Vase Catalog Number: Mississippi 1977.3.98

Decoration:

The vase has a tongue pattern on the rim, and an egg-and-dart pattern on the neck. Below the figures is a meander and cross pattern. In the figural scene are two women. On the far left is a klismos, or chair with curved legs, seen from the side. In front of it is a woman wearing a broad fillet in her hair, and a chiton and himation. Her arms, covered by the himation, are raised to greet the woman on the right. This woman stands with body frontal but her head in left profile. She is dressed similarly to the first woman, and holds a wide band in her right hand. Between them is the inscription KALE KLETAGORA ("Kleitagora is beautiful").

Kleitagora may have been an historical personage, perhaps an hetaira (Robinson, 22).

Inscriptions:

KALE KLETAGORA ("Kleitagora is beautiful").

Collection History:

Formerly in the Hope collection, 102b. Sold at Sotheby's 14 Feb. 1955, no. 95 in Catalogue. Sold by Spink and Co. to D.M. Robinson. In the Robinson Collection, Harvard inv. 206. Gift of Helen Tudor Robinson, 1960.

Condition:

Almost perfect condition

Sources Used:

D.M. Robinson "Unpublished Greek Vases in the Robinson Collection" AJA 60 (1956) 21-22, pl. 16, fig. 73

Other Bibliography:

Tillyard 1923, pl. 15, 111

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