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) Wolf, S.R., Herakles beim Gelage, eine motiv- und bedeutungsgeschichtliche Untersuchung des Bildes in der archaisch-frühklassischen Vasenmalerei (Köln, 1993): FIGS.129-130 (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)
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