Decoration: Body: FRONTAL CHARIOT, WITH DIOMEDES, BETWEEN WOMEN WITH WREATHS, AND DRAPED MEN Shoulder: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE FALLING, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICE, HEAD OF BOAR, BETWEEN WOMEN, BETWEEN SPHINXES
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 3613
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 106.1 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 29 Knittlmayer, B., Die Attische Demokratie und ihre Helden, Darstellungen des trojanischen Sagenkreises im 6. und frühen 5. Jh.v.Chr. (Heidelberg, 1997): PL.9.2 (PART OF BD)
CAVI Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3613.
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Cerveteri. Archippe Group (related to Tyrrhenian Group).
Third quarter sixth. 550-530.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: two warriors fighting between, on each side, a sphinx and a woman
holding a wreath. Body : Departure of a chariot (seen frontally), between, on
each side, a bearded man and a woman holding a wreath.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: to right of the left sphinx: τελοπυσϝος. Between the left warrior's
legs: χιλκες, retr. Between the right warrior's legs: λεοτις. To left of the
right woman's head: (κ)ο](χ)λει, retr.{1}. To left of the right sphinx:
σουετπολος{2}. Body: to the lower right of the man at left: Ανφιλοχος. To right
of the woman: Αρχιπ[π]ε. To her lower right, close to the horses' legs:
ρι(.)ι(.)(.){3}. Between the necks of the left pair of horses, the name of the
charioteer: Διομεδες, retr. To left of the right woman's legs, close to the
horses' legs (as above): Κ[α]λ[λ]ιπ[π]ος(?), retr.{4}. To left of the right
woman's face: Ευμελια, retr.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} read differently in Masner's text, dr., and facs. {2} the facs. shows a
diagonal stroke preceding the first sigma. {3} the last letter seems to be kappa
placed vertically; it should be the name of a horse (Masner). {4} perhaps an
unlikely name for a horse; it may possibly pertain to the man at the right.
Beazley in AJA points out that the reading is Κλιπος, which should be either for
Κ[α]λ[λ]ιπ[π]ος or more probably Κλ[ε]ιπ[π]ος.
CAVI Comments: Ex Oest. Mus. 220. A mixture of sense and nonsense: the nonsense inscriptions
on the shoulder mock or imitate names; there are sense inscriptions in the body
picture. Bothmer thinks the shoulder picture may be a duel of Achilles and
Memnon. "It is, in fact, not impossible to recognize an attempt at writing
Achilles in the letters that appear between the legs of the victorious warrior."
(Bothmer). [Referring to χιλκες, I assume.]
