Decoration: A: DEATH OF ACHILLES, AJAX WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, MENELAOS, BLACK YOUTH WITH CLUB (ALL NAMED), DEVICES, LEOPARD WITH SNAKE, DOG B: DEATH OF ANTILOCHOS, RUNNING MEN, ONE WITH PELTA, ARCHER, WARRIORS (ONE NAMED, EUPHORBOS), ANTILOCHOS FALLEN (NAMED), DEVICE, RAVEN
Last Recorded Collection: Philadelphia (PA), University of Pennsylvania: 3442
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 128.1 (2024) 79, FIG.21 (COLOUR OF PART OF A) American Journal of Archaeology: 97 (1993) 355 Antike Kunst: 55 (2012), PL.6, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 145.14 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 60 Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 31, FIG.19 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 40 Expedition, Bulletin of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania: 35 (1993) 2, 45, FIGS.7A-B (A, DRAWING OF A) Expedition, Bulletin of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania: 36 (1994) 2-3, A22 (A) Expedition, Bulletin of the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania: 54.3 (WINTER 2012) 33 (COLOUR OF B) Fullerton, M.D., Greek Art (Cambridge, 2000): 71, FIG.51 (PART OF A) Grabow, E., Schlangenbilder in der griechischen schwarzfigurigen Vasenkunst (Paderborn, 1998): PL.26.K134 (DRAWING OF A) Kurtz, D. (ed.), Essays in Classical Archaeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou 1977-2007 (Oxford, 2008): 94, FIG.7 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.29, EUPHORBOS III 1 (PART OF B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.364, MENELAOS 41 (A) Lissarrague, F., L'Autre Guerrier, Archers, Peltastes, Cavaliers dans l'Imagerie Attique (Paris-Rome, 1990): 74, FIG.37 (DRAWING OF A) Mackay, E.A., Tradition and Originality, A Study of Exekias (Oxford, 2010): PLS.69-71, CHARTS 1.6, 2.2, 2.3, 3.6, 8.1, 10.1 (A, B, UH, PARTS) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 355, FIG.246 (DRAWING OF A) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 159-160, FIGS.3-4 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1987): 150, FIG.7; 159, FIG.4 (A, DRAWING OF PART OF A) Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.6B (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias hat mich gemalt und getöpfert, Ausstellung in der Archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 9.11.2018-31.3.2019 (Zurich, 2018): 277-281, FIGS.198-202 (COLOUR) Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias und seine Welt, Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 1.–2. März 2019, Züricher Archäologische Forschungen 8 (Zurich, 2022): PLS.28, 33, 49E (COLOUR OF A AND B, DRAWING OF PART OF A) Steiner, A., Reading Greek Vases (Cambridge, 2007): 22-23, FIGS.2.5-2.6 (A, B) Technau, W., Exekias (Leipzig, 1936): PL.23 (A, B) The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania: 6 (1915) 91-92, FIGS.68-69 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
CAVI Collection: Philadelphia, University Museum 3442.
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF amphora. From Orvieto. Exekias. Third quarter sixth. 540-530.
CAVI Subject: A: Menelaus fighting a African (Amasos); Ajax lifting the dead body of
Achilles. B: Death of Antilochos.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above Amasos: Αμασος. To right of Menelaus' raised arm: Μενελαος. Above
Achilles' body: [Αχ]ιλεος, retr.{1}. B: To left of the prostrate body:
Α̣ντιλοχος, retr. To right of the rightmost of three warriors: Ευφορβος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Ajax' name is lost.
CAVI Comments: Beazley in ABV combines both scenes on A as: death of Achilles - Ajax lifting
the body. `Gallery' says: Scenes from the Aethiopis: A: Menelaus fights the
Egyptian king Amasis; Ajax lifting the body of Achilles. [But Amasos does not
look like a king.] Threatte discusses the irregular Attic gen. of names with
foreign associations: perhaps Αμασ[ι]ος, Αμασ[ιδ]ος or Αμασ[ε]ος (the regular
form is Αμασιδος). He also cites as a "slight possibility" my suggestions that
the name is nom. For the lettering of Exekias, see AttScr. Amasos occurs in a
fourth-century funerary inscription, Peek, AM 59 (1934) 54/12a. A dr. in
Beazley's possession shows a triangular rho.
CAVI Number: 6798
AVI Bibliography: Hall (1915), 91-92. — Dev.[1] (1951), 68-69 and 113, pl. 30. — ABV (1956),
145/14. — Para. (1971), 60. — Dev.[2] (1986), pl. 69,1-2 (A, B). — Add.[2]
(1989), 40. — AttScr (1990), no. 138. — White (1995), A 22 (A). — Threatte
(1996), 108. — Steiner in (1997), 159, figs. 4 (A) and 3 (B) (drs. showing
inscriptions).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
