Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 51.11.3
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 119.6 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 48 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 3, 1-2, PL.(534) 2.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 102 (1987) 80, FIGS.16-17 (A, B) Mertens, J., How to read Greek vases (New York, 2010): 16, FIG.6 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF AMPHORA. FROM ATTICA. RELATED TO LYDOS (BEAZLEY). MID-SIXTH. LATE
(BEAZLEY).
CAVI Subject: A: A YOUTH ON HORSEBACK; AT LEFT, A FLYING EAGLE. B: (FRAGMENTARY:) SIMILAR,
BUT THE HORSE IS PRANCING.
CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE LIP, GRR.: A: ABOVE THE LEFT HANDLE, IN LARGE LETTERS:
Hι[]. B: IN THE SAME POSITION AND IN SIMILAR LETTERING: γε[]. POSSIBLY WITH
IONIC LAMBDA: λε[], BUT THE VASE IS SAID TO BE FROM ATTICA{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SCHEIBLER READS HΙ AND ΛΕ OR ΔΕ, BUT DOES NOT EXPLAIN.
CAVI Comments: THE INSCRIPTION ON A IS SURELY = Hι[ερος]. BOTHMER DOES NOT EXPLAIN THE
INSCRIPTIONS, BUT FOR THAT ON A HE REFERS TO HESP. 9 (1940) 187, FIG. 25, NO.
100. - Hι[] IS ALSO FOUND ON VILLA GIULIA 74,967, BF PANATHENAIC, NEAR THE
MASTOS PAINTER; SEE JOHNSTON (1979), 177/7 (BIBL.). - SCHEIBLER COMPARES ATHENS,
AGORA P 13,385, CAVI 468 [A HORSEHEAD AMPHORA, Q.V.], WITH DIP. Hι[] (THE HETA
INCOMPLETE). JOHNSTON, P. 6 THINKS THE GRR. ARE IN ATTIC SCRIPT; SEE HIS N. 17;
Hι[] SHOULD BE DEDICATORY. THE OTHER GR. IS UNEXPLAINED. - OPEN HETA.
CAVI Number: 5701
AVI Bibliography: CF. ROEBUCK (1940), 187/100, FIG. 25. — ABV (1956), 119/6. — D. VON BOTHMER,
CVA NEW YORK 3, USA 12 (1963), PL. 2; P. 1 (FACSS.). — PARA. (1971), 48. —
JOHNSTON (1979), 177/S.L. 1/4; 180/S.L. 3/1. — JOHNSTON (1979), 6 AND N. 17;
177/SUBS. LIST 1, 4 AND 180/SUBS. LIST 3, 1. — SCHEIBLER (1987), 79, FIGS.17,A-B
(A, B) [17A SHOWS ΛΕ].
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
