Decoration: A: AJAX AND ACHILLES PLAYING (?) B: WARRIORS DEPARTING, SHIELD DEVICES, SATYR MASK, CUP WITH INSCRIPTIONS I: OWL
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 2.75
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 80.1 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 53.12 Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 2 (Berlin, 1933): PL.5.75 (I, B) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 3 (B, COL OF B) Paleothodoros, D., Epictetos (Leuven, 2004): PL.52, FIG.2 (B, PART OF A) Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 243, FIG.6 (PART OF B) Weiss, C. and Simon, E. (eds.), Folia in memoriam Ruth Lindner (Dettelbach, 2010): 68, FIG.1 (I)
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF cup. From Athens. Unattributed{1}. Last quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: owl between olive branch and tendril. A: Ajax and Achilles playing
dice? B: warriors setting out (central warrior's shield device: satyr mask with
kylix).
CAVI Inscriptions: B: in thick red paint: [--- αν]εθ[εκ]εν. On the kylix: nonsense: υκχ(.)ρι,
retr.{2}. Above the kylix, on the shield: εχοτ(.)h, retr.{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} bears some resemblance to Epiktetos (Beazley). {2} the fourth letter is
the beginning of a horizontal stroke. {3} the fifth letter shows indistinct
traces.
CAVI Comments: A bespoken dedication?
CAVI Number: 1241
AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), ii, no. 75, pl. 5 (parts). — ARV[2] (1963), 80/1.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
