NOT SPECIFY WHERE THE LEKYTHOS IS; HIS NUMBER
IS KAM 3ε; IT IS LISTED IN DELT. AS TRITI EPHORIA, AND BY OAKLEY AS TRITI
EPHORIA A 5606. THE VASE IS PROBABLY THE SAME AS THE [RF] LEKYTHOS LISTED IN
ADD.[2] 393, WITH DIFFERENT BIBLIOGRAPHY, AS `ATHENS, NM, FROM ATHENS', ALTHOUGH
THE LAST WORD OF THE INSCRIPTION IS THERE GIVEN AS ΑΛΚΙΜΑΧΟΣ; DONTAS' VASE HAS
NO FINAL SIGMA THERE. {2} ANCIENT RUBBISH HEAP. {3} DONTAS: EURYDIKE, EURYKLEIA
AND EURYNOME ARE POSSIBILITIES, BUT D. PREFERS EURYDIKE, NOT THE BRIDE OF
ORPHEUS BUT AN UNDERWORLD GODDESS (BIBL. IN N. 31). - THE FINAL SIGMA OF
CHRYSOTHEMIS IS INCOMPLETE. OAKLEY IN THE CAT. MISPRINTS THE NAME. THE PH. IN
OAKLEY SHOWS THAT HE RIGHTLY PRINTS Αλκιμαχω WITH A FINAL OMEGA (FOR OMICRON
UPSILON). OAKLEY NOTES THAT THE ACHILLES PAINTER NEVER NAMES CONTEMPORARY
FIGURES; HE FINDS REILLY'S THEORY THAT THE VASE REFERS TO THE WEDDING OF THE
DANAIDS ATTRACTIVE, SINCE CHRYSOTHEMIS, EURYDIKE AND EURYTHOE ARE KNOWN DANAID
NAMES. THE DIADEM MAY MEAN THAT EURY[--] IS THE BRIDE. SEE HOWEVER LGPN II.
[[FROM CAVI 946:]] CHRYSOTHEMIS AND EURYDIKE ARE BOTH LISTED IN LGPN II, THE
FORMER I.A. FROM SEG 31.55, C. 440, THE LATTER HELLENISTIC ONLY. EURYNOME IS
LISTED AS DOUBTFUL; EURYKLEIA IS NOT LISTED. THE QUESTION IS, ARE THESE TWO GOOD
ATHENIAN NAMES OR IS THE SCENE MYTHOLOGICAL?
CAVI Comments: OAKLEY 14 POINTS OUT THAT THE TABELLA IS NOT AT THE TOP, AS MOST OF THEM ARE,
BUT [A BIT] LOWER [THIS IS BECAUSE IT IS LOWER THAN THE NAME OF CHRYSOTHEMIS AND
AT THE SAME HEIGHT AS THAT OF THE SEATED EURY[--]). DONTAS THINKS NOT A MISTRESS
AND MAID SCENE: CHRYSOTHEMIS IS A FREE WOMAN AND THE SEATED WOMAN IS A BRIDE
(SEE FURTHER `FTN' 3). IONIC ALPHABET.REILLY LISTS THE FIRST NAME AS Χρυσοθημις,
WHICH LED ME TO POSTULATE WRONGLY A SYLLABIC Hε [[H(ε)]] IN CAVI. FOR THE SEATED
WOMAN, REILLY SUGGESTS EITHER Ευρυ[δικη] OR Ευρυ[θοη]. SHE CONSIDERS THE SEATED
WOMAN THE BRIDE, THE STANDING WOMAN, AN ATTENDANT. BOTH NAMES SUGGESTED BY HER
FOR THE BRIDE ARE NAMES OF DANAIDS; THAT MYTH IS CONNECTED WITH WEDDINGS.
CHRYSOTHEMIS IS ALSO A DANAID NAME; BUT SEE THE LISTING IN LGPN II. —
CAVI Number: 1746
AVI Bibliography: BADB 3971 (NO MUSEUM NO.; WITH ALKIMACHOU). — ALEXANDRI (1969), 56 AND 59F.
NO. 31, PH. PL. 51,β [[SM., ILLEG.]]. — MICHAUD (1971), 821, PH. 826 FIG. 45
[[SM., ALMOST INVIS.]]. — DONTAS (1973), 71-75, PL. 12,1-4 [[SM. BUT VIS.]]. —
ADD.[2] (1989), 393. — REILLY (1989), 430 AND 433/13 (NO ILL.). — OAKLEY (1997),
11, 14, *64, 130/115, PLS. 74E (SHOULDER) AND 75 (SHOWS INSCRIPTIONS).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
