Decoration: A1: SPHINX (THEBAN ?) ON MAN BETWEEN NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS AB2: NONSENSE INSCRIPTION BETWEEN PALMETTES B1: SPHINX (THEBAN ?) ON YOUTH BETWEEN NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: GR421
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 03.24.31
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 2, 7-8, PLS.(502,528) 12.16A-D, 38.16 View Whole CVA Plates Heesen, P., Athenian Little-Master Cups (Amsterdam, 2011): 163, FIG.94, 247, FIG.127.243, PL.70D-E (A, B, UH, AH) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.805, SPHINX 175 (AB1) Markoe, G. and Serwint, N., Animal style on Greek and Etruscan Vases (Vermont, 1985): 26, NO.24 (A) Moret, J.-M., Oedipe, la Sphinx et les Thebains (Rome, 1984): PL.7 (A, B) Roncalli, F. and Bonfante, L. (eds.), Gens antiquissima Italiae, Antichita dall'Umbria a New York (Perugia, 1991): 185, NO.3.20 (A) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens, 2009): 370, FIG.7 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF lip cup. From Monteleone. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth. After 550
(CVA).
CAVI Subject: Lip: A: a sphinx carrying a dead and bearded Theban. B: similar, but the
Theban is a youth.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: lip: to left of the sphinx, diagonally up: γυτυσυρολυ(λ){1}. On
her right, diagonally down: ϝυσϝ(.)υ(.)υ(.). In the handle zone:
λ(.)υσυσϝυσυ(.)υχ̣συχ. B: lip: diagonally up: τοτσοτουτ. Diagonally down:
λ(.)λσλσ(ϝ)λ(.). Handle zone: υ(.)υ[---](.)συγχι(.){2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} The last letter reversed; this inscription could also be read retr. {2}
my readings.
CAVI Comments: = GR 421. For the arrangement of the inscriptions see parallels in CVA. Many
letters are blobs. Lambda and upsilon are indistinguishable.
CAVI Number: 5533
AVI Bibliography: BADB 13,334. — Richter (1915), 177f. — Richter (1930), 74. — G. Richter, CVA
New York 2, USA 11 (1953), pls. 12,16 and 38,16. — Moret (1984), pl. 7 (A, B). —
Markoe–Servint (1985), 26/24 (A). — Roncalli–Bonfante (1991), 185, no. 3.20 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
