Decoration: A: COURTING, DRAPED YOUTH LEANING ON STAFF WITH BOX WITH WREATH OR NECKLACE, ALABASTRON SUSPENDED B: DOMESTIC, WOMAN AT KALATHOS TYING CHITON, ALABASTRON AND LEKYTHOS SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1892.7-18.10
Publication Record: Algrain, I., L'alabastre attique. Origine, forme et usages (Brussels, 2014): 166, FIG.100 (COLOUR OF PARTS OF BD AND DRAWING OF PROFILE) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1560 Dietrich, N., Das Attribut als Problem, Eine bildwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur griechischen Kunst (Berlin, Munich, and Boston, 2018): 44-45, FIGS.1.13A-B (A, B) 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): 508, PLS.19A-B (COLOUR OF A AND B) Lee, M.M., Body, Dress and Identity in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2015): 108, FIG.4.13 (PARTS OF BD) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 322, FIGS.4A-B (A, B) Robson, J., Sex and sexuality in Classical Athens (Edinburgh, 2013): 269, FIG.29 (B) Sanchez-Fernandez, C. et al. (eds.), Dioses, heroes y atletas. La imagen del cuerpo en la Grecia antigua (Madrid, 2015): 79, FIG.6 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF alabastron. From Elateia (Boeotia). Unattributed. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: a youth leaning on his stick and taking a necklace from a box; alabastron.
B: a woman tying her girdle (apoptygma in teeth); at right, kalathos; at left,
alabastron; at right, lekythos.
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of the youth's head: καλε. Below the box, stoich. two-liner, the
second word starting under the third letter of the first line(1): Αλεξομενὸς |
καλος. B: to left of the woman's head: καλε, retr.; at right: hε παις.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} according to Smith's text.
CAVI Comments: The kalos-name only here in Beazley; not in PA, but Pape has Keil, Inscr.
boeot. 76; LGPN ii has the name also from IG i/3. 1475, ca. 550(?). The more
common form is Alexamenos (Αλεξαμενός), see Pape, s.v. (this name is not in PA
or LGPN ii). Mixed alphabet. The letters are Attic except Xi and sigma in
Alexomenos. It is interesting that the inscriptions are Attic, while the proper
name alone is in Ionic.
CAVI Number: 4643
AVI Bibliography: A.S. Murray (1894), 177 (not ill.). — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 354-55.
— Rodenwaldt (1932), 13 (mention). — ARV[2] (1963), 1560.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
