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)
