Attributed To: ACHELOOS P by BEAZLEY LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: HERAKLES MOUNTING BLOCK OR PLATFORM WITH KITHARA BETWEEN HERMES WITH GOAT AND ATHENA HOLDING CLUB, SHIELD, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: DIONYSOS WITH VINE AND KANTHAROS BETWEEN SATYRS, GOAT
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: SL459
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 369.121 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 162 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 98 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNCHEN, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN EHEMALS MUSEUM ANTIKER KLEINKUNST 9, 27-28, BEILAGE D1, PLS.(2315,2316,2326) 18.1, 19.1-2, 29.5 View Whole CVA Plates Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Griechische Vasen als Medium für Kommunikation. Ausgewählte Aspekte. Akten des internationalen Symposiums im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien, 5.-7. Oktober 2017. CVA Österreich, Beiheft 3 (Vienna, 2021): 50, FIG.7 (COLOUR OF A) Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 401, 457, FIGS.71.3, 85.8 (B) Wünsche, R. (ed.), Herakles, Herkules, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2003): 16, TOP 2, 303, FIG.53.2, 416, CAT.168 (A, B, COLOUR OF A AND B)
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles mounting a bema with his cithara; behind, Hermes with a ram; at
right, Athena. B: Dionysus between two satyrs.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: to right of Hermes' head and upper body: (μ)δε(ν)ι[--]{2}. Above
Heracles: νχε(ι)[.](ι)πυ{3}. To left of Athena's body (she faces left), not
facing her: [.(?)](ν)δε(.) vacat{4}. Under the foot Gr.: Α{5}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} see ABV 369. {2} the mu is either upside down or kionedon. {3} the two
iotas resemble dots. {4} the nu is reversed. The last letter shows as the bottom
of a diagonal to left. {5} pointed alpha.
CAVI Comments: All nu's except one are reversed; they could be sideways sigmas. Typical
writing of the Acheloos Painter.
CAVI Number: 5392
AVI Bibliography: J. Sieveking (1930), 54, pl. 40. — ABV (1956), 369/121. — Para. (1971), 162.
— Johnston (1979), 183/s.l. 6 20, cf. p. 39. — E. Kunze-Götte, CVA Munich 9,
Germany 48 (1982), pls. 18,1, 19,1-2 and 29,5, Beilage D 1; p. 27, facs. of Gr.
(bibl.). — Add.[2] (1989), 98.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
