Decoration: A: AJAX AND ACHILLES PLAYING WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, DEVICE, STAR AND SNAKES, ATHENA, INSCRIPTIONS B: ARTEMIS MOUNTING CHARIOT, APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA
Last Recorded Collection: Essen, Folkwang Museum: A176
Previous Collections:
Luzern, market, Ars Antiqua
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 166.108BIS Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 98 Laser, S., Sport und Spiel, Archeologia Homerica (Göttingen, 1987): 165, FIG.57A (DRAWING OF A) Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias und seine Welt, Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 1.–2. März 2019, Züricher Archäologische Forschungen 8 (Zurich, 2022): PL.37C (DRAWING OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Leagros Group. Last quarter sixth. Ca. 510 (Schauenburg).
CAVI Subject: A: Ajax and Achilles playing at an altar; behind the altar, Athena (to right,
spreading out her aegis, but her face is turned to left). B: Artemis(?) mounting
a chariot to right; behind, Apollo citharoedus to right.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: on the WG center block of the altar, in BG: Αθεναιας. Nonsense: imitation:
to left of Athena, curving down from her face: 9 letters. To her right, 9
letters, apparently scattered{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} at least I cannot group them into separate inscriptions. Are the
inscriptions meant to `name' the two heroes?
CAVI Comments: Ex Lucerne Market (A.A.). - Schauenburg does not discuss which of the heroes
is Achilles and which Ajax. Note that the hero on the right has a double helmet
plume. On the other hand, Athena's spreading her aegis toward him while looking
at the other should have some significance. The game takes place in a sanctuary
of Athena.
CAVI Number: 3458
AVI Bibliography: Schauenburg (1964a), 30/122, pl. 29. — Para. (1971), 166/108 bis. — Add.[2]
(1989), 98.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
