Decoration: A: CULT, ELEUSIS (?), INSCRIPTION, YOUTHS, ONE SEATED ON STOOL, MAN (PRIEST ?) WITH CUP, BAG AND SPRIGS, ALL DRAPED, PINAKES ON BOX ON COLUMN (NAISKOS), CLOAKS ON TABLE, BASKET, TREE B: CONTEST FOR THE ARMS OF ACHILLES, ODYSSEUS ON PLATFORM, AJAX LEANING ON SPEARS (BOTH NAMED), BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICE, TRIPOD
Last Recorded Collection: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 81083
Previous Collections:
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: H3358
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 338.3, 694 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 150 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 92 Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 398, FIG.6 (B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NAPOLI, MUSEO NAZIONALE 1, III.H.E.8, PL.(957) 13.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Ephemeris Archaiologike: 138 (1999) 19, FIG.1 (B) Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 147, FIG.138 (B) Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.23K (PART OF B) Hägg, R. (ed.), Ancient Greek Hero Cult, Proceedings of the 5th International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult (Stockholm, 1999): 101, FIG.1 (PART OF A) Mededelingenblad, Vereniging van Vrienden van het Allard PiersonMuseum: 41 (1987) 19, FIG.6 (B) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 68, FIG.12 (A) Salvadori, M. and Baggio, M. (eds.), Gesto-immagine, tra antico e moderno, riflessioni sulla comunicazione non-verbale, giornata di studi, Isernia, 18 Aprile 2007 (Rome, 2009): 50, FIG.1 (A) Scheibler, I., Griechische Malerei der Antike (Munich, 1994): 140, FIG.65 (DRAWING OF A) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.38F (A) The Birth of Democracy, An Exhibition celebrating the 2500th Anniversary of Democracy at the National Archives, Washington, D.C. (Athens, 1993): 23, FIG.3 (B) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: I, PL.70.GR59 (A) Vasi Antichi, Museo Archeologio Nazionale di Napoli (Naples 2009): 46-47 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF PELIKE. NEAR RYCROFT PAINTER. LAST QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: A: INITIATION: TWO YOUTHS(1) (ONE YOUNGER THAN THE OTHER), SEATED BEFORE A
TABLE IN A SMALL SHRINE; AT LEFT, A PRIEST HOLDING A WINESKIN OFFERS THEM A CUP
AND SPEAKS; A PORTABLE PICTURE ON A POLE SHOWS TWO MALES STANDING NEXT TO THEIR
HORSES{2}. B: THE CONTEST FOR THE ARMS OF ACHILLES, ODYSSEUS SPEAKING, AJAX
LISTENING.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: BEFORE THE PRIEST'S LEGS: κ(α)ι(ς){3}. OVER THE TABLE AND BETWEEN THE
FIGURES: Μυστα. B: BEFORE ODYSSEUS' HEAD: Ολυσ[σ](ε)υς. TO LEFT OF AJAX: Αια(ς),
RETR.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CALLED WOMEN IN CVA. {2} DIOSCOURI(?), BEAZLEY. {3} CALLED MEANINGLESS IN
CVA AND NOT EXPLAINED IN ABV, BUT I THINK IT MUST BE A MISWRITTEN WORD OR NAME.
CAVI Comments: = 3358. SHAPIRO SUGGESTS THE INITIATION OF THE DIOSCURI INTO THE ELEUSINIAN
MYSTERIES. SCHEIBLER SUGGESTS THE INITIATION OF TWO HIPPEIS IN THE ANAKEION. ON
A: THE ALPHA IS TRIANGULAR; THE SIGMA, MOON-SHAPED.
CAVI Number: 5438
AVI Bibliography: HEYDEMANN (1872), [[602F./]]NO. 3358, PL. 10. — A. ADRIANI, CVA NAPLES 1,
ITALY 20 (1950), III H E, PL. 13,1-4 (BIBL). — ABV (1956), 338/3, 694. — SIMON
(1970), 709. — PARA. (1971), 150. — WEBSTER (1972), 135F. — SCHAUENBURG (1974A),
105F. [THE LAST 4 ITEMS ON A.]. — BOARDMAN (1978), 16 N. 32. — SCHEFOLD (1978),
251, FIG. 336 (B). — D. WILLIAMS (1980), 142-43, AND N. 45 (BIBL.), PL. 36,6
(B). — SCHEIBLER (1987), 114. — MALAGARDIS (1988), 398, FIG. 8 (B: AFTER LIMC I
(1981), PL. 243 AIAS 80). — ADD.[2] (1989), 92. — SHAPIRO (1989), 83, 151, PL.
38,F (A). — OBER–HEDRICK (1994), 23, FIG. 3. — SHAPIRO (1997), 67-68, FIG. 12
(A, SHOWS PART OF INSCRIPTIONS).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
