Attributed To: LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY SAPPHO P by HASPELS
Decoration: A: SYMPOSIUM, HERAKLES RECLINING ON KLINE, DIONYSOS, SATYR WITH DRINKING HORN AND WINESKIN, DRAPED MAN PLAYING KITHARA, WOMAN, DOG, TABLE WITH FOOD, BASKET, CLUB, BOW AND QUIVER SUSPENDED, INSCRIPTIONS B: HERAKLES AND THE SONS OF EURYTOS (OLD MAN, NAMED), ARCHERS FALLEN (ONE NAMED), WARRIOR, WOMAN (IOLE, NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional: L65
Previous Collections:
Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional: 10916
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 508 Bollettino d'Arte: 133-134 (2005) 49, FIG.7 (B) Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: 37 (1990) PL.7A (PART OF B) Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.222 (B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MADRID, MUSEE ARCHEOLOGIQUE NATIONAL 1, IIIHE.8, PLS.(39-40) 21.3A-B, 22.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 218, FIG.85 (A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 833, NO.122 (PART OF B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.544, HERAKLES 1502 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.465, IOLE I2, 483, IPHITOS I3 (B) Pochmarski, E., Dionysische Gruppen, eine typologische Untersuchung zur Geschichte des Stützmotivs (1990): PL.1.1 (DRAWING OF A) Rivista di Archeologia: 19 (1995) FIG.3 (B) Wolf, S.R., Herakles beim Gelage, eine motiv- und bedeutungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung des Bildes in der archaisch-frühklassischen Vasenmalerei (Köln, 1993): FIGS.32-33 (A) Wünsche, R. (ed.), Herakles, Herkules, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2003): 248, FIG.40.3 (DRAWING OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Sappho Painter or closely related{1}. Late sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles at banquet, with Dionysus. B: Heracles and the sons of Eurytus.
CAVI Inscriptions: Mainly after Leroux: A: above D.'s head: Διο(ν)υσος [ΙN. The last three
letters vertical. {2}. To right of lyre: χιοιο{3}. To right of the reclining
Heracles, and above the head of the standing woman: κι – – ο{4}. B: above the
collapsing archer: τι^ονο, retr.{5}. Starting above Eurytus' head and ending
above Heracles': Ευρυτος, retr.{6}. Below the fallen archer's head and between
Eurytus' legs, which puts it to left of the second fallen warrior's body:
Ιφι^τος{7}. To left of the running warrior's face, in a curve around it and
facing it: Αντ[ι]φολο[ς], retr.{8}. In front of the woman, starting at the
shoulder, slanting downward and continuing vertically between her arms:
Ιολ^εα^(ς), retr.{9}. The readings of Alvarez-Ossorio differ from CVA's: A:
Διονυσος. B: Ευρυτος. τιονο. Ιφιτος. [Ιο][λ]ε[ι]ος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} emulates Leagros Group (ABV). {2} nu reversed; first three-stroke, second
sigma reversed. CVA: Διο(ν)υσο(ς) v. [ΙN. The last three letters vertical. {3}
interpreted by Leroux as χιοιο, sc. οινου. CVA: χιοιο. {4} Leroux: κιτο (pour
κιττου?). CVA shows: κι(.) and ο. {5} Eurytos' hand intervenes. {6} so the text;
the ph. seems to show: Ευ^[ρ]υτος, with the tip of Heracles' bow intervening.
{7} Leroux refers this to the fallen warrior at the right, no doubt because he
thinks of tiono as a garbled name of the fallen archer. But tiono could be a
nonsense word and Ifitos the archer's name leaving the other nameless. {8}
Leroux: `Αντφολο (pour Αντιφονος?)'. The letters run into the warrior's arm,
hence there was no room for the final sigma. Αντιφονος(?), CVA. Αντιφονος or
Αντιλοφος, Richter. {9} the two arms intervene. Leroux prints the final sigma as
a nu; I think from the ph. that it is sigma S 11 ([).
CAVI Comments: Is there confusion of Iole and Iolaus? There seems to be no trace of the
latter, although there is a curious object by Iole's neck into hich several
arrows have fixed themselves. Attic alphabet. The inscriptions mix sense and
nonsense.
CAVI Number: 4884
AVI Bibliography: Bienkowski (1899), 604. — Bienkowski (1900), 64ff., figs. 6-7. —
Alvarez-Ossorio (1910), 17 and 39, pls. 5 (A) and 19 (B) (The readings of
Alvarez-Ossorio differ from CVA's). — Leroux (1912), 39/65 (facss.), pls. 9-10
(B, A; pl. 9 shows inscriptions, pl. 10 shows location of some) (bibl.). — J.R.
Mélida, CVA Madrid 1, Spain 1 (1930), III H e, pl. 21,3a-c. — Haspels (1936),
116. — Richter–Hall (1936), i, 60, n. 6. — Boardman (1955), 62/under 28
(mention). — ABV (1956), 508. — Fehr (1971), 152 and 175. — Romero Olmos (1977),
pls. 32-34,b (A,B, parts). — Schefold (1978), 148 , fig. 199 (B). — LIMC i
(1981), 861, Antiphonos, pl. 687 (B). — Add.[2] (1989), 126 (bibl.). — AttScr
(1990), no. 1051. — Pochmarski (1990), 269/V 1, pl. 1,1 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
