Menu
Search
Main SiteGandhara ConnectionsVase Corpus (CVA Online)
Search

9017278, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1877,0805.5

  • Vase Number: 9017278
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: SIX
  • Shape Name: CHOUS
  • Date: -425 to -375
  • Inscriptions: Kalos/Kale: MIKON KALOS
  • Decoration: Body: CHILD CRAWLING TO BALL
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E548
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1601.1
    Jenkins, I. et al., Defining Beauty, The Body in ancient Greece (London, 2015): 153, MIDDLE, UNNUMBERED (COLOUR OF BD)
    Sengoku-Haga, K., Jenkins, I., et al., The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece from the British Museum (Osaka, 2011): 126, NO.73 (COLOUR OF BD)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4797
  • AVI Record Number: 4625
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1877-0805-5
  • CAVI Collection: London E 548.
  • CAVI Lemma: Oinochoe (chous) in Six' technique. From Athens. Unattributed. Last quarter fifth.
  • CAVI Subject: In white: baby boy on all fours crawling to right and reaching for a ball.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Above him: Μικ[ιω]ν{1}. To left of his head: κ(α)λος.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} so ARV[2]; Smith has Μικιων.
  • CAVI Comments: Not a real kalos-name, since it is applied to a number of babies, see ARV[2] 1601.
  • CAVI Number: 4625
  • AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 319. — Hoorn (1951), fig. 439/645 (bibl.). — ARV[2] (1963), 1601/1.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/DF911146-ED77-4028-AF89-2E9F81534203

My photograph albums
Site map Copyright Accessibility Privacy statement Contact us
Gandhara Connections
Gandhara Connections on Facebook
Gandhara Connections on Twitter
Back to top