Attributed To:Near HECTOR P by BEAZLEY PELEUS P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: WOMEN, ONE PLAYING PIPES, ONE WITH KROTALA, DWARF (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität: 707
Publication Record: American Journal of Philology: 142 (2021) 374, FIGS.3-3A (COLOUR) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1039.6 Boreas: 35 (2012), PL.2.5 Dasen, V., Dwarfs in Ancient Egypt and Greece (Oxford, 1993): PL.47.1 Frel, J., Greek Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, 1981): 5, FIG.7 Journal of Hellenic Studies: 59 (1939) 11 (NOT ILLUSTRATED) Keay, S. and Moser, S. (eds.), Greek Art in View, Studies in honour of Brian Sparkes (Oxford, 2004): 8, FIG.1.10 Mann, C., Haake, M, Hoff, R. von den (eds.), Rollenbilder in der athenischen Demokratie, Medien, Gruppen, Räume im politischen und sozialen System, Beiträge zu einem interdisziplinaren Kolloquium in Freiburg i. Br., 24.-25. November 2006 (Wiesbaden, 2009): 25, FIG.4 Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 292, PL.180 Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung: 52 (1937) PL.14 Oxford Journal of Archaeology: 9 (1990) 197, FIG.13 Pritchard, D. (ed.), War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2010): 324, FIG.12.14 Prost, F., and Wilgaux, J. (eds.), Penser et representer le corps dans l'Antiquite (Rennes, 2006): 113, FIG.11 MIDDLE (DRAWING OF PART) Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PL.48.1
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF stamnos. Peleus Painter (Polygnotan). Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: at left, hands holding flutes; in the middle: upper part of a dancing
dwarf; at right, a raised arm with a krotalon.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above his head and the raised arm: [hιππο]κλειδης{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} this is the form generally given, but why not: [Ιππο]κλειδης? Perhaps
because the Polygnotan workshop resisted the Ionic alphabet; see AttScr (1990),
111. A bit lower, there is a trace where I read a doubtful alpha from the photo,
but I am not at all sure that this is a letter.
CAVI Comments: This is the (stage) name of a real dwarf (Beazley), after the famous
Hippokleides of Herodotean fame. Differently Lippold. For dancing dwarfs see
Robertson (1979) 130.
