12977, ATHENIAN, London, market, Christie's

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Vase Number: 12977
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
Date: -475 to -425
Inscriptions: Kalos/Kale: NEANTOS KALOS
NEANTOS
Transcription: MELETOS ?
Attributed To: LONDON E 342, P OF by UNKNOWN
Decoration: A: WOMAN WITH PHIALE (?), DRAPED YOUTH WITH STAFF
B: DRAPED YOUTH
Last Recorded Collection: London, market, Christie's
Publication Record: Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 398
Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: 10.12.1986, 59, NO.223 (A, B)
Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: 16.7.1985, 100, NO.424 (COLOUR OF A, B)
Christie, Manson and Woods, sale catalogue: 8.6.1988, 66, NO.257 (B)
PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 6 (A, B, COLOUR OF A, B AND PARTS OF A)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4955
AVI Record Number: 4777
CAVI Collection: London Market (Christie).
CAVI Lemma: RF neck amphora. Painter of London E 342. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: youth with his staff, departing; woman with a phiale(?). B: youth.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Nεαντος (Meletos(?)) καλος.
CAVI Comments: Oakley: "The kalos name ... that was read as Neantos appears from a photograph in the Beazley Archive to be a misreading for Meletos." I too suspect that the name is miswritten.
CAVI Number: 4777
AVI Bibliography: BADB 12,977. — Christies (1985), 100/424 (all); — Christies (1986), 59/223. — Add.[2] (1989), 398. — Oakley (1997), 12 n. 12 (mention).
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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