Decoration: A: HERAKLES RECLINING AND PHOLOS, CENTAURS, ONE WITH STONE, PITHOS, TREE, QUIVER SUSPENDED B: SYMPOSIUM, DIONYSOS RECLINING WITH DRINKING HORN, SATYRS WITH DRINKING HORN AND WINESKIN, ROCK I: KOMOS, MAN WITH SKYPHOS AND OINOCHOE
Last Recorded Collection: Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum: 8209
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: AMSTERDAM, ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM 1, 12-16, FIGS.8A-F, 60, PLS.(263-266) 8.3, 9.1-3, 10.1-4, 11.1-4 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): 64, FIG.45 (A, B) Lissarrague, F. and Thelamon, F. (eds.), Image et Ceramique Grecque (Rouen, 1983): AT 151, FIG.7 (A) Mededelingenblad, Vereniging van Vrienden van het Allard PiersonMuseum: 30 (1984), 39, FIG.48 (A) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 3 (I, A, B) Wolf, S.R., Herakles beim Gelage, eine motiv- und bedeutungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung des Bildes in der archaisch-frühklassischen Vasenmalerei (Köln, 1993): FIGS.129-130 (A) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art II, Inscriptions and Representations on Athenian Vases (Athens, 2024): 232, FIG.10 (A)
CAVI Subject: INT.: A BEARDED KOMAST WITH OINOCHOE AND SKYPHOS, RUNNING TO RIGHT. A: AT
RIGHT, DIONYSUS RECLINING; AT LEFT, A SATYR WITH DRINKING HORN TO RIGHT AND
SATYR NEAR A FULL WINESKIN TO LEFT. B: HERACLES RECLINING IN THE CAVE OF PHOLOS:
AT LEFT, TWO CENTAURS ATTACKING; AT RIGHT, TOP OF A PITHOS, WITH PARTIALLY
OPENED LID.
CAVI Inscriptions: READINGS FROM HEMELRIJK, CVA: NONSENSE: INT.: (AFTER FIG. 8,C:) ON THE
KOMAST'S LEFT, STARTING AT THE HEAD, AND CURVING DOWNWARD FOLLOWING THE MARGIN:
χαλοκ^εχ(.)(1); ON THE KOMAST'S RIGHT, STARTING AT HEAD, SIMILAR: χαλοεHο. A:
[NO DOUBT AT HEAD HEIGHT AND ROUGHLY HORIZONTAL:] FIG. 8,E: λοαχHροια; ALSO:
καλοι(.), RETR.{2}; ALSO TWO LETTERS AT SOME DISTANCE FROM THE PRECEDING AND
FROM EACH OTHER: κ AND >. B: [NO DOUBT SIMILAR TO A:] FIG. 8,F: (.)λοχχ; AND AT
A DISTANCE, `QUOTATION MARKS'. ON THE RIM OF THE PITHOS: [NO DOUBT IN BG:]
χ(σ)ο9λ), WITH ONE EMPTY SPACE AT RIGHT(3); ON THE RIM OF THE OPEN LID, WELL
SPACED: χHοεH. UNDER FOOT, GR. Hε [[LIG.]]{4}. READINGS FROM WOLF: THE PH., FIG.
130, SHOWS TO RIGHT OF HERACLES, AT THE RIGHT END OF THE SCENE, A HUGE PITHOS;
ABOVE IT, DIAGONALLY, A BAR WHICH LOOKS TO ME LIKE THE COVER WHICH HAS JUST BEEN
OPEED. ON THE COVER ARE LETTERS IN BG: χH(θ)εν. POSSIBLY ANOTHER LETTER IS
HIDDEN IN A SMUDGE. ON THE RIM OF THE PITHOS ITSELF ARE SIMILAR LETTERS:
[.]καλο(ι)χ, RETR. (TO JUDGE BY THE LAMBDA).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} A LEG INTERVENES; THE LAST LETTER A DOT. SHOULD BE RETR., BUT I DID NOT
NOTE IT. {2} THE LAST LETTER UNCLEAR. THE INSCRIPTIONS ON THE EXT. ARE
REPRODUCED VERY SMALL IN CVA, AND THE READINGS ARE NOT QUITE CERTAIN. {3} THIS
COULD BE READ RETR.; THE LETTER INDICATED BY 9 IS PROBABLY OMICRON S 8 OR 9 IN
THE CHART IN ATTSCR. {4} CF. JOHNSTON (1979), 11B, FIG. 4,F.
CAVI Comments: EX AMSTERDAM, SIX (NO. 29). - HEMELRIJK: "THE INSCRIPTIONS SEEM TO SHOW THAT
THE PAINTER COULD NOT WRITE VERY WELL: THEY ARE CORRUPTED FROM "KALOS" AND
PERHAPS "EPOIESEN"." - THE PITHOS, LEFT BY DIONYSUS, WAS TO BE KEPT CLOSED UNTIL
HERACLES ARRIVED (DIODORUS 4.12.3); WHEN OPENED IT ATTRACTED THE OTHER CENTAURS
WHICH LED TO THE BATTLE. SEE WOLF, PP. 171-72. ARE THE NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
PLACED ON THE PITHOS TO INDICATE DIONYSUS' COMMAND?
CAVI Number: 147D
AVI Bibliography: HEMELRIJK (1967), 12F./17, 27 AND 40. — SCHAUENBURG (1971), 47. — NOEL
(1983), 146FF., FIG. 7. — J.M. HEMELRIJK, CVA AMSTERDAM 1, NETHERLANDS 6 (1988),
PLS. 8,3 AND 9-11 (9,3 SHOWS THE GR.), FIGS. 8,A-F (8,A IS FACS. OF GR., 8,C,E,
AND F ARE FACSS. OF NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS) (BIBL.). — WOLF (1993), 42, 256,
215/RF. 15, FIGS. 129-30 (A). — LIMC VIII (1997), (SUPPL.) PHOLOS [[I.E. S.V.
KENTAUROI ET KENTAURIDES, BUT NOT FOUND]].
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
