An Examination of a Unique White-Ground Lekythos from the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology
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Abstract
The University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology possesses a fifth-century bc Athenian white-ground lekythos , which has not, until now, received the scholarly attention it deserves. The scene on the lekythos depicts an unusual funerary offering, unprecedented in white-ground decoration. The colour scheme and iconography allude to the style of the famed Achilles Painter of the late fifth-century bc , but this attribution presents problems. This article examines the question of, and the evidence surrounding, the attribution of this lekythos with the aim of proving that this piece, regardless of whether it is ascribed to the fifth-century master, is a unique example in the corpus of white-ground lekythoi and a significant contribution to scholarship. Le Musée d’anthropologie de l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique possède un lécythe athénien à fond blanc du V e siècle avant J. C., qui, jusqu’à présent, n’avait pas reçu de la part des chercheurs l’attention qu’il méritait. La scène représentée sur le lécythe dépeint une offrande funéraire inhabituelle, sans précédent dans la décoration à fond blanc. Le modèle de couleur et d’iconographie évoque le style du célèbre Peintre d’Achille de la fin du V e siècle avant J. C., mais cette attribution pose problème. Cet article examine la question de, et les éléments de preuve concernant, l’attribution de ce lécythe, dans le but de prouver que cette pièce, quoi qu’il en soit de son assignation au maître du V e siècle, est un exemplaire unique dans le corpus des lécythes à fond blanc et une contribution significative à la recherche.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".