CAVI Lemma: RF Nolan amphora From Nola. Dutuit Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles with a kantharos receiving a drink from Athena. B: Hermes, with
his kerykeion, looking back.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: between the figures: five nonsense letters. B: below Hermes' outstretched
left arm: seven nonsense letters.
CAVI Comments: The vase was originally in the Hamilton and Mengs collections and was brought
to the Louvre by Napoleon. It appears in Hancarville, Winckelmann, Millin,
Inghirami, Welcker, and in a portrait of Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of
Braunschweig; for all this see Greifenhagen, and ARV[2] for references. The
readings in CVA do not inspire confidence and are not repeated here.
CAVI Number: 6505
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7641. — Beazley (1913), 109/10, pls. 106-107, figs. 1-2.
— E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 6, France 9 (1929), III I c, pl. 37,4-7. — Greifenhagen
(1935), 206, pls. 1, 2,1, 3,1,2 and 4. — ARV[2] (1963), 306/1. — Add.[2] (1989),
212.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
