CAVI Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3607.
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG neck amphora. From Cerveteri. Unattributed{1}; Class of Cabinet des
Médailles 218. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Ajax with the body of Achilles. B: a citharode on a bema, between Doric
columns and cocks.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: To right of the body: ιλεοσ{2}. Between the helmets: ο. On Ajax' right:
nonsense: σιυσοσυτυ. B: nonsense: to left of the citharode: τυχναθσιυσ. On his
right: υσ[--]σι.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Beazley; not far off the Diosphos Painter in style and decoration, Mock
inscriptions in the manner of the Sappho Painter, Haspels. {2} [Αχ]ιλ[λ]εος, as
Masner rightly points out. Miswritten in the style of an illiterate. The Sappho
Painter has similar near-sense inscriptions among nonsense.
CAVI Comments: The inscriptions after Masner's text. The subject of B seems related to the
Panathenaea.
