Munich 2421 (Vase)

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Collection:	Munich, Antikensammlungen
Summary:	Panel: Music lessonShoulder: Symposium of two hetairai
Ware:	Attic Red Figure
Painter:	Attributed to Phintias
Attributed By:	P. Hartwig
Context:	From Vulci
Date:	ca. 510 BC
Dimensions:	H. to rim 0.47 m; H. to handle 0.515 m.
Primary Citation:	ARV2, 23.7; Para, 323
Shape:	Hydria
Beazley Number:	200126
Region:	Etruria
Period:	Late Archaic

Decoration Description:

Panel: Music lesson. The main panel is framed on the bottom by a frieze of scrolls with alternating palmettes, at the sides by framed palmettes, and on the top by a maeander key. The music teacher is seated in an armchair on the right playing the lyre in a rather stiff posture. An older student, starting to grow a beard, sits on a stool with patterned pillow in front of him, also playing the lyre. A younger boy, wrapped tightly in a long mantle, stands between them and narrates a text. They are watched on the left by an older man leaning on a gnarled stick, his right hand resting on his hip. All figures are wearing red wreaths. Several red inscriptions identify the figures: behind the teacher is noted *S*m*i*k*u*d*o*s ("Smikydos"), in front of the seated student *E*u*d*u*m*i*d*e*s ("Eudymides"), in front of the young boy *T*l*e*m*p*o*m*e*n*o*s ("Tlempomenos"), in front of the bearded spectator is written [*D]*e*m*e*t*r*i*o*s ("Demetrios"), behind his back *n*a*i*z*w*n. Painted in red are also the knobs of the teacher's lyre, a ribbon decorating one of its arms, and the right wrist of the teacher. The muscles and the folds of the clothes are indicated in diluted brown varnish. The image shows few outline incisions and preliminary sketching.

Shoulder: The panel on the shoulder of the vessel extends to the same width as the image decorating the belly. It is a symposium scene with two reclining hetairai. Both women are bare breasted. Their muscles and the folds of their clothes are clearly incised. Both women are holding skyphoi. There is an inscription, *K*A*L*O*I ("[they are] beautiful"), retrograde to the left of the left woman, another, *S*O*I*T*E*H*D*I (?), between the two women, and a third, *E*U*Y*U*M*I*D*E*I ("Euthymides"), to the right of the right woman.

Inscriptions:

On Side A next to the warrior's helmet is inscribed in white *K*A*L*O*S, below it *K*A*L*E. In front of the old man's head is again written *K*A*L*O*S ("[he is] beautiful"), above the mother's head *K*A*L*E ("[she is] beautiful"). On the shoulder, *K*A*L*O*I ("[they are] beautiful") is inscribed retrograde to the left of the left woman. *S*O*I*T*E*N*D*I (?) is inscribed between the two women. To the right of the right most woman is inscribed *E*U*Y*U*M*I*D*E*I ("Euthymides").

Collection History: Collection Candelori.

Sources Used: CVA, Munich 20, 5, 41-42, pl. 222, 1, and 223, 1-2.

Other Bibliography: Lullies 1953, 10, 14f., 31, pls. 33-35; Marrou, Histoire de l' éducation dans l'antiquité; Richter 1958, 56.