Fragment of torus mouth, neck, and start of shoulder, part of body on each side. Neck glazed on inside. Glaze misfired reddish brown; abraded in places, especially on mouth and on Boreas. P.H. 0.14; diam. of mouth 0.155. N. Weil, BCH 86, 1962, pp. 83--85, figs. 12--14; W. R. Agard, Classical Journal 61, 1965, p. 242, fig. 2 (part of A); U. Kron, Phylenheroen, pp. 79--80, 257, cat. no. E 59; Becker, Formen attischer Peliken, p. 82, cat. no. 235; Kaempf-Dimitriadou, Liebe der Götter, p. 106, cat. no. 357; K. Neuser, Anemoi: Studien zur Darstellung der Winde und Windgottheiten in der Antike, Rome 1982, p. 62, cat. no. B 44; LIMC III, 1986, p. 136, no. 32, s.v. Boreas; LIMC IV, 1988, p. 938, no. 61, s.v. Erechtheus.

A, Boreas (wreathed head, upper body, wings) to right dressed in a chiton, pursuing Oreithyia (missing). B, Erechtheus (top of wreathed head, right hand with palm outward) seated to left and a woman (upper half) to right facing him, wearing a chiton and himation, a wreath around her head. The relative position of the two heads makes clear that Erechtheus is seated. Between the two is an olive tree. Above the figures on each side, a laurel wreath to right. Red: vine of Boreas' wreath; all of Erechtheus'.

For the subject of Boreus and Oreithyia, see LIMC III, 1986, pp. 133--142, s.v. Boreas (S. Kaempf-Dimitriadou); for the presence of Erechtheus in this scene, see LIMC IV, 1988, pp. 937--938, s.v. Erechtheus (U. Kron); also, Neuser, Anemoi, pp. 61--65, 77--87. The composition on each side of 36 was probably a simpler version of those on the pelike in the Villa Giulia signed by Hermonax (ARV2 485, 33; Paralip. 379, 33; Addenda 248). Beazley (ARV2 486, 34) suggested that the woman on Side B of 36 is either Herse or Aglauros, most likely on the strength of two representations of this subject where their names are inscribed, both by the Oreithyia Painter: Berlin 2165 (ARV2 496, 1; Paralip. 380, 1) and Munich 2345 (ARV2 496, 2; Paralip. 380, 2; Addenda 250; Reeder, Pandora, p. 40, figs. 2--3 and p. 75, fig. 2). Kron (Phylenheroen, p. 257, cat. no. E 59) simply calls her a companion of Oreithyia. The presence of the olive tree indicates that the representation on this side of the vase takes place on the Akropolis (Weil, p. 85; Kron, p. 81), and the position of Erechtheus' right hand with the palm outward suggests that he has already heard the bad news.

Hermonax (ARV1 318, 26; ARV2 486, 34; 1655; Paralip. 379, 34).