Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, AMAZON IN PATTERNED SUIT WITH BOW, QUIVER AND SWORD, THESEUS (NAMED) WITH SPEAR AND SHIELD, GREEK IN PILOS AND CHLAMYS WITH SPEAR B: DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH STAFF, BAG SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional: L170
Previous Collections:
Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional: 11013
Publication Record: Archivo Espanol de Arqueologia: 87 (2014), 44, FIG.5 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1054.51 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MADRID, MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL 2, IIIIC.8-9, PL.(74) 17.2A-B View Whole CVA Plates
CAVI Lemma: RF bell krater. Group of Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Theseus, followed by a companion, attacks an Amazon. B: three youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Theseus' head: Θεσευς{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Bothmer shows the first sigma as three-stoke and reversed, but the photo
does not confirm this. Leroux also has the first sigma of this shape; his ph.
too is not clear on the point.
CAVI Number: 4890
AVI Bibliography: Photos. — Leroux (1912), 94/170, pl. 22, right (A, shows inscription). — J.R.
Mélida, CVA Madrid 2, Spain 2 (1944), pl. 17,2. — Bothmer (1957), 186/92. —
ARV[2] (1963), 1054/51. — ARV[2] (1963), 1054/51. — Matheson (1995), 458/PGU61
(not ill.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
