Attributed To: CASTELLANI P by BOTHMER TYRRHENIAN GROUP by THIERSCH
Decoration: A,B2-3: ANIMAL FRIEZES, OWL, PANTHERS, RAMS, SPHINXES, COCKS A1: CENTAUROMACHY, CENTAURS WITH TREES, WARRIORS, ONE FALLEN, SHIELD DEVICES, SATYR HEAD IN RELIEF, PROTOME OF PANTHER B1: AMAZONOMACHY, WARRIORS, SOME ON HORSEBACK, AMAZON, WOMEN
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 50652
Previous Collections:
Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: M454
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 98.42, 683 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 35, 37 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 26
CAVI Lemma: FRAGMENTARY BF TYRRHENIAN NECK AMPHORA. CASTELLANI PAINTER (BOTHMER). THIRD
QUARTER SIXTH. EARLY PERIOD (KLUIVER).
CAVI Subject: A: CENTAUROMACHY. B: AMAZONOMACHY.
CAVI Inscriptions: A:(1) NONSENSE: BETWEEN THE LEGS OF THE LEFTMOST WARRIOR: γ̣ϙεϙα{2}. ABOVE
THE BRANCH HELD BY A CENTAUR: γχοH(ο)νH{3}. UNDER THE CENTAUR'S BELLY: γτ[--].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} DONE FROM AUTOPSY ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THIS IS THE VASE LISTED IN ABV
AND THE BIBLIOGRAPHY IN BEAZLEY. {2} A DOUBTFUL INTERPRETATION OF THE LETTERS,
WHICH ARE PECULIAR: THE FIRST KOPPA HAS A LARGE HEAD WITH A VERY SHORT VERTICAL;
EPSILON AND `ALPHA' ARE WRITTEN KIONEDON; THE SECOND KOPPA HAS A VERTICAL ABOVE
AND BELOW THE CIRCLE AND MIGHT BE A PHI; THE FINAL ALPHA HAS A VERTICAL CROSS
STROKE (ARROW ALPHA). {3} THE BRACKETED LETTER COULD BE A BADLY WRITTEN ALPHA;
THE HETAS COULD BE ETAS.
CAVI Comments: NOTE THAT ALL THREE INSCRIPTIONS SEEM TO BEGIN WITH GAMMA. ODD WRITING.
