Decoration: A: FIGHT, WARRIORS, DEVICES, TRIPOD, DISCS, BETWEEN EYES B: WARRIOR LEADING WOMAN (MENELAOS AND HELEN ?) BETWEEN EYES Under handle: FIGHT, WARRIORS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 44.11.1
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 49 (1945) 529-30, FIGS.1-5 Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 3 (1944-45), 110-112 (B, SIDE) Carratelli, G.P. (ed.), Magna Grecia 3, Vita religiosa e cultura letteraria, filosofica e scientifica (Milan, 1988): 24, FIG.33 (PART) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 2, 15-16, PLS.(515,516,530) 25.39A-D, 26.39E-F, 40.39 View Whole CVA Plates Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 35, FIG.7 (A) Hephaistos: 16/17 (1998/99) 73, FIG.1 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.345, HELENE 291 (PART) Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 201, FIG.32.10 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF EYE CUP. FROM TARENTUM. UNATTRIBUTED. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. 540-530
(BLöSCH, JEFFERY).
CAVI Subject: EXT.: AT EACH HANDLE: A BATTLE. BETWEEN THE EYES: A: A WARRIOR LEADING AWAY A
WOMAN. B: TWO WARRIORS FIGHTING.
CAVI Inscriptions: UNDER THE FOOT, GRR.: Μελόσας · ἐμὶ · νι·κατέριον · χαίνοσα · τὰς κόρας ·
ἐνίκε. ON THE TOP SIDE OF THE FOOT, GR.: ΟΙ{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE NAME PIECE OF THE MELOUSA GROUP; WRONG READING. {2} I HAVE NOT SEEN
THE BULLETIN BUT CF. BULL. EP., CITED IN D]. {3} GIVEN BY RICHTER ONLY.
CAVI Comments: PROBABLY TARENTINE DIALECT AND SCRIPT. TRANSCRIPTION: Μελώσας ἠμὶ νικατήριον·
ξαίνωσα τὰς κόρας ἐνίκη. NIKATERION IS A NEW WORD. NOTE THE SINGLE-DOT
PUNCTUATION, WHICH IS ACHAEAN, NOT LACONIAN [TARENTUM IS LACONIAN] (JEFFERY). A
NOTE FROM BULL. éP. 1956, NO. 16: C.H.E. HASPELS, BULL. VER. ANTIKE BESCHAVING
29 (1954) 3-8: THE CONTEST IS OF EMBROIDERY (BRODERIE), AS THE FIRST EDITOR ALSO
THOUGHT AND NOT OF CARDING (CARDAGE).
CAVI Number: 5697
AVI Bibliography: BLöSCH (1940), 8{1}. — MILNE (1944–5), 110FF. — MILNE (1945), 528FF., FIGS.
1-5. — G. RICHTER, CVA NEW YORK 2, USA 11 (1953), PLS. 25-26, NO. 39,A-F (WITH
NOTE BY M. MILNE). — JEFFERY (1961), 280, 283/1, PL. 53. — GUARDUCCI (1967),
288F., FIG. 136. — ARENA (1989), 24/2. — VIERNEISEL–KAESER (1990), 201-202, FIG.
32.10.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
