Decoration: Body: APOTHEOSIS OF HERAKLES, HERMES, DEMETER, IOLAOS IN CHARIOT, ARTEMIS AND APHRODITE WITH WREATHS (ALL NAMED) Frieze below: ANIMAL FRIEZE, LIONS, PANTHERS, DEER, GOATS Shoulder: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SPHINXES BETWEEN LIONS BETWEEN COCKS, BETWEEN SIRENS Under handle: LION (?)
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 67.1006
Publication Record: Archaiologikon Deltion: 71-72 (2016-2017) A, 178, PL.12 (PART) Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 43 Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art (Oxford, 1986): PL.29B (BD) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 28 Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 132, FIG.25 (COLOUR OF BD) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 2, 12-13, PLS.(903-904) 69.2-4, 70.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 88, FIG.49 (BD) Jurriaans-Helle, G., Composition in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting, The Chariot in Profile Type Scene. Babesch Supplementa 41 (Leuven, Paris, and Bristol, 2021): 134, 266, FIG.44 (BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.115, HERAKLES 2878 (A1,2) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.32C
CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian hydria. Tyrrhenian Group (Archippe Group){1}. Third quarter
sixth. Before 550 (Shapiro).
CAVI Subject: Top zone: antithetic sphinxes between lions between cocks. Main zone:
unusual: Iolaus in a chariot; Heracles beside it; at left, Hermes and Demeter;
at right, Artemis and Aphrodite{2}. Bottom: animal frieze.
CAVI Inscriptions: Top zone: nonsense: between the left lion and the left sphinx: οτευσπ, retr.
Similarly between the right sphinx and the right lion: σπεχ(.), retr., the last
letter smeared?(3) Main zone: between Hermes' and Demeter's lower bodies:
hερμες, retr., not facing him. In a similar position to right of Demeter (who
faces left): Δεμετε(ρ), retr., not facing her. Below the horses' bellies (not
very close to Heracles): hερακλες, retr. To left of Iolaus' face: Ιο(λ)εος,
retr.{4}. To left of Artemis' body, facing her: Αρτεμις, retr. Between Artemis'
and Aphrodite's lower bodies, facing the latter: [Α]φροδιτε, retr.{5}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Beazley compares the Archippe Group and Cab. Méd. 253 (ABV 104/127). {2}
Bothmer interprets this as Apotheosis of Heracles. Shapiro (with Beazley and
against Bothmer) thinks not Apotheosis of Heracles, but simply H. setting out;
the divinities are brought in as spectators as often in Tyrrhenian. CVA: this
cannot be the final arrival of Heracles as Zeus is not present; it is rather an
excerpt of an arrival scene as on Cab. Méd. 253 (ABV 104/127) attributed by
Bothmer to the same painter. {3} uncertain readings. {4} the lambda does not
look right. {5} no trace of the alpha, but there is space: is there some
restoration (or an error of the painter)?
CAVI Comments: Note that all inscriptions are retr. regardless of which way the figures are
facing. Most letters are distorted in the photo. Typical Tyrrhenian lettering.
The inscriptions are similar to Vienna 3613 and Louvre E 869, both by the
Archippe Painter.
CAVI Number: 2819
AVI Bibliography: C.C. Vermeule (1968), 56ff., figs. 9-12. — Bothmer (1969), 26, pl. 20. —
Para. (1971), 43. — M. True et al., CVA Boston 2, USA 19 (1978), pls. 69,3-4 and
70,1-3 (bibl.). — Add.[2] (1989), 28. — Shapiro (1989), 74, pl. 32,c.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
