From Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Greece, facsicule 2: III I d, pl. 19, 2-4
Athens, National Museum 1241
red-figure pyxis
not listed in ARV(2), see Immerwahr (1964), p.29.
About 430 bce.
Apollo and eight Muses; a column indicates a building. One muse is seated tuning her lyre; a companion faces her holding an open role in low position, on which writing is indicated by white dots. These dots are arranged in two columns in such a way that we see the greater part of a column on the left portion of the roll, and the beginning of the second column, still covered mostly by the rolled part, on the right. The dots are roughly stoichedon except for the margin of the second column: this may indicate irregular length of lines.
(Paraphrased from Immerwahr: 1964, p.29)
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