CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Campania? Undetermined Later Mannerist. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Body: a nude Heracles with a sickle grasps one of two snakes on an altar, on
which are the head and shoulders of a child warding off the snakes; Athena and a
woman, both retreating.
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: inscriptions in white: above Heracles' head: κ̣αλος. To left of
Athena's face: καλο[ς]{1}. Above the woman's head: καλο[ς]{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} it is unclear from CVA, whether the reading is καλο[ς] or καλο[ς].
CAVI Comments: Beazley: unexplained subject. Schmidt: Erichthonius and a daughter of
Cecrops? Schefold: Erichthonius on the altar, between Heracles and Athena;
Aglaurus. Curious is the masculine for the females.
CAVI Number: 6667
AVI Bibliography: N. Plaoutine, CVA Louvre 9, France 14 (1938), III I d, pls. 52,4,6 and 53,2.
— ARV[2] (1963), 1121/18. — M. Schmidt (1968), pl. 75,2. — Schefold (1981), 52,
fig. 62. — Add.[2] (1989), 331.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
