Main panel: standing woman, upper half

Main panel: object behind standing woman

Overview: handle rear

Main panel: standing woman with baby

Main panel: baby and inscription

Main panel: seated woman

Collection: Berlin, Antikenmuseen
Summary: Mother seated, and maid with baby.
Ware: Attic Red Figure, White Ground
Painter: Attributed to the Achilles Painter
Context: From Pikrodaphni/Attica
Date: ca. 460 BC - ca. 450 BC
Dimensions:

H. 36.9 cm., d. 11.1 cm.
Primary Citation: ARV2, 995.118; Para, 438; Beazley Addenda 2, 312
Shape: Lekythos
Beazley Number: 213940
Region: Attica
Period: Early Classical

Condition:

The vase is in fairly good condition. The surface has suffered wear, and has lost most of the added colors.

Decoration Description:

Mother seated, and maid with baby. On the right a woman sits on a klismos (chair) facing left, her arms open to receive a small boy which a standing woman hands to her. The seated woman wears a chiton and a black himation with red design. Her hair is bound with a wide, red band. Over her head hang two small oil jugs and a mirror. The standing woman on the left wears a girdled chiton or a peplos, and has her hair held up with a red band. The boy is naked. An amulet band lies on his upper body.

Inscriptions:

Over the head of the boy is an inscription: *D*R*O*M*I*P*P*O*S *K*A*L*O*S *D*R*O*M*O*K*L*E*I*D*O, Dromippos is beautiful, Dromokleido.

Sources Used:

CVA, Germany 62, Berlin 8: pl. 9.3-5, 10.1, 11.4-5, Beilage 6.2

Other Bibliography:

JHS 16, pl. 7; Riezler pl. 2; Schuchhardt and Technau 296; G.V.Celle 34; Greifenhagen A.K. pl. 73; Greifenhagen A.K.2 81; BICS 19 (1972) pl. 3e; Felton Thanatos und Kleophon 85, fig. 1, 99, fig. 3; JHS 100 (1980) pl. 2b; Kurtz 1975, pl. 35.1; Hyatt Greek Vase fig. 94; Gehrig et al. Führer, pl. 90; Rühfel Kind 109, fig. 43; Walter Frau 43, fig. 38; Wehgartner Grabbild 23, fig. 17; Keuls 1985, 141, fig. 123; Boardman 1989, fig. 261.