Attributed To:Compare EXEKIAS by PERKINS BERLIN 1686, P OF by PERKINS
Decoration: A: YOUTH ON HORSEBACK, LEADING HORSE, BETWEEN ONLOOKERS (DRAPED MAN WITH SPEAR, YOUTH WITH SPEAR), NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: YOUTHS WITH SPEARS ON HORSEBACK, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Champaign-Urbana (IL), University of Illinois, Krannert Art Museum: 70.9.3
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 1, 10-11, PL.(1179) 9.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Moon, W.G. and Berge, L., (eds.), Greek Vase Painting in Midwestern Collections (Chicago, 1979): 51, NO.30 (A, B) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (A, B)
CAVI Collection: Urbana, University of Illinois, Krannert Museum 70-9-3.
CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian amphora. Painter of Berlin 1686 (A. Perkins); Pointed-Nose
Painter (Bothmer); Unattributed, not Tyrrhenian (Kluiver). Third quarter sixth.
Ca. 550 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: A: a nude horseman with a spear leading a second horse; at left, a bearded
man with a spear; at right, a nude youth with a spear. B: two nude young
horsemen with spears.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: imitation letters: the inscriptions are placed where one would
expect names: A: to right of a spear held up before the man's face: (γ)(ι)ν(σ)ν.
Under the horses' bellies: (.)νγσν{1}. In front of the horses: κσνκ(γ)σνε. To
right of (behind) the youth's head: six letters. B: to left of (behind) the left
rider's chest: seven letters ending in σν. Under the left horse's belly:
(κ)σκσ(κ)σ. To left of the right rider's face: γσγσγ. Under the right horse:
κσκσγ. To right of the right horse: five letters.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the first letter is unclear.
CAVI Comments: `Midwestern' (in index) lists the location as Champaign, not Urbana. The
letters are small in the photos. and hard to read. The rightmost inscription on
B is de trop, imitating A, where there is an extra horse. The letters are
disjointed. These readings are from `Midwestern', but compare the phs. in CVA.
Are these mock inscriptions or illiterate attempts?
CAVI Number: 7880
AVI Bibliography: Perkins (1979), 500ff., fig. 30. — S.U. Wisseman, CVA Urbana-Champaign 1, USA
24 (1989), pl. 9,1-4. — Kluiver (1996), 17 and n. 156 (inscrr. not mentioned).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
