Decoration: A: POSEIDON WITH TRIDENT AND DOLPHIN AND WOMAN (AMPHITRITE) SEATED ON STOOL, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: HERAKLES SEATED ON BLOCK, ATHENA WITH HELMET, EAGLE FLYING WITH SNAKE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS Under handle: ANIMALS (FELINE, LIONS ?)
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), market, Sotheby's Parke Bernet
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), C. Bastis
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 510.21 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 249 Bothmer, D. von et al., Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis (Mainz, 1987): 269, NO.157 (PARTS) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 128 Kephalidou, E. and Tsiaphake, D. (eds.), Kerameos paides, Antidoro ston Kathegete Michale Tiberio apo tous mathetes tou (Thessalonike, 2012): 70, FIG.1 (A, B) Pevnick, S. (ed.), Poseidon and the Sea. Myth, Cult, and Daily Life (Tampa, 2014): 143, NO.58 (COLOUR OF PARTS OF BD) Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, New York, sale catalogue: 9.12.1999, 154, NO.134 (COLOUR OF PARTS) Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 227, FIG.1 (A, B)
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles seated, with Athena. Under the left handle knob: an eagle and a
snake. At right, two lions. B: Poseidon and Amphitrite{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: the photos. show five inscriptions: A: behind Heracles, curving
around Athena's head: 7 letters. Above one lion's rear end: letters. B: between
Poseidon and Aphrodite: 7 letters. Above her head: 6 letters.