Decoration: A,B: YOUTH WITH SWORD, CENTAUR, WOMAN FLEEING (HERAKLES AND NESSOS ?), NONSENSE INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: 2139
Previous Collections:
Munich, Antikensammlungen: J706
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNICH, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN 10, 46, BEILAGE 7.6, PL.(2748) 26.5-9 View Whole CVA Plates Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 30, 136, FIGS.2.11, 19.6 (PART OF A) Wünsche, R. (ed.), Herakles, Herkules, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2003): 278, FIG.47.8, 414, CAT.153 (A, B, COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF lip cup. From Vulci. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Lip: A, B, each: plain. Handle zone: A: Heracles and Nessus: a youth with a
drawn sword attacking a fleeing centaur and a woman{1}. B: similar, but only the
hero is preserved.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: nonsense: imitation inscriptions: A: to left and right of the
scene: at left, three letters are extant; at right, nine letters, complete. B:
to left of the scene: eight letters, one missing in a break; the right-hand
portion is not preserved.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Fellmann does not think this is the Heracles myth.
CAVI Comments: = Jahn 706. Beazley in JHS 52 gives the wrong number (2169) (CVA).
CAVI Number: 5220
AVI Bibliography: Baur (1912), 30/73. — Beazley (1932), 183. — B. Fellmann, CVA Munich 10,
Germany 56 (1988), pl. 27,5-9, Beilage 7,6.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
