6418, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1842,0728.802

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Vase Number: 6418
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
Date: -550 TO -500
Attributed To: ATHENA P by HASPELS
Decoration: Body: SIREN ON ALTAR (?) PLAYING LYRE BETWEEN DRAPED MEN, DOGS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B651
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1842,0728.802 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: British Museum Yearbook: 4 (1980), 70, FIG.36
Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 256.48, PL.45.5 (PART)
Hornbostel, W. et al., Aus Gräbern und Heiligtümern, Die Antikensammlung Walter Kropatscheck (Mainz, 1980): 109, LEFT (PART)
AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4555
AVI Record Number: 4383
LIMC ID: 14430
LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-74701CFB3CFE2-F
British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1842-0728-802
CAVI Collection: LONDON B 651.
CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. FROM MELOS. ATHENA PAINTER. EARLY FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: SIREN PLAYING THE LYRE, BETWEEN TWO ONLOOKERS.
CAVI Inscriptions: IN THE CENTER, BETWEEN SIREN AND MAN, DOWN: TWO IMITATION LETTERS PRESERVED: σ(π)[--](?). THE SECOND LETTER BLURRED.
CAVI Comments: THE FIRZT LETTER PERHAPS A REVERSED NU.
CAVI Number: 4383
AVI Bibliography: HASPELS (1936), 150 N. 4, 151, 158 N. 2, 256/48, PL. 45,5 (MUCH BIBL., BECAUSE OF THE SIREN).
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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