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)
