13412, ATHENIAN, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 1977.216.2397
Decoration: Body: DRAPED FIGURE WITH KITHARA MOUNTING PLATFORM, DRAPED FIGURE LEANING ON STAFF, DRAPED FIGURES ON PLATFORM, COLUMN, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: 2397
Previous Collections:
Cambridge (MA), Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum: 1977.216.2397
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: CAMBRIDGE (MA), FOGG MUSEUM AND GALLATIN COLLECTIONS, 38, PL.(359) 21.3A-C View Whole CVA Plates Hyperboreus: 14.2 (2008) FIG.11 AT PAGE 32 (PART) Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 71, FIG.49 PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 3 (BD) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.22D-E (PARTS)
CAVI Lemma: BF ALABASTRON. UNATTRIBUTED. EARLY FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A: AULODIA: A YOUTH AND A BOY ON A PLATFORM (NO DOUBT PLAYING FLUTES AND
SINGING, RESPECTIVELY), WITH A MAN LOOKING ON{1}. B: CITHARODE.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: A: TO RIGHT OF THE ONLOOKER: νν(λ). BETWEEN THE MUSICIANS:
--](λ)εν. TO RIGHT OF THE PLATFORM: --]ενε(λ). B: TO LEFT OF THE CITHARODE:
--]νον(λ). TO HIS RIGHT: --]κν{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SHAPIRO: UNCLEAR WHETHER THE LEFT-HAND FIGURE WAS PLAYING THE FLUTES; THE
RIGHT-HAND ONE IS TOO ENVELOPED IN HIS GARMENT TO HAVE PLAYED AN INSTRUMENT. S.
THINKS THIS IS AN AULODIA (SINGER + FLAUTIST). THE SINGLE MAN LEANING ON HIS
STICK IS AN AUDIENCE OF ONE; THE COLUMN SHOWS AN ARCHITECTURAL SETTING. {2} SOME
OF THE NONSENSE LETTERS SIMULATE WORDS TUMBLING FROM THE MOUTHS OF PERFORMERS
[SHAPIRO].
CAVI Comments: HASTY WRITING. THE LETTER HERE WRITTEN (λ) CONSISTS OF AN UPRIGHT WITH A BLOB
ATTACHED ABOVE THE MIDDLE; IT IS NOT REALLY A LAMBDA. EPSILONS ARE DISJOINTED.
CAVI Number: 3925
AVI Bibliography: BEAZLEY (1942), 99. — G.H. CHASE AND M.Z. PEASE, CVA FOGG & GALLATIN, USA 8
(1942), PL. 21,3. — SHAPIRO (1989), 47, PL. 22,D-E.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
