Attributed To: KAULOS by SIGNATURE SAKONIDES by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A,B: DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE SEATED ON STOOL (KING), NIKE WITH WREATH, YOUTHS, SOME DRAPED, SOME WITH SPEARS, HORSEMEN, WOMEN, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 6221
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 171 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 71 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 48 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: TARANTO, MUSEO NAZIONALE 3, III.C.8, FIGS.6-7, PL.(1576) 33.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates D'Amicis, A. et al., Catalogo del Museo Nazionale Archeologico di Taranto I.3, Atleti e Guerrieri, Tradizioni aristocratiche (Taranto, ca. 1994): 255, NO.61.2 (PART OF A) Heesen, P., Athenian Little-Master Cups (Amsterdam, 2011): 114, FIG.68, 118, FIG.70C, 247, FIG.127.191, PL.54A-C (A, B. PART OF A, PART, UH, AH) Pellegrini, E., Eros nella Grecia arcaica e classica, iconografia e iconologia (Rome, 2009): PL.12 (PART OF A OR B)
CAVI Collection: TARENTUM, MUSEO NAZIONALE I.G. 6221.
CAVI Lemma: BF BAND CUP. FROM LEPORANO. SAKONIDES. KAULOS, POTTER. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
550-530.
CAVI Subject: A: A MALE WITH A WOMAN AND A YOUTH; A KING SEATED, WITH NIKE, A WOMAN AND A
YOUTH; A HORSEMAN WITH A WOMAN AND A YOUTH. B: SIMILAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS, E.G.: ABOVE THE HORSE'S HEAD: μαισεσ. εχσει.
ετχ[.]χι(ν)ι, RETR. χει(θ)τρ, RETR. σιχο. επιχσι. ετχοσχο, RETR. χσοσχο{1}.
UNDER ONE HANDLE: Καυλ̣ος | εποιεσεν. UNDER THE OTHER: Σακονιδες | εγραφσεν. THE
SIGNATURES ARE EACH A TWO-LINER, NOT STOICH., THE LINES RATHER FAR APART. FIG. 7
SHOWS: Κ(α)υλ̣ος [ε]ποι̣εσεν. FIG. 6: THE SAKONIDES SIGNATURE IS CLEAR; LINE 2
STARTS TO LEFT OF LINE 1 BY ONE LETTER SPACE.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} B SHOULD BE SIMILAR.
CAVI Comments: A MULTIFIGURED CUP. ON THE HANDS CONNECTED WITH SAKONIDES, SEE ATTSCR.
BEAZLEY IN ABV 172 NOTES THAT LOUVRE F 150, BF PYXIS, IS CLOSE AND PROBABLY BY
THE SAME HAND [IT HAS VERY SIMILAR NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS]. BEAZLEY IN PARA.:
ONLY THE FOURTH LETTER OF THE `KAULOS' SIGNATURE IS DOUBTFUL; THE SECOND LETTER
MAY BE [A POINTED ALPHA]. THIS IS IN ANSWER TO ABV, WHERE IT IS SAID THAT THE
LAST THREE LETTERS OF THE NAME ARE HARD TO READ.
