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.
