Decoration: A: ILIOUPERSIS, AINEIAS CARRYING ANCHISES BETWEEN ARCHER AND WOMAN (APHRODITE ?) B: WOMAN BETWEEN WARRIORS (AKAMAS AND DEMOPHON LEADING AITHRA ?)
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B173
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.He.9, PL.(165) 45.1A-B View Whole CVA Plates Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.332, AITHRA I 61 (A) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Unattributed. Late sixth. Ca. 530 (Shapiro).
CAVI Subject: A: Departure of Aeneas from Troy. B: Akamas and Demophon conducting Aithra.
CAVI Inscriptions: On Demophon's shield, which is seen from the side, large white letters on BG
ground: ΑΘΕ.
CAVI Comments: For Αθε(ναιοι). Old-fashioned letters. Cartwheel theta. Shapiro: this is the
earliest depiction of the Aithra episode which is from the Iliupersis.
CAVI Number: 4248
AVI Bibliography: H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great Britain 4 (1927), III H e, pl. 45,1a-b
(bibl.). — LIMC i (1981), Aithra 61. — Shapiro (1989), 148 n. 49. — AttScr
(1990), no. 944.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
