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Disk·like knob .....ith horizontal grOO\-C along lo\\,cr edge.
crowned b)' conical member and supponed by stem s.... elling
lowards apex. Slightly domed lid. Box: shalloy. COnC3\"C cunc 10
.... all.. wilh projecting lo.....er keel. Tall foot with three squared
nUlches. Lid: egg pattern. panther and swan confronted. swan and
panther confronted. lion left. egg and dot. cr. animal slyle to lid
of Oxford 1934.330 (see footnole 9). Bottom: small central circle.
circle. band.
Black moulding. reserved band above frieze: bt'ic,JW: reserved
line, egg and dot between black lines.
Red·ligure. chain of Ii\C .... OO1el1 dancing rightward led by a
.....oman playing [he double nute. Altar between fourth and fifth
.....oman.
Late 5th·early 4th century 8.C.
The vases listed above are clearly dependent in their shape on
the tradition of the Penthesilea Workshop 11. They are of
Slandard size with a long body wh~ shallow concave curve \'aries
in degree and in some approaches the cylinder, The lall resen'cd
Iripartite foot echoes the contour of the wall and has the
characteristic rounded or squared notches. These pyxides might
y,ell ha\'e been appended to those of the Penthesilea Workshop 11
except for the formation of ~nain of the lids which show the
influence of t~ of type C (nos. I. 4, 6-7). The painters are not
connected with the Penthesilea Workshop: the shape has now
become common property.
Athens 13676a (no. t. PI. 69,2), by the Painler of Alhens 1585, is
the key piece preserved almost intact but for the crowning knob.
The surface of the lid is slightly domed with a ridge articulating
the juncture with the outer rim, The lid is decorated with egg and
dot borders flanking a graceful black ivy wreath. The ivy pattern
is new and unparalleled on lids of type A but an almost exact
counterpart may be seen on a fragmentary lid of a miniature
p)Xis t}pe C from the Athenian Agora (P 13097. 1'1. 72.2).1 Here
the h'y leaves are red with stem. tendrils and berries in added
day. The wreath is enframed by narrow bands of egg and dol
pallern as on Athens 1.3676.
The foot profile is distincthe, its conca\'e cun"e being
interrupted by a step below the apex. Athens 1585 and Ceramicus
OIS 89) hne an identical foot profile. This is a variant on the
usual profile of the Penthcsilea Workshop occurring earlier on
Athens Agura P 24253 (Fig. Se) by the Veii Painter' and also on
Cambridge 4.1943 by the Curtius Painter. J
The shape of Athens 13676a is mirrored by that of Athens 1585
tno. 2. PI. 69.1 and Fig. lib). the name-piece of the painter. The:'
lid unfortunately is missing but the measurements as well as the
prolilt.~ are very close. The egg and dot border below the frieze is
identical. It seems eenain that the same potter produced both
~asc~,
SUlllcwhal earlier than tht.'Se is a pyxis in the Ceramicus (no. 3.
Fig. lie) found with a hydrill attributed to the eariy work of the
Meidias Painter. a pair of lebetes gamikoi by the Washing
Painter. a patterned pyxis type B and other \'ases in an offering
tr~neh dated 10 the years around 420 B.C.~ The concave cun'e of
the y, ails is more pronounttd than in nos. I and 2 and resembles
more closely Ihat of LOIn're LP 2692 (PI. 42). from the Penthesilea
Wurhhup 11. The disk knob on a high slender stem whose base is
dirrcr~ntiated from the Ic\'el of the lid is familiar in a number of
examples from the Pcnthesilea Workshop (PIs. 22 and 2(».s The
lout profile is like that of nos. I and 2. The cuntour of the side of
the lid is unusual and 1 have yet to find a c1O!1oe parallel among
pyxides of types A and C: that of the fragmentary double PYXls.
Athens Agora P 16924 (PI. 75.2) and also the fragmentary pyxis lid.
type C. P 96.' 3re somewhat similar.
London E 780 (no. 4. PI. 70) and Cambridge 168 (no. S, PI. 72.3)
arc ascribed to the Painter of Florence 4217 who is also known to
ha~e decurated a few pyxides of type B.' The lid of the Cambridge
pp:is has a disk knob on a tall slender stem which blends into the
sloping surface of the lid. characteristics typical uf mediocre work
uf the Pcnthesilea Workshop. The lid of no. 4 resembles that of 110.
I (Athens 13676a. PI. 69.2), There was a central knob (now broken
ay,ay). and then a slightly domed section separated from the outer
rim by a ridge-the two latter features borrowed from lids of type
C. The contour of the side of the lid does not continue the line of