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)
