Decoration: A: THESEUS (IN NEBRIS, WITH SWORD) AND THE MINOTAUR, BETWEEN WOMEN, BETWEEN YOUTHS WITH SPEARS, CLOTH ON STONE B: MAN AND YOUTHS, SEATED ON STOOLS, ALL DRAPED, OBJECTS ON SCALES
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 47.11.5
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 174.1, 688, 669 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 72 Braccesi, L. et al., Veder Greco, le necropoli di Agrigento, mostra internazionale, Agrigento, 2. maggio - 31. luglio 1988 (Rome, 1988): 194-195, NO.59 (A,B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 49 Chatzidimitriou, A., Parastaseis Ergasterion kai Emporiou stin Eikonographia ton Archaikon kai Klasikon Chronon (Athens, 2005): PL.58.E39 (B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 3, 7-8, PL.(543) 11.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates De Miro, E., La Valle dei Templi (Palermo, 1994): 67, FIG.72 (B) Gymnasium: 100 (1993) 409, FIG.11 (DRAWING OF B) Mertens, J., How to read Greek vases (New York, 2010): 67-69 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 67, FIG.2.22 (B) Picon, C.A., Mertens, J.R., et al., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome (New York, 2007): 82, NO.83 (COLOUR OF A) Sparkes, B.A., The Red and the Black (London, 1996): 56, FIG.II.15 (B) Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 89, FIG.51 (COLOUR OF B)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Agrigento. Taleides Painter. Third quarter sixth. 550-540.
CAVI Subject: A: Theseus and the Minotaur with a woman and a youth. B: a weighing scene: a
seated man, a scale and a man.
CAVI Inscriptions: Above the scene: A: Ταλειδες εποιεσεν. B: in upper left: Κλιταρχος καλος{1}.
In upper right: Ταλειδες εποιεσεν{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} For the use of iota for epsilon iota see M. Milne and Threatte (1980),
141f. {2} Tillyard does not have the final nu, but the vase has been cleaned
since.
CAVI Number: 5699
AVI Bibliography: Kretschmer (1894), 74 and 135. — Tillyard (1923), no. 13, pls. 1 and 2 (much
early bibl.). — Bothmer–Milne (1946–7), 221-28 (ill.). — Vanderpool (1952),
2/under 1 (mention). — ABV (1956), 174/1, 688. — D. von Bothmer, CVA New York 3,
USA 12 (1963), pl. 11. — Para. (1971), 72. — Add.[2] (1989), 49. — AttScr
(1990), no. 265.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
