Decoration: A: WARRIOR DEPARTING (AJAX), WOMAN, OLD MAN, ARCHER, WARRIORS, BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICES, LION, TRISKELES B: DIONYSOS WITH VINE AND KANTHAROS BETWEEN MAENADS WITH SNAKE AND KROTALA, ONE IN LEOPARD SKIN, ONE IN WOLF (?) SKIN, AND SATYRS, ONE WITH DRINKING HORN I: YOUTH WITH HYDRIA
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E16
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1599.14 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 61.75 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 39.60 Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: 38 (1991-1993) PL.4 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 81 Carpenter, T. and Faraone, C.A., (eds.), Masks of Dionysos (Cornell, 1993): 46, FIG.1 (B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 165 Jameson, M. (ed.), Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece. Essays on Religion and Society (Cambridge, 2014): 64, FIG.4.1 (B) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 826, NO.10 (PART OF A) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 521, PL.36 (COLOUR OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.233, AIAS I 14 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.593, ERIBOIA 5 (PART OF A) Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): FIG.12 (A-B) The Art Bulletin: 19 (1937) 540 (I)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci. Oltos. Last quarter sixth. 520-510.
CAVI Subject: Int.: boy lifting a hydria. A: departure of Ajax, with a chariot. B: Dionysus
with maenads and satyrs.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: in a circle, starting to left of the youth's forehead and facing out:
Μεμνον καλος. A: above the old man: [1-2](.)ρ(α)λος{1}. Αιας{2}. Between Ajax'
legs: χ(α)τσο, the σο perhaps separate. To right of a woman's face: ΑΤΟΛ(Ε).
Above a warrior: Μεμ̣[μ]νον and καλος. αυκ, complete(2)? B: ΕΛΑ is clear once.
Other inscriptions are similar, all short.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} C. Smith suggests [Πα]ραλος, but Beazley in AJΑ says it is doubtful
whether there was ever anything before the rho [see however my reading; I
thought the first extant letter probably an iota]; Beazley rightly suggests that
the inscription may be meaningless. Smith himself suggests that the old man is
Telamon. {2} the location not noted by me.
CAVI Comments: Hard to read. Extremely sloppy writing; it is hard to tell what is sense and
what is nonsense. Lissarrague says that the vase has Αιας καλος, but that is not
what I read.
CAVI Number: 4431
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7655. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 51-52 (not
ill.). — Beazley (1935), 480/9. — ARV[2] (1963), 61/75. — Add.[2] (1989), 165. —
AttScr (1990), no. 344. — Lissarrague (1990), 108.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
