Decoration: Body: AMAZON WITH BOW AND AXE, YOUTH LEANING ON STAFF, HERON
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: KA403
Previous Collections:
Meggen, private, Käppeli
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 23 (1980) PL.6.10.11 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 269.2, 1641 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 352 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 102 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 206 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BASEL, ANTIKENMUSEUM UND SAMMLUNG LUDWIG 3, 82-83, PL.(367) 55.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Jahrbuch der staatlichen Kunstsammlungen in Baden-Württemberg: 7 (1970) 9, FIGS.3-4 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.476, AMAZONES 285 (PART) Lissarrague, F., L'Autre Guerrier, Archers, Peltastes, Cavaliers dans l'Imagerie Attique (Paris-Rome, 1990): 185, FIG.107 (DRAWING) Mayor, A., The Amazons. Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (Princeton and Oxford, 2014): 135, FIG.8.1 (PARTS OF BD) Tölle-Kastenbein, R., Pfeil und Bogen im antiken Griechenland (Bochum, 1980): 137, PL.39 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: WG alabastron. Painter of New York 21.131{1}. Early fifth. Ca. 490 (Berger).
CAVI Subject: Amazon, frontal, face to left; at right, a youth leaning on his stick; behind
him, a heron{2}.
CAVI Inscriptions: To Amazon's left, starting near her head: (h)ο παις, retr. To her right, in a
similar position, facing the youth: καλος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} close to Group of Negro Alabastra. {2} The youth and the Amazon are not
connected, as Schefold in Meisterw. had thought (Theseus and Antiope?); see
Bothmer (1957), 152/70-73.
CAVI Comments: Ex Meggen, Käppeli 403. The heta is a smudge.
CAVI Number: 2019
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 269/2, 1641. — Berger (1963), D 4. — Para. (1971), 352. — V.
Slehoferova, CVA Basel 3, Switzerland 7 (1988), pl. 55,1-7. — Add.[2] (1989),
206.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
