Decoration: A: HERAKLES (WITHOUT LION SKIN) WITH BOAR, AND EURYSTHEUS, IN PITHOS, YOUTH, OLD MAN, ATHENA, DEVICE, FLOWER B: MEN, ONE WITH SICKLE (?) ONE WITH SWORD OR CLUB ATTACKING THE CHIMAERA, DRAPED YOUTH, CLOTH SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B162
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 306.29 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 81 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.He.5, PL.(148) 28.2A-C View Whole CVA Plates Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 883, NO.1303 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.232, HERMES 420A (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.63, HERAKLES 2122 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Swing Painter. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Eurystheus, with Athena and an old man. B: a man attacking
the Chimera{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: between the man and Heracles' back, high above the scene, in a
straight horizontal line: 9 dots (getting thicker from left to right).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Beazley; Heracles(?), CVA.
CAVI Comments: = 1843.11-3.64.
CAVI Number: 4245
AVI Bibliography: Luce (1924), 317, and 323/88. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great Britain 4
(1927), III H e, pl. 28,2a-c. — ABV (1956), 306/29. — Böhr (1982), 39, 80/20,
pl. 23 (A, B) (bibl.). — Add.[2] (1989), 81.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)