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.
