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)
