CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. From Marciano in Valdichiana.
Prometheus Painter [Bothmer]{1}. Third quarter sixth. 550-530. Middle period
(Kluiver).
CAVI Subject: A: Calydonian boar hunt. B: four youths on horseback. Below: A and B, each:
three animal friezes, sirens.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: between the legs of a man at left: Πελευς{2}. Along the boar's mane, near
the front man: Μ̣ελεαγρος, retr. Under the boar's belly, over a fallen man:
Ανκα[ι]ος, retr. Between the legs of a dog: illegible inscription{3}. In front
of Kastor's lower body: Καστορ, retr. B: under the first, third and fourth
horses: (.)(.)(.)ιπ[π]ος{4}. (.)ιρες. Μι(.)[--]. [[Alternate reading, from
Ruijgh/Kluiver:]] A: Πελευς. [Μ]ελεαγρος, retr. Ανκαος, retr. [sic] Γοργ̣ος,
retr.{5}. Καστορ, retr. B: [Ορ[ρ]ι]π[π]ος{6}. [Χαι]ρες. Μ[--].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so K., but it is not listed in Para. {2} so Furtw. {3} see the facs. in
Furtw. {4} Furtw.: ..υιι(π)πος. {5} this reading is said to be better than
[Γ]ορ[α]ος. {6} also on Conservatori 85 (CAVI 6951) and Cerveteri (CAVI 3127a),
Kluiver no. 17, both attributed to the same painter; also on a lip cup signed
Xenokles: see Boston 98.921, CAVI 2667.
CAVI Comments: Berlin West.
CAVI Number: 2212
AVI Bibliography: BADB 310,016. — Furtwängler (1885), no. 1705 (facs.). — ABV (1956), 96/16. —
H. Mommsen, CVA Berlin 5, Germany 45 (1980), pls. 15, 16,4-8, Beilage C. —
Add.[2] (1989), 25. — Kluiver (1995), 59/8 and 65/8 (inscriptions done by C.J.
Ruijgh), fig. 7.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
