Attributed To: MENON by SIGNATURE PSIAX by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA BETWEEN LETO AND ARTEMIS (ALL NAMED) B: YOUTH IN CHLAMYS, THRACIAN BOOTS AND CAP (ALOPEKIS) WITH SPEARS LEADING HORSES (ALL NAMED ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Philadelphia (PA), University of Pennsylvania: 5399
Publication Record: Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 172 (JUNE 1999) 27 (COLOUR OF PART) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 292 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 7.3 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 9.4 Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): II, 203 Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 212, FIG.162 (DRAWING OF A) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 64, FIGS.22-23 (A, OF) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.318 (A) The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania: 11 (1920) PL. FACING 13 (B) The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania: 5 (1914) 32-36, FIGS.17-20 (A, B, DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
CAVI Collection: PHILADELPHIA, UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 5399.
CAVI Lemma: RF AMPHORA. FROM VULCI. PSIAX. MENON, POTTER. LAST QUARTER SIXTH. 520-510.
CAVI Subject: A: APOLLO WITH A LYRE BETWEEN LETO AND ARTEMIS. B: A YOUTH LEADING TWO
HORSES.
CAVI Inscriptions: ALL INSCRIPTIONS GRR.: A: TO LETO'S LOWER RIGHT: Λετος̣. SIMILAR:
Απολ[λ]ονος. SIMILAR: Αρτεμιδος. B: TO LEFT OF THE HORSES: Σκονθον{1}. TO THE
HORSES' LOWER RIGHT: Πι[..]ι̣ο(.). TO LEFT OF THE WARRIOR'S FACE: Πυρες{2}. ON
THE FOOT PROFILE, ALSO GR.: Μενον εποιεσεν{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Σκονθον IS MY READING; Σχονθον, BEAZLEY IN JHS, WRONGLY. NO DOUBT
MISWRITTEN FOR Χσανθος (A HORSE NAME, SEE IMMERWAHR (1971) [[SEE ESPECIALLY CAVI
8076]]). THE NAME OF THE OTHER HORSE IS NOT RECOVERABLE. {2} Πυρες: SEE ANTH.
PAL. 13.13 AND EARLY EXAMPLES CITED IN IMMERWAHR (1971); CF. LGPN II. PROBABLY
NOT Πυρ[ρ]ες, ALTHOUGH THAT OCCURS IN PA 12,497 (FOURTH CENT.). FOR EARLIER
READINGS, SEE ROBINSON IN AJA. {3} THE INCISION IS MORE DEEPLY CUT, WHICH IN
IMMERWAHR (1971) MADE ME THINK OF INCISION AFTER FIRING AND A DIFFERENT HAND;
BUT SEE NOW ATTSCR (1990), 58 N. 6 AND THREATTE (1996), 260.
CAVI Comments: THE SIGNATURE IS UNDER SIDE A, I THINK PRETTY WELL CENTERED.
CAVI Number: 6808
AVI Bibliography: BATES (1905). — FURTWäNGLER (1905), II, 259. — BATES (1908), 435 F. — D.M.
ROBINSON (1908), 431FF. — HALL (1914), 31-37, FIGS. 17-20. — BEAZLEY (1927), 67,
N. 23. — ARV[2] (1963), 7/3. — IMMERWAHR (1971), 55/1. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 313.
— COHEN (1991), 64, FIGS. 22-23. — THREATTE (1996), 107 AND 260.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
