CAVI Lemma: FR. OF RF CUP. FROM MARSEILLE. UNATTRIBUTED{1}. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A: THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES: AT LEFT, A GREAVE HELD BY A LOST FIGURE; IN THE
MIDDLE, THE UPPER PART OF AN ARMED AND BEARDED WARRIOR, WITH TRACES OF A CHARIOT
TO LEFT(2); AT RIGHT, A HAND HOLDING TWO SPEARS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO LEFT OF THE BACK OF THE CENTRAL WARRIOR'S HEAD: [Πολυ]νεικες{3}. TO
RIGHT OF THE SAME WARRIOR'S FACE: Α[ν]φ^ια[ρεος]{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} COMPARED TO THE PAINTER OF THE OXFORD BRYGOS. {2} SO TIVERIOS. {3} THE NU
IS NOT VISIBLE IN THE PHOTO. {4} THE SPEARS INTERVENE.
CAVI Comments: POLYNEICES IS PROBABLY THE FIGURE HOLDING THE GREAVE, WHILE AMPHIARAUS IS THE
BEARDED WARRIOR; BUT SEE THE FURTHER DISCUSSION BY TIVERIOS. VASSEUR INTERPRETED
THE SCENE AS BRINGING IN THE BODY OF POLYNEICES.
CAVI Number: 5074
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — VASSEUR (1914), 90FF., PL. 13, 8-10. — ARV[2] (1963), 400. —
TIVERIOS (1981), 156 AND N. 66, *158-59, PL. 46,2 (SHOWS INSCRIPTIONS). —
ADD.[2] (1989), 230.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
