Decoration: Body: HORSEMEN, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS Frieze below: COCK FIGHT, DOGS CHASING HARE, NET Shoulder: COURTING, YOUTHS AND MEN, ONE WITH HARE, ONE WITH COCK, DOG
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 08.291
Publication Record: Barringer, J.M., The Hunt in ancient Greece (Baltimore and London, 2001): 96-97, FIGS.55-57 (S, BD, FB) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 92 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 34 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 25 Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 51, FIG.5 (PART OF BD) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): PL.8.2 (PART) Lear, A. and Cantarella, E., Images of ancient Greek pederasty, Boys were their gods (London and New York, 2008): 74-75, FIG.2.4A-B (PARTS) Schnapp, A., Le chasseur et la cite, Chasse et erotique dans la Grece ancienne (Paris, 1997): 256, NO.195 (DRAWING OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF LEKYTHOS{1}. PAINTER OF BOSTON 08.291. SECOND QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 560-550.
CA. 540 (VERMEULE).
CAVI Subject: THREE ZONES: TOP: MALE LOVERS. MIDDLE: SIX BOY HORSEMEN TO RIGHT. BOTTOM:
ANIMALS.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: READINGS FROM HASPEL: TOP FRIEZE: TO RIGHT OF THE LOWER BODY OF THE
THIRD MAN FROM LEFT: χεστκτ. SIMILAR FOR THE SIXTH FIGURE: ν[.]τκτ. MIDDLE
FRIEZE: THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE EITHER BEHIND THE RIDER'S BACK [α] OR UNDER THE
HORSE'S BELLY [β]. (THERE IS NO INSCRIPTION [α] BY THE SECOND RIDER.) νει [α].
κτεπτ [β]. εσκλππ [β]. κσπι [α]. ατι̣(σ)οι [β]. πστ [α]{2}. παοπ[..] [β]. νετ(.)
[α]. νκπι [β]. πσοει [α]. κπεκ [β]. BOTTOM FRIEZE: ABOVE THE COCKS:
χνε̣ισ̣πο{3}. READINGS FROM E.V. [PROBABLY BETTER](4): TOP: χοστκτ. ν^σκτ. (A
SLIGHT GAP AFTER THE FIRST LETTER.) MIDDLE: NUMEROUS SHORT INSCRIPTIONS, MOSTLY
DIAGONALLY DOWNWARD, MANY NEAR THE HEADS OF THE RIDERS AND UNDER THE HORSES'
BELLIES: [I COPIED 13 AS AGAINST 11 FROM HASPELS]: νει. κτ^επτ. ν^τετ. επ̣κγ.
κσρι. (.)^ρπ̣ (UNCERTAIN.) ατ(.)(σ)οι. π^στ. παοπ.νετ. νκρι. πσοε. κρεκ. [THE
UNDERLINED WORDS [[ALL EXCEPT ν^τετ AND (.)^ρπ̣]] SEEM TO BE IN THE HASPELS
READINGS, SOMETIMES WITH SOME DIFFERENCE.] BOTTOM: (.)ν(.)(σ)(.)πο. THE DOTS
REPRESENT BLOBS OF VARIOUS KINDS. READINGS FROM BéRARD: THE MIDDLE PICTURE
SHOWS: UNDER THE BELLY OF A HORSE, DIAGONALLY DOWNWARD: κπε^(κ). THE TAIL OF THE
NEXT HORSE INTERVENES. ABOVE THE RUMP OF THE NEXT HORSE, SIMILAR: νει. UNDER
BELLY OF SECOND HORSE, SIMILAR: κτ^επι. TAIL OF PRECEDING HORSE INTERVENES.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} DEIANEIRA SHAPE. {2} PROBABLY COMPLETE FORE. {3} NOT CLEAR IF COMPLETE AT
END. {4} DONE FROM THE FACS. IN AK, FIG. 1, WHICH HAS VERY SMALL LETTERS.
CAVI Comments: CLEAR LETTERS, VERY NEAT AND NORMAL. FOR SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT READINGS SEE TH
FACS. IN E. VERMEULE'S ARTICLE, WHICH HOWEVER HAS VERY SMALL LETTERS.
CAVI Number: 2744
AVI Bibliography: HASPELS (1936), 27, PL. 8,2. — BEAZLEY (1947), 199F./α 2. — ABV (1956), 92. —
E.T. VERMEULE (1969), 10/1, FIG. 1 (FACS. OF INSCRIPTIONS), PL. 4,1-4. — PARA.
(1971), 34. — ADD.[2] (1989), 25 (BIBL.). — BéRARD ET AL. (1989), 80, FIG. 110
(3 VIEWS).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
