Decoration: FIGHT, AINEIAS (NAMED) AND ACHILLES OR DIOMEDES BETWEEN THETIS AND APHRODITE, YOUTH, HORSES (BIGA ?), DEVICE, THUNDERBOLT
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.646
Publication Record: Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 1 (Berlin, 1925): PL.42.646 Knittlmayer, B., Die Attische Demokratie und ihre Helden, Darstellungen des trojanischen Sagenkreises im 6. und frühen 5. Jh.v.Chr. (Heidelberg, 1997): PL.11.2 (DRAWING) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 98, FIG.71 (DRAWING) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.298, AINEIAS 33 (DRAWING) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 101, FIG.54 (DRAWING) Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 155, FIG.71 Smith, A.C. and Pickup, S. (eds.), Brill's Companion to Aphrodite (Leiden, 2010): 208, FIG.10.4 (DRAWING)
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of amphora{1}. From Athens. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: combat of Diomedes and Aeneas, with Athena and Aphrodite{2}. B: some frs.
are apparently from a different scene (Graef).
CAVI Inscriptions: Fr. a: outstretched arm with shield: to right of the shield: [Διομεδε]ς(3)?
Warrior: to left of his lower legs: Αινεας, retr. B: fr. c: legs of two to left;
between them: [---]αλες, retr. Fr. d: between two groups of figures: [---]ος.
Fr. e: part of same; between two groups: [---]ε̣λος{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} `Kolonetten-amphora' (Graef). {2} so Beazley after Robert and Friis
Johansen. Graef thinks, probably the duel of Aeneas and Achilles with their
mothers looking on. {3} My restoration; Graef restores [Αχιλ[λ]ευ]ς, perhaps
after Robert. {4} or [---]ε̣υος.
CAVI Comments: Frs. a-g. The scene is from Iliad 5.
CAVI Number: 0982
AVI Bibliography: BADB 7029. — C. Robert (1901), 387. — Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, no. 646,
pl. 42. — Bulas (1929), 35-36. — CB (1931–63), ii, 17 and 19. — Friis Johansen
(1934), 103-104, fig. 34 (after Graef–Langlotz). — LIMC i (1981), pl. 298,
Aineias 33 (dr.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
