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)
