Decoration: Body: SYMPOSIUM, DRAPED MEN RECLINING ON KLINAI, WOMAN PLAYING PIPES, TABLES, DOGS
Last Recorded Collection: Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi: 20538
Publication Record: Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 49 Panvini, R. and Giudice, F. (eds.), Ta Attika, Attic Figured Vases from Gela (Rome, 2003): 258.D10 (PARTS) Stampolidis, N.C. and Tassoulas, Y. (eds.), Eros, from Hesiod’s Theogony to Late Antiquity, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 10th December 2009-11th April 2010 (Athens, 2009): 208, NO.174 (COLOUR OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. FROM GELA, `PREDIO LEOPARDI'. RECALLS ACHELOOS PAINTER
(HASPELS). LAST QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: SYMPOSION.
CAVI Inscriptions: Hιμερα.
CAVI Comments: ORSI, NSC: "UN GRUPPO DI FIGURE SDRAIATE SOPRA UNA KLINE, SORMONTATE DALL'
ENIGMATICO NOME: Hιμερα." WEBSTER DISCUSSES THE NAME AND THINKS IT SHOULD REFER
TO THE SICILIAN TOWN OR ITS NYMPH; THE INSCRIPTION MIGHT HAVE BEEN COMMISSIONED
BY A SICILIAN IN ATHENS. I THINK PROBABLY THE NAME OF A HETAERA (WHETHER PRESENT
OR AS A KALE-NAME); FOR THE NAME, CF. LGPN II, IG I/3. 571 (500-480).
CAVI Number: 7546
AVI Bibliography: ORSI (1901), 309. — ORSI (1906), PL. 20. — HASPELS (1936), 49. — LIPPOLD
(1954), 136F. AND PL. 28,1. — WEBSTER (1972), 77 N. 4 (MENTION).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
