Decoration: A: ORACULAR HEAD OF ORPHEUS, APOLLO, YOUTH IN CHLAMYS AND PETASOS, SEATED ON ROCK WITH WRITING TABLET AND STYLUS B: WOMAN, ONE WITH LYRE, ONE WITH FILLET I: STAMPED
Last Recorded Collection: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College: 103.25
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1401.1 Boreas: 11 (1988) PL.10.4 Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving: 64 (1989) 113, FIG.E (A) Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.143 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 373 Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indigeni, Volume primo, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di studi, 14-19 maggio 2001, Catania, Caltanisetta, Gela, Camarina, Vittoria, Siracusa (Rome, 2010): 66, FIG.11 (A) Swaddling, J. and Perkins, P. (eds.), Etruscan by Definition, the Cultural, Regional and Personal Identity of the Etruscans, Papers in honour of Sybille Haynes, MBE (London, 2009): 56, FIG.9 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Tsiaphaki, D., I Thraki stin attiki eikonographia tou 5ou aiona p. Ch., Prosengiseis stis scheseis Athinas kai Thrakis (Komotini, 1998): 402, FIG.80 (A, B)
CAVI Collection: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College.
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Painter of Ruvo 1346 (Beazley). Ca. 430 (Halm-Tisserant).
CAVI Subject: Int.: impressed design. A: The Oracular Head of Orpheus: at left, a seated
boy writing on tablets the prophecies of the severed head of Orpheus, which lies
on the ground in the center; at right, Apollo. B: a woman with a lyre, and
another woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: I have no record of any inscription. Included here for the ref. to writing.
CAVI Comments: H.-T. calls the boy a grammateus.
CAVI Number: 3009a
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 1401/1 (bibl.). — Add.[2] (1989), 373 (bibl.). —
Halm-Tisserant (1989), 108 and n. 65, pl. III,e (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
