Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND TRITON B: HIPPOMEDON (NAMED) WITH FLOWER AT ALTAR, WOMAN (NAMED) WITH HELMET AND GIRDLE
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 2014.7.1594
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 693.8BIS, 673, 672 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 140 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 86 Duby, G., Perrot, M. (eds.), Histoire des femmes (Plon, 1991): 194, FIG.19 (B, PART OF B) 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): 280, FIG.220 (B) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (B, PART OF B) Sassatelli, G. and Tagliente, A.R., Il viaggio oltre la vita. Gli etruschi e l'aldilà tra capolavori e realtà virtuale (Bologna, 2014): 195, NO.2 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From Cerveteri. Three-line Group. Last quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Triton. B: Departure of a Warrior: a warrior with shield and
lance places a flower on an altar; a woman faces him, holding a helmet and
girdle.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: in large letters: above the scene, filling the space between the
palmettes: Ονετοριδες καλος. To left of the scene: hερακλες. At right: χαιρε.
Below the last: Τριτον. B: in large letters: at left: Φιλον καλος. Above the
warrior: hιπ[π]ομεδον. Below the warrior's mouth, at some distance: ὄ̅ναχς
(invocation). Along the woman's back: Πολυκαστε.
CAVI Comments: Is Hippomedon here the ruler of Mycenae, one of the Seven against Thebes? (He
is praying.) Polycaste is apparently not known in this connection. Rho with
extended vertical. Three-stroke sigmas of different shapes.
