Attributed To: EPIKTETOS by SIGNATURE KLEOPHRADES P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A,B: WOMEN IN SAKKOI WITH SCEPTRES (GODDESSES ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: F2170
Previous Collections:
Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg: F2170
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 40 (1936) 113 American Journal of Archaeology: 42 (1938) 239 (B) Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1981, 330, FIGS.1-3 (PARTS OF A & B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 185.28, 1632 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 123.25 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 71.23 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.142 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 93 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 187 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIKENSAMMLUNG 15, 14, 15, 16, 17, FIGS.1, 2, 3, BEILAGE 1.1, PLS.(4577,4578) 1.1-4, 2.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): IV, PL.299 (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Greifenhagen, A., Neue Fragmente des Kleophradesmalers (Heidelberg, 1972): PLS.30-31 (A,B) Heilmeyer, W-D. et al., Antikenmuseum Berlin, Die ausgestellten Werke (Berlin, 1988): 122, NO.6 (A) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): I, 303 Paleothodoros, D., Epictetos (Leuven, 2004): PL.53, FIGS.3-4 (A, B) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.330 (A) Rouet, P., Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases (Oxford, 2001): PL.15 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Cerveteri. Kleophrades Painter. 480-470. Late (Beazley).
CAVI Subject: A: goddess. B: goddess{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: False inscriptions on A and B: A: above, near the margin: Επικτετος and
εγραφσεν. B: on the left: Επικτετος. On the right: εγραφσεν. Boardman in AA 1981
also mentions traces of genuine inscriptions, which he thought he saw: A: to
left of [the goddess'] scepter: a clear H (or possibly a retr. N), ca. midway
between her wrist and the scepter's top. Just below her wrist, about the same
distance from the scepter as the last, a fainter Attic gamma{2}. B: has only
ghosts of letters: above the [goddess'] wrist, a V and Attic gamma{2}. Below the
wrist, another Attic gamma(2), beneath the gap in the γρ of εγραφσεν. Beneath
the gap in φσ a more clearly preserved O. He thought he saw other letters but
was less confident.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} doubtless an extract from a Judgment of Paris, hence A, Hera, B,
Aphrodite (ARV[2] 1632). {2} `Attic gamma' is my term.
CAVI Comments: Boardman and Gehring have shown the signatures to be modern. Richter had
pointed out that the vase, though signed Epiktetos, was by the Kleophrades
Painter, whence he had been called Epiktetos II. Zahn had assured Beazley that
the inscriptions were genuine (see JHS 30).
