Decoration: A: JUDGEMENT OF PARIS, WITH STAFF, HERMES, APHRODITE WITH FLOWER, ATHENA, HERA B: HORSEMAN IN THRACIAN CLOAK BETWEEN MEN, ONE WITH SPEARS, ONE DRAPED, WITH STAFF, DOG
Last Recorded Collection: Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: L186
Previous Collections:
Würzburg, Universität, Martin von Wagner Museum: 186
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 271.77 Burow, J., Der Antimenesmaler, Kerameus 7 (Mainz, 1989): PLS.95, 160G, NO.95 (A, B, SIDE) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 443, FIG.281 (B) Mugione, E. and Benincasa, A. (eds.), L'Olpe Chigi, Storia di un agalma, Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Salerno, 3-4 giugno 2010 (Salerno, 2012): 118, FIG.24C (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From Vulci. Antimenes Painter. Last quarter sixth. Phase 2:
520-515 (Burow).
CAVI Subject: A: Judgment of Paris. B: a youth on horseback between two men.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under the foot, Gr.: ΑΘΤΙ, retr.
CAVI Comments: This four-letter sign occurs frequently on vases of the period, mainly BF
hydriae; several are by the Antimenes Painter or possibly by him (see Burow and
Johnston (1979), 115/1D); the version without tau is found also with the
Euphiletos Painter. Johnston 204 argues against the mark being Etruscan, as has
been suggested (see 242, 1D n. 1); he thinks it is perhaps Aeginetan. He has 9
examples of ΑΘΙ and 14 of ΑΘΤΙ. He follows Nogara (1937), 451 in deriving the
word from Ατθις with metathesis. I have not included all instances in CAVI.
Johnston is not certain whether this is an adjective or a personal name [but he
seems to prefer the former]. Cartwheel theta, nearly rectangular but with
rounded corners.
CAVI Number: 8058
AVI Bibliography: Langlotz (1932), pl. 57. — ABV (1956), 271/77. — Johnston (1979), 115/1D, ii
11 and 204 (discussion). — Burow (1989), 90/95, fig. 6,1 (facs.), pls. 95 and
160,g.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
