CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary RF cup. Unattributed{1}. Late sixth. 510-500 (Hemelrijk).
CAVI Subject: Int.: fight: archer and fallen warrior{2}. A: Achilles and Memnon fighting
over a dead warrior; at left, Athena to right; Thetis. The Amsterdam fr. has
part of the helmet and the top of Memnon's head; also the edge of his shield;
finger tips of Eos. B: Achilles and Ajax playing a board game.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the head, but uneven: καλος Μεμνο(ν). The Amsterdam fr. has [--]ς
Με[--], while μνο(ν) is on the Bourguignon fr. (so Hemelrijk, who reads -μνος,
but I think it must be a sideways sigma){3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} not connected with Oltos. {2} Bothmer says probably not an Amazonomachy
as Beazley had thought earlier. {3} but my information from the dr. and Beazley
in JHS differs: one of the lost Bourguignon frs. has καλο[--], the Amsterdam fr.
gives [--]σΜε[--], the New York fr. has [--]εμνο(ν). The dr. has the last nu as
three-stroke sigma, which I distrust; the reverse nu shown in JHS is probably
correct.
CAVI Comments: + Amsterdam 2782 (permanent loan to New York), + Cab. Méd. (2 frs. ex
Froehner), + Once Naples, Bourguignon (2 frs.). - In JHS Beazley says that a
photo in DAI Athens shows the fr. [sic] when still in the Bourguignon collection
and a bit more, apparently with part of the love name Memnon. In CB, he says
that Memnon may be the καλος of Oltos, or more probably the hero depicted (see
CB for parallels to mythical kalos-names). In ARV[2] Beazley definitely refers
the inscription to the hero Memnon, [which is clearly right. It is a case of a
heroic kalos.] He says that drs. of the NY, Cab. Méd. and Bourguignon frs. are
in the Arch. seminar at Munich. - The Amsterdam fr.: F. Hauser, Arndt (no. 8164)
and The Hague, Scheurleer collections.
CAVI Number: 5544
AVI Bibliography: dr. — Hartwig (1893), 277 (one of Cab. Med. frs.). — Beazley (1931), 55/6
(not ill.). — CB (1931–63), ii, 16 (not ill.). — ARV[2] (1963), 1600, bottom. —
J.M. Hemelrijk, CVA Amsterdam 1, Netherlands 6 (1988), pl. 5,2 (Amsterdam fr.,
shows inscription), fig. 4 (facs. of inscription of Amsterdam fr. only).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
