Inscriptions: Kalos/Kale: LEAGROS LEAGROS Speech: IDOU CHELIDON. NE TON HERAKLEA. HAUTAI EAR EDE
Attributed To:Perhaps PIONEER GROUP by BEAZLEY EUPHRONIOS by UNKNOWN
Decoration: A: SWALLOW, MAN WITH STAFF AND YOUTH, BOTH DRAPED AND SEATED ON STOOLS, YOUTH B: ATHLETES WRESTLING
Last Recorded Collection: St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: 615
Previous Collections:
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: 8057
St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: 2352
Publication Record: American Journal of Philology: 131 (2010) 575, 579 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1927, 72, BEIL.1-2 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1594.48 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 17.9 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 60.8 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 507 Bielfeldt, R. (ed.), Ding und Mensch in der Antike. Gegenwart und Vergegenwärtigung (Heidelberg, 2014): 330, FIG.15 (DRAWING OF B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 389 Jacobsthal, P., Ornamente Griechischer Vasen (Berlin, 1927): 190 (PART) Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): 2, PL.24 Morais, R., Centeno, R., and Freitas Ferreira, D. (eds.), Myths, Gods and Heroes. Greek Vases in Portugal – Mitos, Deuses e Heróis. Vasos Gregos em Portugal (Porto, 2022): II, 245, FIG.9 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF A) Neer, R.T., Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting, The Craft of Democracy, ca.530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002): 63, FIG.27 (A) Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 16 (1987) 107-108, PLS.1-2 (A, DRAWING OF A) Schmidt, S. and Tsingarida, A. (eds.), Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Belgique, Supplément 1. The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum 1922-2022, A Century of Exploring Greek Vases: Typologies, Readings and Debates (Contents), CVA Belgique (Brussels, 2024): 308, FIG.4 (DRAWING OF A) Small, J.P., The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text (Cambridge, 2003): 11, FIG.1 (A) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: VIII, PL.45, CAT.86 (A) Valavanis, P. and Manakidou, E., Egraphsen kai epoiesen. Essays on Greek Pottery and Iconography in Honour of Professor Michalis Tiverios (Thessaloniki, 2014): 192, FIG.1 (DRAWING OF A) Waldhauer, O., Imperatorskii Ermitazh. Kratkoe opisanie sobraniya antichnikh raspisnikh Vaz (St. Petersburg, 1914): PL.3 Zwierlein-Diehl, E., Helena und Xenophon, Ein archäologisches Kinderbuch (Mainz, 1974): 20 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Vulci. Unattributed Pioneer{1}. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: A: the first swallow: a youth, a man and a boy pointing at a swallow flying
overhead. B: wrestlers.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: the youth: ἰδοῦ [[correct: ἰδ]], χελιδόν. The man: νὲ τὸν hερακλέα. The
boy: hαυτεΐ retr. In the field: ἔαρ ἔδε. B: hο πα[ι]ς καλος, | Λεαγρος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "Might be counted as belonging to the Pioneer Group." ARV[2]. So also
Bothmer (1951), 47. In ARV[1] 17/9, the vase had been attributed to Euphronios.
CAVI Comments: = inv. 2352. A conversation: the three ages: an erotic scene. I take the
sayings to be in prose.
