Decoration: A: HERAKLES MOUNTING PLATFORM WITH KITHARA, CLOTH AND QUIVER SUSPENDED, CLUB, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: SATYR RECLINING ON ALTAR PLAYING PIPES, (JUDGEMENT) PARIS, HERMES, BOTH CROUCHING, BULLS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: G240
Previous Collections:
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 211
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: V211
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 484.9 , 700 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 122 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: OXFORD, ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 3, 10-11, PL.(637) 22.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates Gardner, P., Museum Oxoniense, Catalogue of the Greek Vases in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1893): PL.1A (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 128, FIG.106 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.540, HERAKLES 1447 (A) Panvini, R. and Giudice, F. (eds.), Ta Attika, Attic Figured Vases from Gela (Rome, 2003): 284.F17 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From Gela. Unattributed; Dot-Band Class. First quarter
fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles citharoedus mounting a platform; at left, his cloak and quiver
hung up; in front of him, on the platform, his club propped up diagonally. B: an
unclear scene: a bearded satyr, seated on top of a large stepped block, perhaps
an altar, leans against a wineskin and plays the flutes; to left and right of
the block are remains of a different scene, variously interpreted (at left,
human'legs; at right, animal (goat) heads to right); see CVA, p. 11.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: to left of Heracles' head, at top of scene: 4 letters, mostly
dots(?). Along Heracles' back, probably not facing him and not retr.:
χοεκ^χο{1}. Between Heracles' legs: χοε. To right of the cithara, perhaps
curved: at least 3 letters, probably more. Along the club, also not retr. and
hence upside down: χοτεχο. B: above the satyr's raised leg: (ο̣)ο(.)(.)(π).
Behind the satyr's back: χοε(κ)χσ{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so the ph. and text in CVA; part of the quiver intervenes. {2} the kappa
is unclear.
CAVI Comments: = G 240. Small. Leagran-type nonsense.
CAVI Number: 5875
AVI Bibliography: Gardner (1906), 226-28 (dr. after JHS 13). — ABV (1956), 484/9, 700. — J.
Boardman, CVA Oxford 3, Great Britain 14 (1975), pl. 22,1-3. — Add.[2] (1989),
122.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
