CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF bell krater. From Camiros. Close to Hephaistos Painter (Later
Mannerists I, iv). Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Fight, with Persians: face and left arm of a Persian (with a moustache)
fleeing.
CAVI Inscriptions: Above the raised arm, Gr.: Αρτοβα[ζανης].
CAVI Comments: Artobazanes was the oldest son of Darius, from his first wife, a daughter of
Gobryas: Hdt. 7,2-3; he unsuccessfully contested the royal succession with
Xerxes. Williams: Hölscher suggests that the fr. shows the murder of Xerxes by
Artabanos (cf. Schauenburg (1975), 106), but that is impossible as the Persian
is only defending himself, not slashing down at anyone: the inscription must be
horizontal. It is incised and Williams thinks it is probably not ancient. False?
CAVI Number: 4662
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 384. — ARV[2] (1963), 1117/2. — T.
Hölscher (1973), 48f., pl. 4,2. — D. Williams (1986), 80 n. 19.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
