CAVI Lemma: RF Nolan amphora From Capua{1}. Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Achilles and Penthesilea. B: king with two women.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: on Achilles' shield: horizontally above the device (lion): Αχιλλευς. Under
the foot, Gr.: ΣΠΑ = σπαθαι, see Johnston (1979), 163/18F 3, Hackl (1909), 500.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} from S.ta Maria di Capua, Helbig's tomb III/1 (Beazley (1945)).
CAVI Comments: For the meaning of σπαθη see Johnston (1979), p. 230.
CAVI Number: 4549
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 207-208. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great
Britain 4 (1927), III H c, pl. 16,1a-c and 12,3. — Beazley (1945), 155. —
Bothmer (1957), 192/103, pl. 81,6 (A). — ARV[2] (1963), 1030/35. — Add.[2]
(1989), 317. — Matheson (1995), 355/P40, pl. 15A-B (A, detail of A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)