Decoration: Body: WOMEN, SOME WITH HYDRIAI AND SPRIGS, SOME WITH FLOWERS, AT FOUNTAINHOUSE WITH PANTHER AND LION HEAD SPOUTS AND SNAKES Predella: HERAKLES AND THE LION, ATHENA (?) WITH FLOWER, IOLAOS WITH CLUB AND HERMES SEATED ON BLOCKS, BETWEEN COLUMNS Shoulder: WARRIORS WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, MEN WITH STAFFS, ONE OLD, ONE DRAPED, SEATED ON STOOLS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1836.2-24.169
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 276.1 Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 676, 678 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 121 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 72 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 6, III.H.E.8, PLS.(347,348) 88.2, 89.4 View Whole CVA Plates Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 117 (2002) 8, FIG.6 (BD AND PR) Kanowski, M.G., Containers of Classical Greece, A Handbook of Shapes (St. Lucia, London, and New York, 1983): 40 (BD) 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): 511, PL.22 (COLOUR OF BD) Neils, J., Women in the ancient world (London, 2011): 117 (COLOUR OF BD AND PR) Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1987): 72, FIG.12 (PART) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 20, FIG.9 (BD) Sparkes, B.A. and Talcott, L., Pots and Pans of Classical Athens, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Princeton, 1977): FIG.31 (PART OF BD) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art, Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 62, FIG.5 (COLOUR OF BD AND PR)
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Vulci. Manner of Antimenes Painter II. Last quarter sixth.
Ca. 520.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: warrior mounting a chariot. Body: women at the fountain (two girls
facing the fountain, two pairs leaving and one girl arriving).
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: above the girls at left: Καλ[λ]ι̣π[π]ε καλε. To right of their lower
bodies: Μ[ν]εσιλ[λ]α καλε{1}. Above the second pair: Ροδον. To right of their
lower bodies: Εγ̣εσιλ[λ]α καλε{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Kretschmer. Cf. B 333. {2} see Beazley in AJA, and Threatte (1980),
501 (stem ηγε-).
CAVI Comments: The last three girls are not named.
CAVI Number: 4286
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 8040. — Kretschmer (1894), 168. — Beazley (1929a),
362/3. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 6, Great Britain 8 (1931), III H e, pls. 88,2
and 89,4. — ABV (1956), 276/1, 676, 678. — Para. (1971), 121. — Add.[2] (1989),
72. — AttScr (1990), no. 973.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
