Inscriptions: Inscription: HO PAIS KALOS Inscription: NAICHI
Attributed To: DOURIS by HARTWIG
Decoration: A: COURTING, ATHLETE, YOUTHS, ONE DRAPED WITH FILLET, ONE WITH FILLETS AND SPRIGS, MEN AND YOUTH, ALL DRAPED, WITH FLOWERS B: DRAPED YOUTHS, SOME WITH STAFFS, SPONGE, ARYBALLOS AND BAG SUSPENDED I: DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF, SPONGE, ARYBALLOS AND BAG SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E52
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 432.59 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 202.37 Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PL.65, NO.105 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 117 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 237 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 9, 36-37, FIGS.02C, 03L, 07C, PLS.(806-807) 30.A-B, 31.A-B Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.32.G51 (A) Martins, J.P., A Arte e os Jogos Gregos na Antiguidade, As Representacoes das Actividades Fisico-Atleticas na Ceramica Classica Grega nos Periodos das Figureas Negras e Vermelhas (Coimbra, 2009): 41, FIG.1 (PART OF A) Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): FIG.32 (I) Sengoku-Haga, K., Jenkins, I., et al., The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece from the British Museum (Osaka, 2011): 113, NO.67 (COLOUR OF A) Stuttard, D., Power Games, Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics (London, 2012): 165, FIG.60 (COLOUR OF PART OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci, Cucumella area C (fam. Fepia). Douris. Python, potter.
First quarter fifth. Period 3 (Beazley). Middle period (Buitron-Oliver).
CAVI Subject: Int.: bearded man with his stick; sponge, aryballos, bag. A: youth handing a
fillet to a boy victor with branches; man offers a flower to a boy; a bearded
man with flower. B: five youths and boys; sponge, aryballos, etc.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: beside the stick: hο παις καλος, retr. A: hο παις καλος. B: hο παις
καλος, ναιχι. Under the foot, Gr.: αγυ, retr. (with Etruscan alpha) and ligature
of mu and zeta, the latter with short cross bars{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} not in Hackl (1909) or Johnston (1979). B.-O. only has the ligature.
CAVI Comments: From the same place as London E 53. Scenes from the palaestra, partly erotic.
Williams: the first Gr. seems Etruscan and may be part of a proper name.
CAVI Number: 4465
AVI Bibliography: Hartwig (1893), 620/3 and 686/45. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 76-77. —
ARV[2] (1963), 432/59. — Wegner (1968), 176-79. — Add.[2] (1989), 237. — D.
Williams, CVA London 9, Great Britain 17 (1993), 36/21, pls. 30-31, figs. 3,l
(facs. of Gr.) and 7,c (profile). — Buitron-Oliver (1995), 79/105 (incl. facs.
of Gr.), pl. 65.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
