Decoration: Body: HELIOS RISING IN FRONTAL CHARIOT, NYX AND EOS IN CHARIOTS, HERAKLES KNEELING AT ALTAR WITH SPITS (SACRIFICE, SPLANCHNOPT) ON ROCK, (ALL NAMED) DOG
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 41.162.29
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), Gallatin
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 121 (2017) 541, FIG.14 (PARTS OF BD) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 507.6, 702 Buitron-Oliver, D. (ed.), New Perspectives in Early Greek Art (Hanover and London, 1991): 50, FIG.18 (DRAWING) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 126 Classical Antiquity: 12 (1993) FIG.8 AT P.266 (PART) Cohen, B. (ed.), The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 206-207, NO.55 (COLOUR OF BD) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: CAMBRIDGE (MA), FOGG MUSEUM AND GALLATIN COLLECTIONS, 93-94, PL.(392) 44.1A-D View Whole CVA Plates Eidinow, E., and Kindt. J. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (Oxford, 2015): 52-53, FIGS.5.1-5.2 (PARTS OF BD) Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 758, FIG.234 (BD) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 226.6, PL.32.1A-D Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 96, 98-99, 113, 120.3, 226.6, PL.32.1 Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.5.2-5 (BD) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 119 (2004) 21, FIG.14 (BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PLS.80, GANYMEDES 59, 122, GIGANTES 144 (PARTS) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.638, HELIOS 105 Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 168-169, FIGS.128-129 (DRAWING AND COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Marconi, C., Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World, The Metopes of Selinus (Cambridge, 2007): 142, FIG.70 (BD) Mertens, J., How to read Greek vases (New York, 2010): 7, 100-103 (COLOUR OF BD AND PARTS) Morais, R., Centeno, R., and Freitas Ferreira, D. (eds.), Myths, Gods and Heroes. Greek Vases in Portugal – Mitos, Deuses e Heróis. Vasos Gregos em Portugal (Porto, 2022): II, 167, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF BD) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 4 Schertz, P. and Stribling, N. (eds.), The Horse in Ancient Greek Art, National Sporting Library & Museum Middleburg, Virginia (Middleburg and Richmond, 2017): 28, FIG.22 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst, Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 383, FIG.21.10 (BD) Spivey, N. and Rasmussen, T. (eds.) Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991): 109, FIG.44 (DRAWING) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: I, PL.31.561 (DRAWING) Vermeule, E., Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Berkeley, 1979): 135, FIG.6B (PART OF BD) Villanueva Puig, M-C. et al., Dossier, Des vases pour les Atheniens, VIe-IVe siecle avant notre ere. Metis 12 (2014): 187, FIG.6 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG LEKYTHOS. FROM ATTICA{1}. SAPPHO PAINTER. EARLY FIFTH. 500-490
(HASPELS).
CAVI Subject: HELIOS RISING BETWEEN NYX, AND EOS (WHO IS DEPARTING). HERACLES SACRIFICING
AT AN ALTAR.
CAVI Inscriptions: TO LEFT OF THE HEADS OF NYX' HORSES: Nυκς, RETR.{2}. ABOVE A PICTURE OF THE
SUN WHICH IS ABOVE HELIOS: Hελιος. TO RIGHT OF EOS' FACE: Hεος. BEHIND HERACLES'
BACK, NOT FACING: Hερακλε(ς){3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} OR ATHENS? {2} FOR κσ = χσ, SEE KRETSCHMER (1894), 179 AND THREATTE
(1980), 20; II, 677 (THIS VASE); SEE ALSO THREATTE (1996), 577 (ADDENDUM TO I,
20). {3} THE KAPPA IS MISWRITTEN, THE FINAL SIGMA NOT; IT IS A THREE-STROKE
SIGMA WRITTEN VERTICALLY.
CAVI Comments: EX GALLATIN. ONE OF FOUR LEKYTHOI FROM THE SAME TOMB, ALL INSCRIBED: SEE CVA,
PLS. 44,2, 45,1 AND 45,2. RICHTER SUGGESTS THAT HERACLES IS SACRIFICING TO
HELIOS TO ASK HIM FOR THE GOLDEN BOWL. ODD WRITING. TAILED RHO. THREE-STROKE
SIGMA AND OTHER SHAPES. ON THE SUBJECT OF HERACLES AND HELIOS SEE ALSO HASPELS
120FF. - FROM THE SAME TOMB: NY 41.162.30, Q.V.
