Decoration: A1: AMPHIARAOS DEPARTING, MOUNTING CHARIOT, WOMEN, ONE ERIPHYLE (?), YOUTH, DRAPED MAN (?), OLD MAN SEATED, WARRIORS B1: HEPHAISTOS LEADING WOMAN (PANDORA ?) ON MULE, TO OLYMPOS, ZEUS SEATED ON CHAIR WITH THUNDERBOLT, WOMEN (GODDESSES ?), GOD (?)
Last Recorded Collection: Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig: T3323
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 96.9 Bentz, M. and Kästner, U. (eds.), Konservieren oder restaurieren, Die Restaurierung griechischer Vasen von der Antike bis heute, Beiheft zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland III (Munich, 2007): 72, FIGS.4-7, PL.7.4 (A, COLOUR OF A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 25 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LEIPZIG, ANTIKENMUSEUM DER KARL MARX UNIVERSITAT 2, 12-13, PLS.(67,68) 6.1, 7.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Crouwel, J.H., Chariots and other Wheeled Vehicles in Iron Age Greece, Allard Pierson Series 9 (Amsterdam, 1992): PL.28.2 (DRAWING OF PART OF A1) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 427, FIG.267 (A1) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.237, HALIMEDES 2 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.404, HEPHAISTOS 231 (PART OF B) Paul, E., Schwarzfigurige Vasen, Kleine Reihe des Antiken-Museums der Universität Leipzig, 1 (1995): 8-9, NO.3 (COLOUR OF A AND B1)
CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. From Cerveteri. Unattributed (in Beazley);
Kyllenios Painter (Paul, CVA). Second quarter sixth (?). 560-550 (?).
CAVI Subject: A: Amphiaraus leaving home in a chariot. B: in the center, Zeus seated,
conversing with Hephaestus; at left: a veiled woman; Dionysus; two women
gesticulating; at right, Hermes, a mule cart with a seated woman between a woman
and a sea god{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A, B, each: small-nonsense inscriptions: imitation letters. A: seven
inscriptions, including an inscription beneath Zeus' throne. B: at least three
inscriptions. E.g.: B: before Zeus' legs: εο(σ)ο(.).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Hephaestus bringing Pandora to Olympus? (Rumpf). Höckmann: Thetis before
her marriage to Peleus. Brommer: prior to the Birth of Athena, or wedding of
Hephaestus and Aphrodite. Meyer thinks: wedding of Hephaestus and Pasithea, a
sister of Amphitrite and daughter of Nereus. At right are visitors to Olympus:
Doris, Pasithea, Nereus; at left are Olympians.
CAVI Comments: The writing does not look like the Kyllenios Painter's. Sigma = [.
CAVI Number: 4167
AVI Bibliography: Photos. — Bothmer (1944), 166/6. — ABV (1956), 96/9. — E. Paul, CVA Leipzig
2, East Germany 2 (1973), pls. 6-7. — Höckmann (1977), 181ff. — Brommer (1978),
pl. 12,2 (A). — H. Meyer (1982), 617-20, figs. 1-2 (B, side; bibl.). — Add.[2]
(1989), 25.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)