Attributed To:Near HECTOR P by BEAZLEY Near PELEUS P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, AMAZON IN PATTERNED SUIT (NAMED) ON HORSEBACK WITH SPEAR, BOW, QUIVER AND PELTA, THESEUS (NAMED) WITH SPEAR AND SHIELD, WARRIOR WITH SPEAR AND SHIELD (NAMED, PHORBAS), ROCK B: WOMEN, DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE
Last Recorded Collection: St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: B769
Previous Collections:
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: 1600
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: ST1680
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1037.3 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 396.4 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 517 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 319 Compte rendu de la Commission Impériale Archéologique (St. Petersburg, 1860-83): 1866, PL.6 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.658, PHORBAS I 14 (PART OF A) Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): VIII, PL.44 (A) Waldhauer, O., Anticnija raspisnija Vazi w Imperatorskom Ermitazje (St. Petersburg, 1914): FIG.17 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. From Cerveteri. Near Peleus Painter and Hector Painter.
Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Phorbas; Theseus charging; an Amazon on horseback. B: a king between two
women.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Phorbas' helmet crest: Φορβα[ς]{1}. In the same position:
(Θ)εσευς{2}. To right of the Amazon's head: Μελοσα{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} my reading from a photo.; Bothmer has Φορβας. The facs. in KAV shows a
very odd phi (a triangle with a projecting vertical through it). {2} according
to KAV's facs., the theta has the dot at 4 o'clock just outside the circle. {3}
Matheson prints ΜΕΛΥΣΑ, which must be a misprint. For the name see New York
44.11.1 (a woman's name) and Vatican, Astarita 701 (maenad).