Decoration: A: CHARIOT, CHARIOTEER NAMED, ALKMAION, ATHENA, DOG B: DIONYSOS WITH VINE AND KANTHAROS BETWEEN SATYRS DANCING
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: 1517
Previous Collections:
Munich, Antikensammlungen: J1193
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 401.6 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNICH, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN 14, 32, 33, 34, FIG.1, BEILAGE 8.2, PLS.(3966,3967,3969) 26.5, 27.2-4, 29.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Knauss, F.S. (ed.), Die unsterblichen Götter Griechenlands, Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek München (Munich, 2012): 447, FIG.30.29 (COLOUR OF A) Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F.S. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer, Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 182, FIG.20.4, 479, NO.73 (A, B, COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From South Italy. Unattributed{1}. First quarter fifth.
490-480 (Ohly-Dumm).
CAVI Subject: A: chariot to right; behind, Athena to left. B: Dionysus and satyrs.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: near Athena's head: [Α]λκμεον{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} listed among very late standard neck-amphorae ii, various; the dates of
these are said to be between 480-450. {2} the reading is a combination of
Beazley's and M. Ohly-Dumm's readings; the vase was formerly repainted and
damaged in a fire in the second World War; I thank E. Kunze-Götte for sending me
her reading which agrees with Ohly-Dumm's.
CAVI Comments: This is the name of the charioteer; the vase is probably in memory of a
chariot victory. Beazley suggested a memorial for the Olympic victory of Alcmeon
I in 592 B.C.; I suggest possible contemporary identifications in Prakt. and a
victory other than an Olympic one, perhaps even in the Panathenaea. For another
vase with Alcmeon see now C. Bron in AK 1997.
CAVI Number: 5175
AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1953–4), 205. — ABV (1956), 401/6. — Immerwahr (1987), 284, pl. 25,
fig. 2.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
