Decoration: Body: ACHILLES, LYING IN AMBUSH, AND TROILOS, POLYXENE WITH HYDRIA, AT FOUNTAIN, RAVEN, YOUTH, WARRIOR Shoulder: GORGON WITH SNAKE PURSUING PERSEUS, ATHENA, WOMAN, BOTH WITH WREATHS, BETWEEN SPHINXES
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 3614
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 106 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 43 Borchardt, J. (ed.), Götter, Heroen, Herrscher in Lykien (Vienna and Munich, 1990): 143, NO.34 (S) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 29 Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 87, FIG.44 (SH) Jameson, M. (ed.), Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece. Essays on Religion and Society (Cambridge, 2014): 36, FIG.29 (SH) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.351, PRONOMOS 2 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.808, SPHINX 222 (S) Reschke, E., Die Ringer des Euthymides (Stuttgart, 1990): PL.8.1 (PART OF S) Schefold, K., Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der Früh- und Hocharchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1993): 307, FIG.337 (PART) Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 154, FIG.2 (BD)
CAVI Collection: VIENNA, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 3614.
CAVI Lemma: BF HYDRIA. FROM CERVETERI. NEAR TYRRHENIAN GROUP III. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
550-530.
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: PERSEUS PURSUED BY A GORGON, BETWEEN SPHINXES. BODY: ACHILLES AND
TROILOS, WITH POLYXENA AND AN EXTRA MALE FIGURE HOLDING BACK THE HORSE ON WHICH
TROILOS(?) SITS; AT RIGHT, A HOPLITE.
CAVI Inscriptions: SHOULDER: ALL RETR.: Θ(ε)τες. Ποϙο(μ)ες. Οετος. Θ̣οτες. Χεμεσο. Πε(ρ)[ρ]ευς.
Σεποσ(ν)(ε)ς. ](ε)πες. Τεμεο̣θν{1}. BODY: Τροιλος, RETR. Φοκος, RETR. UNDER THE
HORSE'S BELLY: NONSENSE: λοσιοστ. ABOVE THE HORSE, BEHIND THE RIDER'S BACK:
THREE LETTERS.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} DONE AFTER MASNER'S FACSIMILES. ](ε)πες HE THINKS TO BE INTENDED FOR
Ερμης; Οετος IS UNDER THE RIGHT HAND OF THE GORGO AND IS INTENDED FOR κητος
[SIC]; SEE MASNER FOR FURTHER SPECULATIONS.
CAVI Comments: EX OEST. MUS. 221. "THE SHOULDER PICTURE IS NEARER THE TYRRHENIAN GROUP THAN
THE CHIEF ONE," ABV. CF. VIENNA 3613 FOR THE INSCRIPTIONS. JOHNSTON MENTIONS THE
READING Πορομος AS A PARALLEL TO A CORINTHIAN INSCRIPTION WHICH HE READS:
Πορο̣[--]. IT IS THE NAME OF A BYSTANDER IN THE SCENE OF PERSEUS AND THE
GORGONS. ONE WONDERS WHETHER ON THIS AND VIENNA 3613 THE INSCRIPTIONS ON THE
SHOULDER AND THE BODY ARE BY THE SAME HAND; THEY CERTAINLY DO NOT FOLLOW THE
SAME MODEL.
