Decoration: Body: HERAKLES CARRYING ENTABLATURE WITH MOON AND STARS (HEAVENS), ATLAS WITH APPLES, BOW, QUIVER AND CLUB SUSPENDED, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: CC957
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: 1132
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 522 Boardman, J., Athenian Black Figure Vases (London, 1974): FIG.252.1, 2 Brommer, F., Heracles, The Twelve Labors of the Hero in Ancient Art and Literature (Translation, New York, 1986): PL.42 (PART) Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 38, FIG.17 (BD) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 256.50, 150, 155, PL.47.3 Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.25.107 (PART) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 115 (2000) 68, FIG.6 (PARTS) Tsangari, D. (ed.), The Europe of Greece. Colonies and Coins from the Alpha Bank Collection (Athens, 2014): 50-51, NO.16 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Wünsche, R. (ed.), Herakles, Herkules, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2003): 160, FIG.21.5A-B (BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS. FROM ERETRIA. ATHENA PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: HERACLES AND ATLAS.
CAVI Inscriptions: IN THE FIELD, IMITATION LETTERS. THE LETTERS FREELY STREWN ABOUT IN THE
FIELD. MOSTLY THREE-STROKE SIGMA BUT ONCE FOUR-STROKE, REVERSED; ALSO ATTIC
LAMBDA TILTED BACKWARD, AND TWICE TWO DOTS. [THIS DIFFERS FROM OTHER
INSCRIPTIONS BY THIS PAINTER.]
