Attributed To:Perhaps PROMETHEUS P by UNKNOWN TYRRHENIAN GROUP by THIERSCH
Decoration: A1: AMAZONOMACHY, HERAKLES, AMAZONS, WARRIORS, SOME FALLING AB2: ATHLETES, RUNNING, JUMPING, BOXING, ACONTIST (?), DRAPED MEN SEATED ON STOOLS (JUDGES ?), TRIPODS AB3: HERMES WITH CATTLE OF APOLLO AB4: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SIRENS AND PANTHERS B1: HORSEMEN
Last Recorded Collection: Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire: MF156
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 99.49, 684 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 26 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: GENEVA, MUSEE D'ART ET D'HISTOIRE 2, 12-13, BEILAGE A.1, PL.(99) 43.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Dozio, E. et al. (eds.), Gli atleti di Zeus, Lo sport nell'antichita (Milan, 2009): 97, NO.49 (COLOUR OF B AND PART) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 285, FIG.135 (UH)
CAVI Collection: Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire MF 156.
CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. From Falerii (Cività Castellana)? Prometheus
Painter{1}. Second quarter sixth. Middle period (Kluiver).
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: A: Heracles and Amazons. B: four horsemen. Body: athletes (sporting
contests); judges; prizes; Hermes and the cattle of Apollo(?); one animal
frieze.
CAVI Inscriptions: "There were at one time inscriptions, but from the present traces of them I
could not make out their meaning," Bothmer, p. 20.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Bothmer; see Add.[2].
CAVI Comments: The surface is very poorly preserved. According to CVA, only traces remain
(K.).
CAVI Number: 3785
AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 99/49, 684. — Bothmer (1957), 8/22, pl. 12. — C. Dunant and L.
Kahil, CVA Geneva 2, Switzerland 3 (1980), pl. 43,1-4. — Add.[2] (1989), 26. —
Kluiver (1995), 59/12 and 65/12 (inscriptions done by C.J. Ruijgh) (not ill.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
