Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 485.25 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ROMA, MUSEO NAZIONALE ETRUSCO DI VILLA GIULIA 4, 30,31,32, FIG.12, PLS.(2894,2895) 27.1-2, 28.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 452, FIG.380 (A, B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.344, POLYDEKTES (PART)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Cerveteri. Hermonax. Second quarter fifth. 470-460 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: A-B: Perseus (with the head of Medusa) and Polydektes.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Perseus' upper leg, left-aligned stoich. two-liner: hερμοναχς
| εγρα(φ)σεν{2}. B: left-aligned, not fully stoich. two-liner: hερμονα[χς] |
ε(β)ρ[α]φσεν{3}. A: B: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . / / . . . . . . . . . .
.. . . . . Under the foot, Gr. (see CVA).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Andreae cites: F(asti) A(rch). 6 (1951) 1465. {2} Beazley gives the first
sigma as four-stroke; my note has both sigmas as three-stroke. The phi: only
part of the circle is preserved. {3} the `beta' must be a miswritten Attic
gamma.
CAVI Comments: Attic alphabet.
CAVI Number: 7121
AVI Bibliography: Pallottino (1940), figs. ... — Andreae (1957), 251 n. 255 (mention){1}. —
ARV[2] (1963), 485/25. — G. Barbieri, CVA Villa Giulia 4, Italy 64 (1991), pls.
27-28, fig. 12; facs., p. 31.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
