Decoration: A: AMAZONS ARMING, ONE WITH TRUMPET (SHIELD DEVICES, SATYR MASK, LEAF) SWORD AND CLOTH SUSPENDED B: AMAZONS ON HORSEBACK
Last Recorded Collection: Eleusis, Archaeological Museum: 907
Previous Collections:
Eleusis, Archaeological Museum: 465
Publication Record: Berti, F. and Restani, D. (eds.), Lo specchio della musica, iconografia nella ceramica attica di Spina (Bologna, 1988): 36, FIG.7 (PARTS) Bulletin de Correspondance Hellenique: 108 (1984), 100-102, FIGS.1-3 Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 191, FIG.33 De la Villa, J. et al. (eds.), Ianua Classicorum. Temas y formas del Mundo Clasico. Actas del XIII Congreso Espanol de Estudios Clasicos. Vol.II (Madrid, 2015): 577-579, FIGS.2-4 (PARTS OF A AND B) Ephemeris Archaiologike: 1885, PL.8,1-3 (DRAWING) Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 132, FIG.116 Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 228.54, PL.34.1A-C Heinrich, F., Das Epinetron, Aspekte der weiblichen Lebenswelt im Spiegel eines Arbeitsgeräts (Rahden, 2006): PLS.6.5, 7.1 (A, B) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art, Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 23, FIG.17 (PART OF A)
CAVI Footnotes: {1} D. Philios mentioned the possibility that the letters attached to the
fighters imitate barbarian war cries and those attached to the trumpeter, music.
This is strongly supported by Bélis. Lissarrague follows her. My readings differ
from Belis' readings and I do not believe that the inscriptions are musical
notation: Immerwahr Belis fr. 1: ?](.)ετοτοτ τοτοε hτ̣οτ το[τ]η fr. 2: πεhι Γεηι
fr. 3: τειτ τειτ I think that none of the inscriptions are retr. as Belis
assumes.
CAVI Comments: See Haspels 96 for a discussion of the Sappho Painter's use of nonsense
inscriptions. (.) preserves a bit of a letter. Lissarrague lists this vase as an
example of nonsense in the position of a song [from the mouth].
CAVI Number: 3431
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Kabbadias (1895), pl. 8,1-3. — Haspels (1936), 94, 98, 228/54, pl.
34. — Bélis (1984), 99-104 (reads the inscriptions as musical notation). — H.
Metzger (1986), 67/17 (the first inscription there read .ΕΤΟΤΟΥ, the rest from
my readings). — Lissarrague (1990a), 127, fig. 97 (sketch of fr. a, with
inscriptions).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
