Inscriptions: Inscription: CHAIRE SU Inscription: KALOS HO PAIS Named: HERAKLES, HERMES
Attributed To: DOT-BAND CLASS by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: HERMES FLYING WITH INFANT HERAKLES, BOTH NAMED, INSCRIPTION B: CHIRON WITH TREE WITH BIRDS AND HARES, DOG
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: 1615
Previous Collections:
Munich, Antikensammlungen: 1615A
Munich, Antikensammlungen: J611
Publication Record: Albersmeier, S. (ed.), Heroes, Mortals and Myths in ancient Greece (Baltimore, 2009): 69, FIG.34 (PART OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 484.6 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 221 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 122 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNCHEN, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN EHEMALS MUSEUM ANTIKER KLEINKUNST 9, 39-40, BEILAGE F2, PLS.(2326,2328,2331) 29.3, 31.1-2, 34.3 View Whole CVA Plates Domenici, I., Etruscae Fabulae, mito e rappresentazione (Rome, 2009): FIG.14A (DRAWING OF A AND B) Knauss, F.S. (ed.), Die unsterblichen Götter Griechenlands, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München (Munich, 2012): 161, FIG.11.11 (COLOUR OF PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, 832, HERAKLES 1665 (DRAWING OF A AND B) Reschke, E., Die Ringer des Euthymides (Stuttgart, 1990): PL.3.1 (A) Schefold, K., Der religiöse Gehalt der antiken Kunst und die Offenbarung (Mainz, 1998): 223, FIG.63 (A) Schnapp, A., Le chasseur et la cite, Chasse et erotique dans la Grece ancienne (Paris, 1997): 444, no.536 (A, B) Stark, M., Göttliche Kinder, Ikonographische Untersuchung zu den Darstellungskonzeptionen von Gott und Kind bzw. Gott und Mensch in der griechischen Kunst (Stuttgart, 2012): PL.24A (A) Wünsche, R. (ed.), Herakles, Herkules, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2003): 21, FIG.2.1, 38-39, FIGS.3.1-2, 398, CAT.1 (A, B, COLOUR OF A AND B AND PART OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From Vulci. Unattributed; Dot-Band Class. Late sixth or
early fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Hermes flying with the infant Heracles. B: the centaur Chiron with game
and a dog, returning from the hunt and greeting [Hermes].
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to Hermes' left, facing him: hερμες, retr. Around the baby Heracles' head,
in much smaller letters, curving around the head: hερακλες. Under Hermes' feet:
χαιρε συ. On Hermes' right, not facing him: καλος hο παις{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} there is a very slight gap after καλος.
CAVI Comments: The inscriptions recall red-figure; those on A can be interpreted as part of
a story: Hermes brings the child Heracles to Chiron who, returning from the
hunt, greets him. Hermes says: χαιρε συ. Heracles is the pais kalos. This
despite the position of some of the inscriptions and the fact that Chiron does
not face left.
CAVI Number: 5186
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — ABV (1956), 484/6. — Para. (1971), 221. — E. Kunze-Götte, CVA Munich
9, Germany 48 (1982), pls. 29,3, 31,3, and 34,3, Beilage F 2 (bibl.). — Add.[2]
(1989), 122.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
