Decoration: A: HERAKLES (?) ATTACKING CENTAUR WITH SWORD (NESSOS ?) B: CENTAUROMACHY, WARRIOR AND CENTAUR
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 41.162.103
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), Gallatin
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, HOPPIN AND GALLATIN COLLECTIONS, 3, PL.(022) 2.14.16 View Whole CVA Plates Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 3, 2-3, PL.(536) 4.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.424, KENTAUROI ET KENTAURIDES 166 (A, B) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 459, FIG.330 (A, B) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 3 (A, B, DRAWING OF B)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Unattributed. Second half sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: a Lapith fighting a centaur. B: similar (partly destroyed).
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: to left of the Lapith's leg: κ̣υκ(ν).(1),{2}. To right of the
centaur's chest: κι̣υ{2}. Under his belly: (.)υκ(.)ι̣{2}. To right of his back:
κυκισ̣{3}. B: κνκνκν̣[κ]ν̣{4}. Between the Lapith's legs: (.)(.)υ̣α{2}{5}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the last letter looks more like a gamma. {2} not given in CVA. {3} κυκισ,
CVA. {4} κνκνκν̣[--, CVA. {5} much damaged.
CAVI Comments: Ex Gallatin. The letters are much damaged by flaking.
CAVI Number: 5679
AVI Bibliography: J. Hoppin and A. Gallatin, CVA Hoppin & Gallatin, USA 1 (1926), p. 3 (facs.),
pl. 2,14. — D. von Bothmer, CVA New York 3, USA 12 (1963), pl. 4,1-4.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
