Decoration: Obverse: FUNERARY, PROTHESIS, DRAPED MEN AND WOMEN MOURNING, DRAPED YOUTH, (NAMED), COLUMN
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: MNB905
Previous Collections:
Paris, Musée du Louvre: L4
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 95 (1991), 630, FIG.1 Angiolillo, S., and Giuman, M. (eds.), Imago, Studi di iconografia antica (Cagliari, 2007): 40, FIG.10 Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1977, 596, FIG.21 Arrigoni, G. (ed.), Le donne in Grecia (Bari, 1985): 226, PL.7 Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland: IV (2009) 95, FIG.4 Benndorf, O., Griechische und sicilische Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1883): PL.1 (DRAWING) Boardman, J., Athenian Black Figure Vases (London, 1974): FIG.265 Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 229, FIG.250 Charbonneaux, J., Martin, R., and Villard, F., Archaic Greek Art (London, 1971): 311, FIG.356 Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 138, FIG.27 (COLOUR OF OV) Cohen, A. and Rutter, J.B. (eds.), Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy, Hesperia Supplement 41 (Princeton, 2007): 91, FIG.4.2 Delavaud-Roux, M-H., Les danses pacifiques en Grece antique (Aix-en-Provence, 1994): 126, NO.54 (DRAWING OF PART) Donka-Tole, M. and Oikonomou, S., Archaiologikes symvoles, 2, Attike, A kai G Ephoreies Proistorikon & Klasikon Archaioteton, Mouseio Kykladikes Technes (Athens, 2013): 356, FIG.1.11, 357, FIG.2 (OV) Duby, G., Perrot, M. (eds.), Histoire des femmes (Plon, 1991): 187, FIG.14 (DRAWING) Evans Grubbs, J., and Parkin, T. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World (Oxford, 2013): 202, FIG.9.1 Fantham, E. et al., Women in the Classical World, Image and Text (New York, 1994): 48, FIG.1.13 Foxhall, L. and Salmon, J. (eds.), When men were men, Masculinity, power and identity in classical antiquity (London, 1998): 35, FIG.1.17 Haack, M-C. (ed.), Ecritures, cultures, societes dans les necropoles d'Italie ancienne (Bordeaux 2009): 69, FIG.2 Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 229.58 Huf, L., Frauen jenseits der Konvention, Alterszüge, Tätowierungen und afrikanische Physiognomien im Frauenbild attischer Vasen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Munich, 2018): 172, FIG.64 (COLOUR) Kurtz, D. & Boardman, J., Greek Burial Customs (London, 1971): PL.33 Kurtz, D.C. and Boardman, J., Thanatos, Tod und Jenseits bei den Griechen (Mainz, 1985): 171, FIG.50 Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.51 Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 203, APP.3 (COLOUR OF OV) Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 53 (1928), BEIL.11 Mommsen, H., Exekias I, Die Grabtafeln (Mainz, 1998): BEILAGE C Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 165, FIG.3 Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): PL.31 (COLOUR OF OV) Perrot, G., Chipiez, C., Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquite, vols. IX-X (Paris, 1911-14): IX, 257, FIG.118 Pfisterer-Haas, S., Darstellungen alter Frauen in der griechischen Kunst (Frankfurt, 1989): 177, FIG.26 Ruhfel, H., Das Kind in der Griechischen Kunst (Mainz, 1984): 41, FIG.14 Rumpf, A., Die Religion der Griechen (Leipzig, 1928): FIG.181 (DRAWING) Scheibler, I., Griechische Malerei der Antike (Munich, 1994): 131, FIG.59 Seifert, M., Dazugehören, Kinder in Kulten und Festen von Oikos und Phratrie. Bildanalysen zu attischen Sozialisonsstufen des 6. bis 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Stuttgart, 2011): FIG.3 Smith, T.J. and Plantzos, D. (eds.), A Companion to Greek Art (Malden, 2012): II, 489, FIG.24.4
CAVI Lemma: BF PLAQUE. FROM KOLIAS. SAPPHO PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 500
(BOARDMAN).
CAVI Subject: PROTHESIS: A MALE ON A KLINE SURROUNDED BY MOURNING WOMEN; AT LEFT, CHORUS OF
MEN, AND COLUMN. BOARDMAN: THE MOTHER RESTS HER RIGHT HAND BY THE DECEASED'S
HEAD; THE SMALL SISTER MOURNS BY THE HEAD OF THE BIER; A TALLER GIRL IS BY THE
FOOT; A BABY BOY IS BEHIND HER BESIDE A STOOL; AT LEFT, A WHITE COLUMN STANDS
BEFORE THE APPROACHING MEN.
CAVI Inscriptions: BOARDMAN'S READINGS: AMONG APPROACHING MEN IS αδελφος; THEY ARE GREETED BY
πατερ, WHO FACES THEM AT THE FOOT OF THE BIER; THE μετερ HOLDS HER DEAD SON'S
HEAD [I TRUST B. IS RIGHT TO CALL THE DEAD A MALE]; BESIDE HER, HER SECOND
DAUGHTER, αδελφε; AT HEAD OF BIER STANDS θεθε [FOR τηθη], THE GRANDMOTHER; THREE
MOURNERS ARE CALLED AUNTS, θεθις [FOR τηθις, FATHER'S OR MOTHER'S SISTER], ONE
OF THEM, ON THE FATHER'S SIDE, προσπατρ[ρος] [PRINTED AS ONE WORD BY B.]{1}.
ALSO: οιμοι AND οιμιοι. λοσυτοσ AND λοσυτ ARE READ BELOW THE BIER AND BY THE
COLUMN; BOTH WORDS ARE NONSENSE; ο[.]ελοσα̣(2) APPEARS BEFORE THE AUNT AT THE
RIGHT (THE LAST PERSERVED LETTER SHOULD BE ALPHA, PERHAPS FOLLOWED BY MORE),
JUST POSSIBLE IS ωφελουσα, `RENDERING SERVICE,' "OR SOMETHING FROM THE ομηλ-
ROOT MIGHT FIT THE CONTEXT", BUT IT IS PROBABLY NONSENSE. TYPICAL OF NONSENSE
INSCRIPTIONS ON SAPPHO PAINTER'S FUNERARY WORKS ARE: ON THIS PLAQUE: λοσυτ,
λοσυτοσ, ο.ελοσα; ON LOUVRE E 734: λοστοστ, λοσ, λοστσ. ACR. 2569: λολοσλοσ,
WITH OTHER INSCRIPTIONS (THIS CAN BE USED FOR ATTR. TO SAPPHO PTR.) COLUMN
KRATER IN CARLSRUHE (HASPELS 228/57) HAS: λισλισ, ETC. ATHENS, VLASTO MVB 55
(B., NO. 29, Q.V.): THE INSCRIPTION CORRESPONDING TO LOUVRE MNB 905'S λοσυτοσ
MAY BE λο...
CAVI Footnotes: {1} MY READING FROM A PHOTO: (1)προσπατο̣◊̣, I.E. πρὸς πατρό̣[ς], AN AUNT ON
THE FATHER'S SIDE? {2} I READ FROM THE PHOTO: οδ̣εγοσυ[--], RETR., WITH SPACE
FOR 3+ LETTERS.
CAVI Comments: = L 4. THE INSCRIPTIONS DONE FROM THE PHOTOS. THEY INCLUDE NOT ONLY NAMES,
BUT ALSO NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS, PERHAPS IMITATING WAILING. I AM NOT SURE I HAVE
READ ALL THE INSCRIPTIONS.
