Decoration: Body: INTRODUCTION OF HERAKLES TO OLYMPOS, IRIS, ATHENA, DOG, ZEUS SEATED ON CHAIR WITH THUNDERBOLT AND SCEPTRE, GANYMEDE WITH OINOCHOE, ARES WITH SPEAR AND HELMET, LION, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 41.162.30
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), Gallatin
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 507.10 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: CAMBRIDGE (MA), FOGG MUSEUM AND GALLATIN COLLECTIONS, 94, PL.(393) 45.1A-C View Whole CVA Plates Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 226.10, PL.35.1 (PART) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 3 Villanueva Puig, M-C. et al., Dossier, Des vases pour les Atheniens, VIe-IVe siecle avant notre ere. Metis 12 (2014): 187, FIG.5 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. From Attica{1}. Sappho Painter. Late sixth.
CAVI Subject: Heracles introduced into Olympus, with Iris, Athena, Zeus, Ganymede, and
Ares.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense (imitation letters): to the right of Iris' mouth: γσ(γ)γσ. To right
of Athena's mouth: μγσ(.)(.)(μ). To right of her body: (.)(ο)συυσ(γ)γ. Around
Zeus' chest and head: traces of 5 letters. On Ares' left: ον(ο)α̣χ̣.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} from the same tomb as New York 41.162.29.
CAVI Comments: Ex Gallatin. Letters have partly flaked off; the readings are uncertain, the
mu's probably misread.
CAVI Number: 5667
AVI Bibliography: Richter (1930), 217,d (part). — Haspels (1936), 97 n. 7, 98, 226/10, pl. 35.1
(part, showing the second and third inscriptions). — G.H. Chase and M.Z. Pease,
CVA Fogg & Gallatin, USA 8 (1942), pl. 45,1. — ABV (1956), 507/10, 702.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
