Decoration: Body: HUNTSMEN, YOUTHS IN PERSIAN COSTUMES, ONE ON HORSEBACK, DOG, DEER
Last Recorded Collection: St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: SM3
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1407 Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 279, FIG.10 (PART) Schierup, S. & Rasmussen, B.B. (eds.), Red-figure Pottery in its Ancient Setting, Gosta Enbom Monographs 2 (Copenhagen, 2012): 35, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF PART) Schmidt, S. and Stähli, A. (eds.), Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer, Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum, Beiheft zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland V (Munich, 2012): 158, FIG.9A (PART)
CAVI Lemma: squat lekythos with relief decoration. From Zminyj Kurgan South of Kerch
(Panticapaeum). Related to Xenophantos Painter. First quarter fourth.
CAVI Subject: In relief: Persians hunting. (Brief version of subject of St. Petersburg St.
1790).
CAVI Inscriptions: In the same location as the signature on St. 1790 [so Tiverios]: in relief:
Ξενοφαντος εποιεσε Αθεναιος{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} listed by Tiverios as inv. 108i. {2} the inscription is given by Tiverios
as ΞΕNΟΦΑNΤΟΣ ΕΠΟΙΗΣΕN ΑΘΗNΑΙΟΣ, which does not agree with ARV[2] (which is
given above). The inscription first read by Waldhauer in 1920.
CAVI Comments: The same inscription is found on St. Petersburg St. 1790, also in relief, but
it is there in the Ionic alphabet. Presumably not by the same hand, although
Tiverios thinks they are. Tiverios, p.277: both vases are by the same
potter-painter (while Beazley speaks of a Xenophantos Painter). For other
attributions see ibidem. Mixed alphabet. Three- and four-stroke sigma.
CAVI Number: 7333
AVI Bibliography: Peredol’skaya (1945), 1, 60, pls. 5-6. — Peredol’skaya (1945), 56ff., pls.
5ff. — ARV[2] (1963), 1407. — Zervoudaki (1968), 26/35. — AttScr (1990), no.
819. — Threatte (1996), 689. — Tiverios (1997), 269 and n. 2, fig. 10 (detail of
figure of `Dareios').
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
