Attributed To: FALLOW DEER P by BOTHMER TYRRHENIAN GROUP by BOTHMER
Decoration: A: CALYDONIAN BOAR (?), HUNTSMEN, YOUTHS WITH SPEARS AND TRIDENT, DOGS B: WARRIORS, FIGHTING, ONLOOKERS
Last Recorded Collection: Germany, private: 11
Previous Collections:
Helgoland, private, Kropatscheck
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Publication Record: Etudes de Lettres: 1983 (4), 17, FIG.7 (A) Guntner, G. et al., Mythen und Menschen, Griechische Vasenkunst aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung (Mainz, 1997): 29-31, NO.7 (A, B, AH) Hornbostel, W. et al., Aus Gräbern und Heiligtümern, Die Antikensammlung Walter Kropatscheck (Mainz, 1980): 69-71, NO.48 (A, B, SIDES) Kunst der Antike, Schätze aus norddeutschem Privatbesitz, Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (Mainz, 1977): 259-61, NO.235 (A, B, SIDES) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 63 (29.6.1983), PLS.8-9, NO.20 (A, B, SIDE) Wannagat, D., Archaisches Lachen, Die Entstehung einer komischen Bilderwelt in der korinthischen Vasenmalerei (Berlin and Boston, 2015): 115, FIG.102 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. Fallow Deer Painter (Bothmer). Third quarter
sixth. 560-550 (Schauenburg). Middle period (Kluiver).
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: A: Calydonian Boar Hunt. B: two duels of naked warriors; at right
three draped figures (one with a wreath, two with spears). Below: dot band;
lotus palmette frieze; animal frieze.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: shoulder: A: to right of the leftmost warrior's outstretched arm:
γογσγ. To right of the second warrior's forehead: λονονσγ̣{1}. Under the boar's
belly (and above a dying warrior): γογογσγ. Between the dog on top of the boar
and the first warrior to its right: λονογ(.){1}. B: between the legs of the
third warrior: νσ(.)[--]. Above the shields of the second pair of duelists:
υοσνσγ. To left of the upper part of the male with the wreath: (ι)ονσν. To left
of his lower legs: υουουο(σ){2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the last letter damaged. {2} this could also be read: γογογο(σ), retr.,
i.e. facing the figure.
CAVI Comments: Listed as Germany, Private in Hornbostel, Schätze [[1977]]; as Hamburg,
Kropatschek in the Kropatschek cat. [[1980]]; I have changed this to Helgoland.
[[Addenda:]] Listed as Basel Market. - The style of the inscriptions differs
from those of the Kropatschek cat. 73/49, by the same painter.
