Decoration: A,B: AMAZONS IN PATTERNED SUITS, WITH SPEARS, SHIELD, SCYTHIAN OR PERSIAN CAP, BOWS AND PICK, DEVICE, LION I: AMAZONS, ONE WITH PICK, SHIELD, DEVICE, WREATH
Last Recorded Collection: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 81324
Previous Collections:
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: M1135
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: H2613
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1252.50 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.236 (I) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 92, FIG.62 (A, B, UH) Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): 83, FIG.24D (PROFILE), PLS.42-3, NO.41
CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. FROM NOLA. ERETRIA PAINTER. 430-420.
CAVI Subject: INT.: TWO AMAZONS: AN ARCHER AND A HOPLITE. A: FIVE AMAZONS. B: SIMILAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: BOTHMER (P. 203): "SAID TO BE INSCRIBED: Χρυσις. Ανδρομαχε καλε. καλε.
Ιππολυτε καλε, BUT I SAW NO TRACE OF THE INSCRIPTIONS." IDEM, P. 204: "AS
MENTIONED ABOVE, I SAW NO TRACE OF THE INSCRIPTIONS, BUT THE CUP IS IN WANT OF
CLEANING." HEYDEMANN: A: Χρυσις. Ανδρομ[α]χε. καλε. B: καλε. Ιππολυτε. καλε.
L.-H.: A: Χ----. "RESTE VON NAMEN." καλε. B: "RESTE VON NAMEN." ---π----ε.
CAVI Comments: = 2613. THE SURFACE MUST HAVE SUFFERED SINCE HEYDEMANN. HIS READINGS MUST BE
ACCEPTED. L.-H. 155: SOME NAMES ARE NOT TRUE AMAZON NAMES: CHRYSIS. KALE (3
TIMES). ANDROMACHE AND HIPPOLYTE PROBABLY REFER TO THE TWO SHIELD-BEARING
AMAZONS. THE `QUEEN AMAZON' ON THE INT. MAY BE ANTIOPE, CF. LIMC I, S.V. ANTIOPE
II.
