CAVI Collection: Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina 3089.
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. From Spina. Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 440.
CAVI Subject: A: two Amazons on horseback; between them, another Amazon. B: two women
fleeing to a man.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: the left Amazon on horseback: hιππομαχε. Amazon on foot: Πεσιανασ[σ]α. The
right Amazon on horseback: Δολοπε. B: between the two figures: καλος. Under the
foot, Gr.: complex ligature: ΑΔΕ [[lig.]] or ΡΔΕ [[lig.]] plus three unit
strokes, two short and one long{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Nsc.; Johnston (1979), does not give a precise reading.
CAVI Comments: = T 411. Peisianassa: Beazley in AJA refers to the Peisianakteion = the Stoa
Poikile. Bothmer in `Amazons' cites the expulsion of Dolopians from Skyros when
the bones of Theseus were brought to Athens and the Theseum was built. The
Amazons on this vase are inspired by paintings in the Stoa Poikile and the
Theseum.
CAVI Number: 3480
AVI Bibliography: Corte (1927), 12, pl. 20 (A). — Beazley (1929a), 366/10. — Aurigemma (1935),
236, pl. 127. — Bothmer (1957), 198/132, pl. 83,7. — ARV[2] (1963), 1029/21. —
Para. (1971), 442. — Johnston (1979), 39 and 59 (n. 5 of ch. 4). — Add.[2]
(1989), 317. — Matheson (1995), 351/P23, pl. 51A-B (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
