Decoration: A: EROTIC, DRAPED YOUTH WITH SPEAR AND MAN BETWEEN DRAPED MEN, DOG B: EROTIC, YOUTH AND MAN WITH SPEAR BETWEEN DRAPED MEN WITH SPEARS, DOGS Shoulder: HERAKLES AND THE LION, HORSEMEN, MEN AND YOUTHS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), private
Previous Collections:
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
London, market, Sotheby's
Publication Record: Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987): 179, FIG.3B Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 127, FIG.78 (UH) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 51 (14-15.3.1975), PL.23, NO.123 (A, B, S, UNDER HANDLE) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 6 (A, B, UH, PART OF SH) Schnapp, A., Le chasseur et la cite, Chasse et erotique dans la Grece ancienne (Paris, 1997): 251, NO.183(A, B) Sotheby, sale catalogue: 13-14.7.1981, 108-109, NO.244 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 45-46, PLS.2.4, 3.4 (B, UH)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Unattributed; Botkin Class{1}. Third quarter sixth. Ca. 540
(Cahn).
CAVI Subject: Neck: A, B, each: Heracles and the Lion, between numerous figures. Body:
love-making: A: bearded man stroking a youth (ορχιπεδιζων) between two men; dog.
A similar pair is embracing between two men; two dogs.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: neck: A and B: numerous short nonsense inscriptions. Text gives:
εν. κεμ. κκμ. ικευ. Body: A: to left of (behind) the lover's head: εκευνοι{2}.
B: to right of (behind) the youth's head: εκεν. Under the foot, Gr.: six
parallel lines{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} workshop of the Phrynos Painter. {2} so Auktion's text; the photo seems
to show something different but the letters are too small to be sure. {3} see
Johnston (1979).
CAVI Number: 2095
AVI Bibliography: M&M-Auction (1975), pl. 23/123. — Johnston (1979), 30 and 207.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
