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)
