Attributed To: EXEKIAS by SIGNATURE GROUP E by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND GERYON, EURYTION FALLEN IN NEBRIS AND PILOS (ALL NAMED) B: WARRIOR IN CHARIOT, SIREN (ALL NAMED) Lid: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SIRENS, DEER, INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F53
Previous Collections:
Unknown, private, Durand Collection
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 136.49, 686, 674 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 55 Bentz, M. (ed.), Vasenforschung und Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum I (Munich, 2002): 30, 32, FIGS.10, 10A (B, PROFILE) Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 115, FIG.68 (LD) Brinkmann, V., Beobachtungen zum formalen Aufbau und zum Sinngehalt der Friese des Siphnierschatzhauses (Ennepetal, 1994): 105, FIG.B (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Böhm, S., Sphingen und Sirenen im archaischen Griechenland, Symbole der Ambivalenz in Bildszenen und Tierfriesen (Regensburg, 2020): 156, FIG.28 (COLOUR OF B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 36 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 3, III.He.13, PLS.(156-157) 19.1-3, 20.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Denoyelle, M., Chefs-d Oeuvre de la Ceramique Grecque dans les collections du Louvre (Paris, 1994): 82-83, NO.36 (COLOUR OF A, PART OF B) Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): II, PL.106 (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 90 (2021) 646, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.106, GERYONEUS 14 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.56, EURYTION II 3 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.87, HERAKLES 2486 (A) Morris, K. (ed.), The Louvre and the Ancient World, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern Antiquities from the Musee Du Louvre (Atlanta, 2007): 30, NO.1 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 69, FIG.33 (DRAWING OF A) Padgett, J.M. (ed.), The Centaur's Smile, The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (Princeton, 2003): 86, FIG.12 (COLOUR 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): 22, 49, FIGS.3, 13 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Group E. Exekias, potter. Third quarter sixth. Ca.
540.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Geryon. B: Warrior Leaving Home, in a chariot. Lid: sirens
and stags{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: along the left margin, facing it: Εχσεκιας εποιεσε. To right of Heracles'
forehead: hερακλες. To left of Eurytion's head: Ευρυτιον, retr. Between Geryon's
legs: Γερυονε[ς]{2}. Along the right margin, facing it: Στεσιας καλος, retr. B:
To right of the warrior's forehead,: Ανχιπ[π]ος. Below the horses' bellies:
Καλ[λ]ιφορα[ς]. To left of the mane of the third horse: Σεμος, retr. To right of
the forehead of the fourth horse: Πυρ[ρ]οκομε{3}. Below the bent-down forehead
of the second horse: Καλ[λ]ιϙομε. On the lid: to left and right of one siren:
two groups of nonsense letters.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the lid belongs (see Para.). {2} for the omitted sigma, see Threatte
(1980), 640. {3} partly restored?
CAVI Comments: Two stallions and two mares. On the name Kalliphoras (not Kalliphora) see
AttScr. For the horse name Semos see Berlin 1811-1826.
CAVI Number: 6291
AVI Bibliography: E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 3, France 4 (1925), III H e, pl. 19,1-3. — Beazley
(1931–2), 6/31. — anon. (1937), ii, 286-87. — Dev.[1] (1951), 63-64 and 112. —
Boardman (1952), 35-37, fig. 23,b. — ABV (1956), 136/49, 686. — Para. (1971),
55. — Add.[2] (1989), 36. — AttScr (1990), no. 128.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
