Decoration: Obverse: ATHENA IN CHARIOT, HERAKLES, COLUMNS (BUILDING ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.2569
Publication Record: Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 1 (Berlin, 1925): PL.106.2569 Karoglou, K., Attic Pinakes, Votive images in clay. British Archaeological Reports International Series 2104 (Oxford, 2010): 158, FIG.49
CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF BF PLAQUE. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED{1}. EARLY FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: CHARIOT BEFORE A STOA; ATHENA WITH THE REINS; HERACLES.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: TO LEFT OF THE LEFT COLUMN, CLOSE TO THE CAPITAL, TWO LINES, WIDELY
SPACED: [---]δ̣μο AND [---]δυω{2}. BETWEEN THE LEFT COLUMN AND A LEG OF
HERACLES: λολοσ^λος, RETR.{3}. UNDER THE HORSES BELLIES, BETWEEN THE RIGHT
COLUMN AND THE HORSES' LEGS: χαιρε{γ}, RETR.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} BOARDMAN: "AN ACROPOLIS VOTIVE PLAQUE OF WHICH LITTLE IS LEFT FOR
COMPARISON OF THE DRAWING, WHICH IS STILL QUITE COMPATIBLE [WITH THE SAPPHO
PAINTER], OFFERS WITH OTHER INSCRIPTIONS λολοσλοσ." I.E., B. RELATES THE FR. TO
THE SAPPHO PAINTER ON THE BASIS OF ONE OF THE NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS. {2}
GRAEF–LANGLOTZ READS δυπ, BUT THE LAST LETTER IS AN OMEGA (WITH VERY SHORT
HASTAE). {3} CONSIDERED BY PEEK A SHOUT TO THE HORSES; SEE ACR. 2124.
CAVI Comments: FRS. A - B. ALL INSCRIPTIONS PROBABLY NONSENSE, EXCEPT FOR THE WORD χαιρε.
CAVI Number: 1192
AVI Bibliography: GRAEF–LANGLOTZ (1925–33), I, NO. 2569, PL. 106. — BOARDMAN (1955), 62/UNDER
28 (MENTION).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
