Decoration: Body: AJAX AND ACHILLES PLAYING SEATED ON BLOCKS, ATHENA, HELMETS ON BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, DEVICES, GORGONEION Figure: HEAD OF WOMAN Shoulder: CHARIOT BETWEEN DRAPED YOUTHS SEATED ON STOOLS WITH STAFFS, WARRIOR, DOGS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 56.171.29
Previous Collections:
San Simeon (CA), Hearst Corporation: 9969
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 362.30 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 161 Bothmer, D. v., Greek Vase Painting, An Introduction (New York, 1987): 29, 65, NO.13 (BD, PART OF SH) Bothmer, D. von, Greek Vase Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1987): 31, 70, NO.17 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 96 Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 139, FIG.130 (BD) Giudice, E. and Giudice, G. (eds.), Studi Miscellanei di Ceramografia Greca VII (Catania, 2021): 169, PL.4.7 (COLOUR OF BD) Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.23.94 (BD) Krentz, P., and Wheeler E.L (eds.), Polyaenus, Strategems of War (Chicago, 1994): FRONTCOVER (BD) Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 135, FIG.1, PL.16 (BD, SH, COLOUR OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF HYDRIA. LEAGROS GROUP. LAST QUARTER SIXTH. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: A WARRIOR LEAVING IN A CHARIOT. BODY: AJAX AND ACHILLES PLAYING A
BOARD GAME, WITH ATHENA.
CAVI Inscriptions: BODY: TO LEFT OF THE LEFT HERO'S ARMOR, AT THE TOP: ορδι(.)(.). TO RIGHT OF
THE ARMOR: σχοδεγ. ABOVE THE HEAD OF THE LEFT WARRIOR: (ν)χε(H)ι. BETWEEN THE
LEFT WARRIOR AND ATHENA, FACING HER: μχ^δο^ευ, RETR.{1}. ABOVE THE RIGHT
WARRIOR'S HEAD: (ν)χ^ι^αι{2}. ABOVE THE KNEE OF THE RIGHT WARRIOR: χδευ, RETR.
ABOVE AND AROUND THE ARMOR OF THE RIGHT WARRIOR: χρεριχε, RETR.{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SPEARS AND A HAND INTERVENE. {2} ATHENA'S RAISED HAND AND A SPEAR
INTERVENE. {2} THE FIRST RHO IS NEARLY TRIANGULAR, THE SECOND HAS AN EXTENDED
VERTICAL.
CAVI Comments: EX SAN SIMEON, HEARST 9969. TYPICAL LEAGRAN NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS OF THE νχαο
TYPE. REVERSED NU (OR SIDEWAYS SIGMA?); THE RHO VARIABLE. SOME LETTERS OF
DOUBTFUL IDENTIFICATION.
