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204379, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1873,0820.304

  • Vase Number: 204379
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
  • Shape Name: OINOCHOE
  • Provenance: ITALY, LOCRI (?)
  • Date: -500 TO -450
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: HE PAIS KALE
  • Attributed To: BRYGOS P by WILLIAMS
    FOUNDRY P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body: DOMESTIC, WOMAN WITH SPINDLE AND DISTAFF SPINNING WOOL
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: D13
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Barber, E.W., Women's Work, The first 20,000 Years, Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (New York, 1994): 38, FIG.1.3 (DRAWING)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 403.38, 405
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 188.7
    British Museum, A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (2nd ed., London, 1920): 143, FIG.171
    Burke, B., From Minos to Midas, Ancient Cloth Production in the Aegean and in Anatolia (Oxford, 2010): 5, FIG.4 (BD)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 114
    Cameron, A. and Kuhrt, A. (eds.), Images of Women in Antiquity (London, 1983): 95, FIG.7.3
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 231
    Cohen, B. (ed.), The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 218-219, NO.60 (COLOUR OF BD AND UH)
    Gherchanoc, F. and Huet, V. (eds.), Vetements antiques, S'habiller, se deshabiller dans les mondes anciens (Arles, 2012): 156, FIG.9 (COLOUR OF BD)
    Giner, C.A., Tejido y cesteria en la Peninsula Iberica, Historia de su tecnia e industrias desde la prehistoria hasta la romanizacion (Madrid, 1984): 76, FIG.38 (DRAWING OF BD)
    Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen: 24 (1982) 18-21, FIGS.1-3, 27, 9-10
    Jenkins, I. et al., Defining Beauty, The Body in ancient Greece (London, 2015): 160, UNNUMBERED (COLOUR OF BD)
    Mertens, J., Attic White Ground, its development on shapes other than lekythoi (New York, 1977): PL.18.1
    Newton, C., The Castellani collection (London, 1874): PL.13
    Oakley, J., The Greek Vase, Art of the Story Teller (London, 2013): 118, FIG.18 (COLOUR OF BD)
    Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): PL.2 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
    Olmos, R. (ed.), Coloquio sobre el Puteal de la Moncloa, Estudios de Iconografia II (Madrid, 1986): 177, FIG.66 (DRAWING)
    Pedley, J.G., Greek Art and Archaeology (New Jersey, 1993): 269, FIG.8.45 ((COLOUR)
    Pedley, J.G., Greek Art and Archaeology. Fifth Edition (London, 2011): 282, FIG.8.49 (COLOUR OF BD)
    Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 98, FIG.98
    Schallin, A.-L. (ed.), Perspectives on ancient Greece, Papers in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Swedish Institute at Athens (Stockholm, 2013): 139, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF BD)
    Schaltenbrand Obrecht, V. et al., Stilus, Kulturhistorische, typologisch-chronologische und technologische Untersuchungen an römischen Schreibgriffeln von Augusta Raurica und weiteren Fundorten, Textband (Augst, 2012): 56, FIG.49 LEFT (DRAWING OF BD)
    Weiss, C. and Simon, E. (eds.), Folia in memoriam Ruth Lindner (Dettelbach, 2010): 125, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF BD)
    Wiegand, T., Bronzefigur einer Spinnerin im Antiquarium der Königlichen Museen (Berlin, 1913): 6
    di Vita, A., Da Siracusa a Mozia, Scritti di archeologia Siciliana (Padua, 1998): 174, FIG.6 (DRAWING OF BD)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4572
  • AVI Record Number: 4400
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1873-0820-304
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON D 13.
  • CAVI Lemma: WG OINOCHOE. FROM LOCRI EPIZEPHYRII. FOUNDRY PAINTER; BRYGOS PAINTER (D. WILLIAMS){1}. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: A WOMAN SPINNING.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: TO RIGHT OF THE DISTAFF, IN DARK BROWN: Hε παις καλε.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} BEAZLEY ATTRIBUTED THE POT TO THE FOUNDRY PAINTER, BUT WILLIAMS TO THE BRYGOS PAINTER, WITH ROBERTSON CONCURRING.
  • CAVI Comments: WILLIAMS CONNECTS THE INSCRIPTION WITH THE WOMAN (WHOM HE CONSIDERS A FREE WOMAN). HE COMPARES CAB. MéD., ARV[2] 624/81, Q.V., WITH THE INSCRIPTION φιλεργος [I THINK HE TAKES THIS AS AN ADJ.; I TAKE IT AS A NAME].
  • CAVI Number: 4400
  • AVI Bibliography: C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 394. — ARV[2] (1963), 403/38. — BOARDMAN (1975), FIG. 267. — D. WILLIAMS (1982), 18-21, FIGS. 1-3, 27, FIGS. 9-10. — ADD.[2] (1989), 231. — BARBER (1992), 105, FIG. 64. — ROBERTSON (1992), 98, FIG. 93.
  • 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/452369
  • Coordinates: 38.233589,16.263651
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 38.2262955,16.2443395
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Last updated 28/12/2025 04:08:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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