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.
