Decoration: A: AMAZONS IN SCYTHIAN CAPS, SOME LEADING HORSES, ONE WITH WRITING TABLET B: YOUTHS IN PETASOI, CHLAMYDES AND BOOTS, WITH SPEARS, LEADING HORSES I: WARRIOR (AJAX OR ACHILLES) PLAYING, KNEELING
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, private, Herbert Cahn: HC133
Previous Collections:
Philadelphia (PA), market
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1626,1708 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 332 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 174 Ellinghaus, C., Die Parthenonskulpturen, Der Bauschmuck eines öffentlichen Monumentes der demokratischen Gesellschaft Athens zur Zeit des Perikles, Techniken in der bildenden Kunst zur Tradierung von Aussagen (Hamburg, 2011): FIG.184 (PART) Fehr, B., Becoming Good Democrats and Wives. Civic Education and Female Socialization on the Parthenon Frieze, Hephaistos Sonderband (Vienna, Zurich, Berlin, and Münster, 2011): 27, FIGS.14A-D (A, B) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 518, FIG.352 (A) Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 90 (2021) 649, FIG.7 (COLOUR OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.100, ACHILLEUS 419 (I) Lissarrague, F., L'Autre Guerrier, Archers, Peltastes, Cavaliers dans l'Imagerie Attique (Paris-Rome, 1990): 224, FIG.126 (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Neils, J., The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge, 2001): 129, FIG.91 (B) Revue Archeologique: 1973, 3-7, FIGS.1-6 (I,A,B)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF cup. Near Thalia Painter (Beazley). Last quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: Achilles and Ajax playing: one hero is preserved at a gaming table.
A-B: youths with horses: (on one side?): three youths with their horses move
toward a standing scribe (his head is lost), in a similar Thracian costume, with
open tablets and stylus poised to write.
CAVI Inscriptions: Ext.: between the scribe and the first horse: Μελανθι[--]{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} according to Cahn the name of the horse.
CAVI Comments: Ex Philadelphia Market. Clearly dokimasia.
