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207770, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, Athens, National Museum, 1626

  • Vase Number: 207770
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
  • Provenance: GREECE, BOEOTIA, TANAGRA
  • Date: -475 to -425
  • Inscriptions: MYS
    Signature: M[Y]S EGRAPHSEN
  • Attributed To: MYS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: Body: APOLLO WITH BOW, ARTEMIS WITH QUIVER AND KITHARA, DEER, HERMES WITH KERYKEION, LETO WITH WREATH (?)
    Neck: NIKE
    Shoulder: NIKAI FLYING WITH TRIPODS TO ALTAR
  • Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: CC1362
  • Previous Collections:
    • Athens, National Museum: 1626
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 663
    Kaltsas, N. (ed.), Athens-Sparta (New York, 2006): 235, NO.122 (COLOUR OF BD, N AND S)
    Lagogianni-Georgakarakos, M. (ed.), Known and Unknown Nikai. In History, Art and Life. Ministry of Culture and Sports - National Archaeological Museum (Athens. 2021): 40-41, FIGS.7A-D (COLOUR OF SH AND BD)
    Manakidou, E. and Avramidou, A. (eds.), I keramiki tis klasikis epochis sto voreio Agaio kai tin periphereia tou (480-323/300 BC)/Classical Pottery of the Northern Aegean and its periphery (480-323/300 B.C.) (Thessaloniki 2019): 202, FIGS.20A-B (PARTS)
    Simantoni-Bornia, E. et al., Amymona Erga, Timitikos Tomos gia ton Kathigiti Vasili K. Lambrinoudaki (Athens, 2007): 238-239, FIGS.1-5 (BD, S)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=915
  • AVI Record Number: 801
  • LIMC ID: 12328
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74523f69dbb55-6
  • CAVI Collection: Athens, N.M. 1626.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF lekythos. From Tanagra. Mys. Second quarter fifth.
  • CAVI Subject: Neck: Nike. Shoulder: two Nikai, one on each side of an altar. Body: Artemis, Apollon, Hermes, Leto.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Neck: Nικε. Shoulder: Nικε, twice, one above each figure. Body: Αρτεμις. Απολλον. Ερμες. Λετο. Μ[υ]ς | εγραφσεν, behind Artemis.
  • CAVI Comments: Inscriptions after CC, except for the signature, which is given after ARV[2]. CC gives it in two lines, and the upsilon as extant. Letter forms differ in the two publications. -Robertson: a famous metal engraver named Mys is rather later.
  • CAVI Number: 0801
  • AVI Bibliography: Collignon–Couve (1902–4), no. 1362, pl. 46. — Hoppin (1919), ii, 225. — ARV[2] (1963), 663. — Robertson (1992), 178 (mention).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580114
  • Coordinates: 38.330884,23.540955
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 38.3001983333,23.581173
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