Decoration: A: HERAKLES (WITHOUT LIONSKIN) AND ANTAIOS (OLD), ATHENA, QUIVER AND CLOTH SUSPENDED FROM TREE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: HERMES AND BULLS (THE CATTLE OF APOLLO OR GERYON ?), NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS Under handle: BIRD (SWAN ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 7030
Previous Collections:
Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 4448
Publication Record: Alessio, A. et al., Catalogo del Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto I,2 (Taranto, 1990): PL.2 (COLOUR OF B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 518 Borgers, O., The Theseus painter, style, shapes and iconography, Allard Pierson Series 16 (Amsterdam, 2004): FIGS.22, 31, 47, PL.6A-B (A, B, DRAWINGS OF PARTS OF A AND B, PROFILE) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: TARANTO, MUSEO NAZIONALE 2, III.H.E.6, PL.(877) 11.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates D'Amicis, A. et al., Catalogo del Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto I.3, Atleti e Guerrieri, Tradizioni aristocratiche (Taranto, ca. 1994): 52, 56, 228-229, NO.42.18 (INCLUDING COLOUR OF PARTS OF A AND B) Dell'Aglio, A., and Zingariello, A. (eds.), MARTA, Il Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto (Taranto, 2010): 53 BOTTOM (COLOUR OF A AND B) Dell’Aglio, A. and Zingariello, A., MARTA. Il Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto (Taranto, 2019): 53 BOTTOM (COLOUR OF A AND B) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 250.17 Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.6.3-5 (PART OF A, B, UH) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 858, NO.617 (PART OF A) Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.75 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.221, HERMES 246 (B) Lippolis, E., Gli eroi di Olimpia, lo sport nella societa Greca e Magnogreca (Taranto, 1992): 20, FIG.9 (COLOUR OF A) Phritzilas, S., Ho Zographos tou Thisea, I attiki angeigraphia stin epochi tis neosystatis athenaikis demokratias (Athens, 2006): PL.11.23 (A, B) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 193, FIG.236 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF skyphos. From Tarentum. Theseus Painter. Ca. 500.
CAVI Subject: A: four oxen led by Hermes. B: Heracles and Alkyoneus, with Athena{1}. Under
each handle: storks or herons.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: imitation inscriptions: above the left-most ox: (.)(.)τ(ν).
Between Hermes and an ox at right: οιγ^νο{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CVA, following Philippart and Haspels, interprets B as Antaeus; Andreae,
following Brommer, as Alkyoneus. Brommer pointed out that A suggested Alkyoneus.
{2} Hermes' kentron intervenes.
CAVI Comments: These are not real letters. A similar row of imitation letters is found on
Berlin 3283, by the Theseus Painter.
CAVI Number: 7614
AVI Bibliography: Philippart (1932–3), ii, 54. — Haspels (1936), [[250/]] no. 17. — C. Drago,
CVA Taranto 2, Italy 18 (1942), III H e, pl. 11,1-2. — ABV (1956), 518/17. —
Para. (1971), 255. — Brommer (1973), 6/15.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
