Decoration: A: HERA, IRIS, LION B: HERAKLES AND THE LION, ATHENA
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: X21.15
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: GR523
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 20 (1916), 441, FIG.5 (B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 4, 65, PL.(778) 50.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 239.138 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.490, IRIS I 70 (A) Richter, G. & Milne, M., Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases (New York, 1935): FIG.17 (B) Studi Etruschi: 77 (2014) PL.6A AND B (A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Diosphos Painter. Ca. 500 (Bothmer).
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and the Nemean Lion, with Athena; betweeen them, upright, the
club. B: Hera sending out Iris, with the Nemean Lion (M. Milne){1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: to right of Athena's head: 5 imitation letters: υχυχι{2}. To
left of the club: χιχχχεχ (retr.?){3}. B: curving around the lion's head: 8
imitation letters: ιιχχχυυυ, retr. To right of Iris' left thigh: 5 letters:
χχχλχ.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} this should be A. {2} very tiny letters. {3} so the ph. and CVA, text;
the epsilon is large and very clear.
CAVI Comments: = X.21.15. A small vase.
CAVI Number: 5739
AVI Bibliography: Luce (1916), 440 ff., fig. 5. — V.Pol. (1928), 4. — Richter–Milne (1935),
fig. 17. — Haspels (1936), 239/138. — M.B. Moore and D. von Bothmer, CVA New
York 4, USA 16 (1976), pl. 50,1-2 (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
