Decoration: AMAZONOMACHY, AMAZON ON HORSEBACK, WITH PELTA, WARRIOR (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: SB4154
Previous Collections:
Paris, Musée du Louvre: SB4138
Paris, Musée du Louvre: SB4143
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 765.19 Bothmer, D. von, Amazons in Greek Art (Oxford, 1957): 194.10, PL.82.2A-B Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 83.3 (2014), 476, FIG.11 (COLOUR) Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 6723 Mediterranean Archaeology: 17 (2004) PL.5.2 LEFT
CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF RF RHYTON. FROM SUSA. SOTADES PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: FR. 1: SHIELD, ARM, HEAD AND μαχαιρα OF A WARRIOR (WHETHER A PERSIAN OR AN
AMAZON); HEAD AND NECK OF A HORSE; HEAD AND TORSO OF AN AMAZON. FR. 2: PART OF A
HEAD WITH AN ORIENTAL CAP; BEHIND, THE TAIL OF A HORSE APPARENTLY MOVING TO
LEFT{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: FR. 1: BETWEEN THE HEAD OF THE HORSE AND AND THE HAND HOLDING THE μαχαιρα:
Γυγαμις. FR. 2: TO RIGHT OF A HEAD: Οιγμε.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE DESCRIPTION IS TAKEN FROM BOTHMER; ARV[2] MERELY SAYS: AMAZONOMACHY.
CAVI Comments: + LOUVRE SB 4154. ACCORDING TO BOTHMER IT IS POSSIBLE THAT OTHER LOUVRE FRS.
BELONG: SB 4145 AND SB NO NUMBER (FROM RHYTA OR OTHER PLASTIC VASES, SEE ARV[2]
768/30-31); SB 4138 AND SB 4151 (FRS. OF RHYTON, ARV[2] 773). SEE ALSO
ROBERTSON. ALL ARE FROM SUSA. ON THE NAMES SEE BOTHMER: THE PAINTER MAY HAVE
KNOWN THE DESTINATION OF THE VASE AND HAVE USED ORIENTAL-SOUNDING NAMES. I TAKE
IT THE SUBJECT IS AN AMAZONOMACHY, BUT THE AMAZONS HAVE PERSIAN CHARACTERISTICS.
ATTIC WITH FOUR-STROKE SIGMA.
CAVI Number: 6724
AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — FR (1904–32), III, 92-93. — ROSTOVTZEFF (1941), PL. 12,3 (PART). —
BOTHMER (1957), 194/10, PL. 82,2A-B. — ARV[2] (1963), 765/19, 768/31. —
ROBERTSON (1992), 314 N. 192 (OTHER FRS. FROM SUSA).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
