Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, HERAKLES AND AMAZONS, ONE FALLING, DEVICES, DISCS, HEADS OF PANTHERS B: FIGHT, DRAPED MAN BETWEEN WARRIORS, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICE, THUNDERBOLT, ROSETTE
Last Recorded Collection: University (MS), University of Mississippi, University Museums: 1977.3.57
CAVI Collection: MISSISSIPPI, UNIVERSITY 1977.3.57.
CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. FROM ATTICA (CVA). ANTIMENES PAINTER. LAST QUARTER SIXTH.
PHASE 2: 520-515 (BUROW).
CAVI Subject: A: HERACLES AND THE AMAZONS. B: FIGHT: TWO WARRIORS PARTED BY A MAN.
CAVI Inscriptions: UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: νεος [[νε LIG.]].
CAVI Comments: EX BALTIMORE, D.M. ROBINSON. THE SAME WORD IS FOUND ON BOSTON 01.8058 AND
COPENHAGEN, NY CARLSBERG 2654, QQ.VV. THE READING HERE IS JOHNSTON'S, WHO SAYS
THAT THE WORD IS "A COMMON WAY OF DENOTING A PLASTER FOOT." I DO NOT KNOW THE
MEANING OF THIS REMARK. NOTE THE LIGATURE OF NU AND EPSILON. THREE-STROKE SIGMA
REVERSED. – CORRECTION: THE GRAFFITO, WHICH OCCURS ALSO ON 2713, BOSTON 01.8058,
AND 3260, COPENHAGEN, NY CARLSBERG 2654, IS MODERN. A.W. JOHNSTON, TRADEMARKS ON
GREEK VASES, ADDENDA (2006) 67 CITES BEAZLEY, IN JHS 54 (1934) 89 (A QUOTE THAT
HAD ESCAPED ME) WHO SAYS A PROPOS OF THE GRAFFITO νεος ON THIS VASE: "THIS MAY
BE AN ANCIENT GRAFFITO – νέος IS UNDOUBTEDLY A GREEK WORD; BUT I THINK I OUGHT
TO POINT OUT THAT MR. W.H. YOUNG HAS A PRETTY FANCY OF INSCRIBING νέος ON THE
VASES HE RESTORES, AND I HAPPEN TO REMEMBER THAT THIS VASE PASSED THROUGH HIS
HANDS." THUS DESPITE THE FACT THAT THE LETTER FORMS ARE NOT EXACTLY THE SAME IN
THE THREE INSCRIPTIONS (5104 HAS A LIGATURE OF N AND E AND THE SIGMA IS
REVERSED; ON 3260 SIGMA IS OF SHAPE S 6 IN THE CHART, P. XXIII OF ATTIC SCRIPT;
2713 IS THE NEATEST) BEAZLEY'S RECOLLECTION CANNOT BE IGNORED.
CAVI Number: 5104
AVI Bibliography: D.M. ROBINSON, CVA ROBINSON 1, USA 4 (1934), PLS. 28-29 AND 30,3. — ABV
(1956), 269/36. — JOHNSTON (1979), P. 59, CHAPTER 3 N. 1. — BUROW (1989), 88/75,
PLS. 75 AND 160,D (MISPRINTED AS B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
