Inscriptions: EPICHARIS Kalos/Kale: EPICHARIS KALE Kalos/Kale: MYRRINISKE KALE Named: PANDION, KLYMENE, NIKEPOLIS, ANTIOCHOS
Attributed To: MEIDIAS P by MILCHHOFER
Decoration: Lid: WOMEN, ONE SEATED WITH PHIALE, ONE WITH TRAY WITH FRUITS, ONE WITH WREATH, ONE WITH BOX, YOUTHS, ONE DRAPED, SEATED WITH BIRD (NAMED, ANTIOCHOS, PANDION) ALTAR, INCENSE BURNER, PLEMOCHOE
Last Recorded Collection: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: STG311
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1314.17 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1614, 1615 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 462.32 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 477 Bullettino Archeologico Napolitano: N.S.1. PL.3 Burn, L., The Meidias Painter (Oxford, 1987): PL.10 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 362 Himmelmann, N., Ideale Nacktheit in der griechischen Kunst, 26. Erganzungsheft zum JdI (Berlin, 1990): 49, FIG.17 (LD) 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): 286, FIG.228 (DRAWING OF LD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.99, PANDION 6 (PART OF LD) Nicole, G., Meidias et le style fleuri (Geneva, 1908): 100, PL.15 Vasi Antichi, Museo Archeologio Nazionale di Napoli (Naples 2009): 81 (COLOUR OF PART)
CAVI Lemma: RF lekanis lid. From Canosa. Meidias Painter. Late fifth.
CAVI Subject: Antiochos and women. Pandion and women{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Antiochos. Between Klymene and the seated Pandion, at mid-height: Πανδιω̣ν.
Above the altar behind Klymene: Κλυμενη (the first three letters very faint).
Between Pandion's back and and the figure of Epicharis, at mid-height: Επιχαρις.
καλη (goes with Epicharis){2}. Behind her, at the same height: Nikopolis or
Nikepolis (hard to see in the ph.). Μυρρινισκη καλη{2}. Two other inscriptions
on either side of a thymiaterion.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "in glory and joy," Beazley (1935). {2} not a real kale-inscription,
ARV[2].
CAVI Comments: An atticized paradise garden: Pandion and Antiochos appear with women:
Klymene and Epicharis express general pleasantness; Nike (offering a libation to
Antiochos, welcoming the Attic hero into her paradise garden) and Nikepolis are
connected with Athens. Myrrhiniske kale may refer to the famous Myrrhine,
priestess of Athena Nike. Pandion's shrine was probably located on the
Acropolis. Antiochos is a visitor as he had no shrine (see Kron 109ff.). The
inscriptions are done mainly from pl. 10 in Burn. They are usually at mid-height
and horizontal, in very casual disjointed letters, which are hard to see in the
photos.
CAVI Number: 5503
AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1935), 487 (mention). — ARV[2] (1963), 1314/17. — Harrison (1964),
pl. 11,e (after Nicole). — Para. (1971), 477. — Kron (1976), pl. 14. — Burn
(1987), 18-19, 99/M 21, pl. 10,a-b. — Add.[2] (1989), 362.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
