Decoration: A: AJAX CARRYING THE BODY OF ACHILLES, BOTH WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, BETWEEN WOMAN, SHIELD DEVICES, DISCS, SNAKES B: WARRIORS DEPARTING, WOMAN, SHIELD DEVICES, SNAKE, DOLPHIN, DISCS (PENELOPE AND ODYSSEUS ?)
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 26.60.20
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 152.2 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 93 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 4, 51-53, PL.(771) 43.5-8 View Whole CVA Plates
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From Vulci. Painter of London B 235. Third quarter sixth.
Ca. 530 (Bothmer).
CAVI Subject: A: Ajax with the body of Achilles. B: warriors and a woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under the foot, Gr.: ΠΟΜ. Johnston thinks a possible use of san. [Meaning
M-shaped sigma?] Also a rhomboid omicron.
CAVI Comments: Combining CVA and Johnston (1979): πο[ικιλα] Μ. M = san = 200. Johnston
compares coins of Poseidonia.
CAVI Number: 5643
AVI Bibliography: Para. (1971), 152/2 (wrong number; bibl.). — M.B. Moore and D. von Bothmer,
CVA New York 4, USA 16 (1976), pl. 46,5-8, p. 52 (facs.). — Johnston (1979), 23,
under sigma and n. 7. — Add.[2] (1989), 93.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
