21189, ATHENIAN, Baltimore (MD), Walters Art Gallery, 48.82

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Vase Number: 21189
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Shape Name: PYXIS
Date: -400 to -300
Decoration: Lid: HEAD OF DOG
Current Collection: Baltimore (MD), Walters Art Gallery: 48.82
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BALTIMORE, WALTERS ART GALLERY 1, 19-40, FIG.12.2, PL.(1453) 41.3-6 View Whole CVA Plates
Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 74, FIG.4 (PARTS)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2072
AVI Record Number: 1941
CAVI Collection: Baltimore, Walters 48.82.
CAVI Lemma: BG pyxis with RF lid. Unattributed. Ca. 350 (Oakley).
CAVI Subject: Lid: top: upper part of a dog. Body: BG.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the bottom of the base and the underside of the lid, Gr.: NΖ.
CAVI Comments: To fit the lid to the body of the pyxis. Oakley, p. 40 gives seven other examples. Johnston, by letter, suggests that nu-zeta may stand for 57, either the number of pots in the kiln or the place in a series. - Close to the pyxis Boston 96.679a-b which has similar Grr.; cf. Bothmer (1981), 354. The basic list is in Johnston (1979), 180-81.
CAVI Number: 1941
AVI Bibliography: Sparkes–Talcott (1970), 178 n. 38/1. — Johnston (1979), 180/subs. list 4/9. — J.H. Oakley, CVA Baltimore 1, USA 28 (1992), pl. 41,3-6, fig. 12,2, p. 40 (facss.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

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