Decoration: A: HYPNOS AND THANATOS CARRYING THE BODY OF SARPEDON, EIDOLON WITH SHIELD, DEVICE, DISCS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: EOS CARRYING (FLYING) THE BODY OF MEMNON, WARRIOR, DEVICE, SPHINX, BIRD
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 56.171.25
Previous Collections:
San Simeon (CA), Hearst Historical State Monument: 9846
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 509.137 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 248 Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 65, FIG.86 (A) Burgess, J.S., The Death and Afterlife of Achilles (Baltimore, 2009): 36-37 (A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 127 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 4, 67-69, PL.(779) 51.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Cottone, S.C. and Marcinkowski, A. (eds.), Clémence Ramnoux, Œuvres. Tomes I et II (Paris, 2020): I, AT P.20 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 124, FIG.100 (A) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 239.137 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.237, MEMNON 63 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.521, SARPEDON 8 (A) Peifer, E., Eidola und andere mit dem Sterben verbundene Flügelwesen in der attischen Vasenmalerei in spätarchaischer und klassischer Zeit (Frankfurt, 1989): PL.8, FIG.17 (DRAWING OF A) Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.43A (A) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 137, FIG.90 (A) Spivey, N., The Sarpedon Krater, The Life and Afterlife of a Greek Vase (Chicago, 2018): 154, FIG.42 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Diosphos Painter. First quarter fifth. Ca. 500 (Shapiro).
CAVI Subject: A: Hypnos and Thanatos, both wingless, with the body of Sarpedon (including
his eidolon). B: Eos with the body of Memnon; at left, Achilles(?).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: above the eidolon: ιχυλιχ{1}. Above Sarpedon's body: six
imitation letters ending in > (= sigma).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} an uncertain reading from Shapiro, fig. 90. CVA reads ιχυτιχ.
CAVI Comments: Ex Bourguignon and San Simeon, Hearst 9846. - For the Death of Sarpedon see
also: M. Robertson, Catalogue of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Vases in the Lady
Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight (1987) 39/42, pls. 42a-b, 43a-b and 44a-b: RF
oinochoe (mug), Port SunlightX 2250: unattributed, resemblance to early Dinos
Ptr. (Robertson).
CAVI Number: 5712
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 239/137. — ABV (1956), 509/137. — Friis Johansen (1967),
255/11a (mention). — Para. (1971), 248. — M.B. Moore and D. von Bothmer, CVA New
York 4, USA 16 (1976), pl. 51,1-2 (much bibl.). — Bothmer (1981), 74-75, figs.
78-79 (A, B). — Add.[2] (1989), 127. — Shapiro (1993), 247/70, 137, fig. 90 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
