Decoration: Body: ODYSSEUS (NAMED ?) WITH STAFF IN SKYROS (?)
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P18538
Publication Record: Andreae, B. et al., Ulisse, il mito e la memoria (Rome, 1996): 31, NO.1.7 (COLOUR) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 611.40, 1661 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 396 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 131 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 268 Journal of Hellenic Studies: 109 (1989) PL.3A Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.626, ODYSSEUS 29 Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 159, FIG.141BIS The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 30, 240, FIG.35, PL.73.689 (INCLUDING DRAWING)
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF oinochoe (chous). From Athens, Agora B 19. Manner of Niobid
Painter{1}. Second quarter fifth. Ca. 450-440 (Moore) [seems late to me].
CAVI Subject: Odysseus at Troy? (Moore): Odysseus bending forward, his left hand holding
the top of a cross-topped stick and the end of a crooked staff which rests on
his shoulder{2}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Above the figure, in (faded) white: [Οδυ]σσευ[ς].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} may be early, delicate work by the painter himself (ARV[2]). {2} ARV[2]
says Odysseus (on Skyros?); so also Corbett, while Brommer (1965) thinks of
Odysseus on his mission to Troy, since the picture shows self-inflicted wounds
on O.'s arm (he misunderstood the lines on the right arm as wounds). {3} the dr.
in Moore (1997) is very poor esp. for the letters, but the sketch, p. 240,
confirms the reading. The inscr. is horizontal.
CAVI Comments: Could also be [Ολυ]σσευ[ς].
CAVI Number: 0557
AVI Bibliography: Museum card. — Thompson–Corbett (1947), pl. 65,5, no. 450. — H.A. Thompson
(1948), 189-90 and n. 121, pl. 68,5. — ARV[2] (1963), 611/40, 1661. — Brommer
(1965), 115-19, fig. 11. — Para. (1971), 396. — Brommer (1983), pl. 2,b. —
Add.[2] (1989), 268. — Moore (1997), 240/689, fig. 35 (dr., shows letters), pl.
73 (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
