Decoration: A: DIKE AND ADIKIA (BOTH NAMED) B: AJAX WITH THE BODY OF ACHILLES, BOEOTIAN SHIELD Neck A and B: SATYR AND MAENAD (IN NEBRIS) DANCING Rim: ANIMAL FRIEZE, LIONS AND BOARS
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 3722
Previous Collections:
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 319
Publication Record: Antike Welt: 15 (1984) 1, 40, FIGS.2-3 (A, INCLUDING DRAWING) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 320.11 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 11.3, 1618 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 13 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 321 Boreas: 9 (1986) PL.1 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 72 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 151 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: WIEN, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 2, 8-9, PL.(51) 51.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Frel, J., Greek Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, 1981): 8, FIG.21 (A) Jacobsthal, P., Ornamente Griechischer Vasen (Berlin, 1927): PL.43a (SIDE) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.143, ACHILLEUS 890 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.280, DIKE 3 (A) Masner, K., Die Sammlung antiker Vasen im K.K.Oesterreich Museum (Vienna, 1892): 39 (A) Memorie dell'Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica: 2 (1833) PL.4 (A) Neils, J., The Youthful Deeds of Theseus (Rome, 1987): FIG.18 (A) Prag, A., The Oresteia (Warminster, 1985): PL.37, FIG.D (NECK) Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.39 (B) Roscher, W., Lexicon der griechischen und romischen Mythologie (Leipzig, 1884-1937): 1019 (A) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 39, FIG.5 (A) Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.2.2 (A) Smith, T.J. and Plantzos, D. (eds.), A Companion to Greek Art (Malden, 2012): II, 445, FIG.22.3 (A, NA)
CAVI Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3722.
CAVI Lemma: BF/RF Nikosthenic neck amphora. From Cerveteri. Unattributed{1}; Class of
Cabinet des Médailles 2187. 530-520.
CAVI Subject: Body: RF: A: a woman killing another with an axe (Dike and Adikia). B: Ajax
with the body of Achilles. On the neck, BF: A, B, each: a satyr and a maenad. On
the topside of the mouth, BF: lions and boars.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the left woman's head: Δικε. To the right of the other woman, facing
the margin: Αδικ[ι]α̣, retr.{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} listed among `sundry very early red-figured pots' and compared to Villa
Giulia (M. 633). {2} so Masner. Adikia is retr. and unclear. CVA: Αδ[ικι]α,
retr. It has been read variously, including a reading by Brunn who had the last
letter as epsilon: see Shapiro 39 n. 25.
CAVI Comments: Ex Oest. Mus. 319. For Adikia, see Robertson. The pair appeared on the Chest
of Cypselus, Paus. 5.18,2, and on a fr. of a BF eye cup, Basel, Cahn 826, q.v.
Shapiro thinks the two vases are dependent on the Chest of Cypselus or its
source. Dotted delta.
