Decoration: A,B: CENTAUROMACHY, HERAKLES WITH CLUB AND BOW, ATHENA, CENTAURS (ONE NAMED, PHOLOS), KANTHAROS ON PITHOS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F266
Previous Collections:
Paris, Musée du Louvre: 2668
Publication Record: Archeologia Classica: 45 (1993) 1, 72, FIG.6 (A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 5, III.He.36, PL.(355) 57.12-13.15-16 View Whole CVA Plates Gaultier, F. et al. (eds.), Gli Etruschi e il Mediterraneo. La citta di Cerveteri (Rome, 2014): 197, NO.228 (COLOUR OF A) Hommes, Dieux et Heros de la Grece, Rouen, 23.10.1982-31.1.1983): 236-37, FIG.97A-B Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.443, KENTAUROI ET KENTAURIDES 244 (A, B, AH) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (A, B, PART OF A) Pottier, E., Vases antiques du Louvre (Paris, 1897-1922): PL.81 (A) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.54D
CAVI Lemma: BF AMPHORA. FROM LA TOLFA NEAR CIVITà VECCHIA. UNATTRIBUTED{1}. LAST QUARTER
SIXTH. CA. 510 (ROUEN CAT.).
CAVI Subject: HERACLES AND THE CENTAURS: A: HERACLES AND PHOLOS; ANOTHER CENTAUR HAS FALLEN
BETWEEN THEM; AT RIGHT, THE PITHOS WITH A KANTHAROS ON ITS RIM. B: TWO CENTAURS
COMING TO THE RESCUE, A THIRD FLEEING.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: UNDER HERACLES' LEFT ARM: (Φ)ολος{2}. BEHIND HERACLES, ABOVE THE PITHOS:
κενταορο(ς), THE LAST THREE LETTERS RETR., FOR κενταυρος{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} BUT SEE HASPELS 61 FOR COMPARISONS. {2} CVA PRINTS THE PHI = KOPPA, BUT
THE PHOTO IN THE ROUEN CAT. SHOWS A CIRCLE WITH A VERTICAL AT THE LEFT SIDE. {3}
THE FINAL SIGMA LIES SIDEWAYS.
CAVI Comments: EXTREMELY CASUAL LETTERING.
CAVI Number: 6354
AVI Bibliography: BADB 7587 (MUSEUM NUMBER WRONGLY GIVEN AS F 226). — PHOTO. — POTTIER
(1897–1922), ...., 122, PL. 81. — BAUR (1912), 155/51. — E. POTTIER, CVA LOUVRE
5, FRANCE 8 (1928), III H E, PL. 57,12-13,15-16. — HASPELS (1936), 61. — ROUEN
MUSéE DéP. (1982), 236/97 (NUMBER WRONGLY GIVEN AS F 226).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)