Decoration: A: ATHENA AND HERAKLES IN CHARIOT TURNING B: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE IN NEBRIS FALLING OR KNEELING (?)
Last Recorded Collection: Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire: A132
Publication Record: Balty, J. et al., Des animaux et des hommes, témoignages de la Préhistoire et de l'Antiquité (Brussels, 1988): 110, 205, NO.258 (A, INCLUDING COLOUR PL) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 668 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BRUSSELS, MUSEES ROYAUX DU CINQUANTENAIRE 1, III.H.E.3, PL.(020) 7.2A.2B.2C View Whole CVA Plates
Notes: COLOUR IMAGES COPYRIGHT ROYAL MUSEUMS OF ART AND HISTORY, BRUSSELS (CC BY-SA.4)
CAVI Collection: BRUSSELS, MUSéES ROYAUX A 132.
CAVI Lemma: BF OINOCHOE. FROM VULCI. UNATTRIBUTED. SECOND HALF SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: HERACLES AND ATHENA IN A CHARIOT.
CAVI Inscriptions: STARTING TO RIGHT OF THEIR HEADS AND GOING TO THE HORSES' HEADS: NONSENSE:
οσπλοιασ{1}. FROM THE HORSES' HEADS DOWN TO BETWEEN THEIR LEGS: καλος
Hιπ[π]ο(ν){2}. UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: A COMPLEX LIGATURE, NOT IN JOHNSTON (1979).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} FIRST SIGMA FOUR-STROKE, SECOND SIGMA THREE-STROKE. {2} THE LAST LETTER
PRINTED AS Z IN ARV[2], AS FOUR-STRIKE SIGMA IN CVA; IS IT A REVERSED NU OR A
SIGMA LYING SIDEWAYS AND ALSO TURNED?
CAVI Comments: BEAZLEY SAYS "PERHAPS" OF THE KALOS-NAME HIPPON, WHICH APPEARS ON BOSTON
01.8059 (ABV 667); (THE NU IS CLEAR THERE). HE CONSIDERS THE INSCRIPTIONS ONE:
"I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE FIRST PART OF THE INSCRIPTION, COULD UNDERSTAND δις
Πυθιονικος, BUT THAT IS FAR FROM WHAT IS WRITTEN." ATTIC ALPHABET; BUT BOTH
FOUR- AND THREE-STROKE SIGMA (SEE BELOW)?
CAVI Number: 2887
AVI Bibliography: F. MAYENCE, CVA BRUSSELS 1, BELGIUM 1 (1926), III H E, PL. 7,2. — ABV (1956),
668. — CF. ARV[2] (1963), 1568.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
