Decoration: Body: HERAKLES AND KERBEROS, ATHENA, HERMES, OLD MAN WITH SCEPTRE (HADES), TREE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS Figure: HEAD OF WOMAN Shoulder: CHARIOT RACE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Amiens, Musée de Picardie: 3057.225.47A
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 384.25 , 696 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 102
CAVI Collection: AMIENS, MUSEE DE PICARDIE 3057.225.47A.
CAVI Lemma: BF HYDRIA. ACHELOOS PAINTER. LAST QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 515-510 (ROUEN CAT.).
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: CHARIOT RACE: TWO CHARIOTS. BODY: HERACLES AND CERBERUS: HERACLES;
ATHENA TURNING TO FACE HERMES; TWO-HEADED CERBERUS HELD BY HERMES; OLD MAN
(HADES?).
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: SHOULDER: UNDER LEFT CHARIOT-HORSES: χενγ^ι. SIMILAR UNDER THE
RIGHT HORSES: χγχ^πλι. BODY: TO RIGHT OF HERACLES' FACE: (χ)γι^ε. TO RIGHT OF
HIS MIDDLE: γχδ. BETWEEN H.' LEGS AND ATHENA'S SKIRT: δ(.)δχδο{2}. BETWEEN
ATHENA'S SKIRT AND CERBERUS: μκ(φ)^ογ(α), RETR.{3}. TO LEFT OF HERMES' FACE:
ιγχ, RETR. (OR χγι, NOT RETR.). TO RIGHT OF OLD MAN'S HEAD: σχγ (RESEMBLING
KIONEDON).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE LAST TWO ARE PROBABLY ONE INSCRIPTION, WITH HERACLES' RIGHT ARM
INTERVENING. {2} I CANNOT READ THE SECOND LETTER. {3} THE CLUB INTERVENES. THE
PHI RESEMBLES CIRCULAR PHI, EXCEPT THAT THE VERTICALS ARE NOT CENTERED; THIS IS
PROBABLY NOT A PHI BUT A RHO OR AN OMICRON.
CAVI Comments: ATTIC ALPHABET. ALPHA WITH SHORT VERTICAL STROKE? GAMMA POINTED AND WITH
UNEVEN LEGS.
