Decoration: A: AJAX CARRYING THE BODY OF ACHILLES, WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, WARRIOR, OLD MAN, WOMAN, ARCHER WITH AXE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS, DEVICES, GORGONEION AND ROSETTES BETWEEN PANTHERS, TRISKELES B: DIONYSOS MOUNTING CHARIOT WITH KANTHAROS AND IVY, SATYR WITH KITHARA, MAENADS, ONE IN LEOPARD SKIN
Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 370
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 367.95 Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): III, PLS.211-212.3-4 (COLOUR DRAWING AND DRAWING OF A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 872, NO.1063 (PART OF A) 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): 99, FIG.73 (PART OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Cerveteri. Leagros Group{1}. Last quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: Ajax with the body of Achilles; at left, a woman; at right, a warrior and
an archer. B: Dionysus mounting a chariot; a satyr with a lyre; two maenads.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: between Ajax' legs: γαυο. To left of the right warrior's face:
σ̣ο. Between his legs: σ, and far below: αι{2}. To left of the archer's face:
ασ. To left of the archer's legs: γαιχ{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} note by Beazley: "Workshop, no doubt, of the Leagros Group, but not fully
Leagran in drawing." {2} I thought perhaps some letters might be combined into
καλος. {3} hardly ναιχ[ι].
CAVI Comments: All groups of letters seem to be complete.
CAVI Number: 6988
AVI Bibliography: Albizzati (1929), 160f., pl. 49, figs. 101-103. — ABV (1956), 367/95, 696.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
