Decoration: Body: AJAX AND CASSANDRA, STATUE OF ATHENA (SHIELD DEVICE, CHARIOT BOX)
Last Recorded Collection: Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden: PC54
Previous Collections:
Canino, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino: 1775
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LEIDEN, RIJKSMUSEUM VAN OUDHEDEN 2, 33-34, FIG.45, PL.(176) 82.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates Davreux, J., La legende de la prophetesse Cassandre (Liege, 1943): PL.20. FIG.38 Holliday, P.J. (ed.), Narrative and Event in Ancient Art (Cambridge, 1993): 96, FIG.39 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.257, AIAS II 37 Roulez, J., Choix de vases peints du Musee d'Antiquites de Leiden (Ghent, 1854): PL.14.2 (DRAWING)
CAVI Lemma: BF oinochoe. From Vulci. Unattributed; Dot-Ivy Class (Vos). 530-520 (Vos).
CAVI Subject: Ajax pursuing Cassandra who is hiding by the statue of Athena.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: several rows of dots, the two principal ones being between Ajax's
feet and on Athena's right.
CAVI Comments: The two main rows `name' Ajax and Athena. It is unclear whether there are
also other, shorter, rows as the surface is not clean. One row may be above
Athena's shield and may refer to Cassandra who is hiding behind it.
CAVI Number: 4199
AVI Bibliography: Janssen (1843–8), II 1638, p. 157. — Roulez (1854), pl. 14,2 (dr.). —
Holwerda (1905), XVf 47, p. 75. — Davreux (1942), no. 69, fig. 38. — Brommer
(1960), 282/18. — M.F. Vos, CVA Leiden 2, Netherlands 4 (1978), pl. 82,1-3
(bibl.). — LIMC i (1981), pl. 257, Aias II/37. — Holliday (1993), 96, fig. 93.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
