Decoration: Body: DRAPED FIGURE MOUNTING WINGED CHARIOT, SACRIFICE AT ALTAR WITH FIRE AND OFFERING, MEN (PELOPS AND OINOMAOS ?), ONE DRAPED HOLDING (MEAT ?), ONE WITH SPITS (SPLANCHNOPT), SHIELD, SPEARS, AND HELMET, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: CC968
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: 595
Publication Record: Aktseli, D., Altäre in der archaischen und klassischen Kunst, Untersuchungen zu Typologie und Ikonographie, Int. Archäologie 28 (Espelkamp, 1996): PL.1.2 (PART) Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 758, FIG.235 (BD) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 226.8, 96, 98, 123, PLS.33.1A-C, 35.2 Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.9.5-8 (BD) Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 74.2 (2005) 223, FIG.12 (BD) Lacroix, L., Etudes d'archeologie numismatique (Paris, 1974): PL.14 Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.21.1 (PART OF BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.220, PELOPS 12 (PARTS) Lissarrague, F. et al. (eds.), Ceramique et peinture Grecques, Modes d'emploi, Actes du colloque internat., Ecole du Louvre, April 1995 (Paris, 1999): 185, FIG.1E (PROFILE) Nikephoros: 4 (1991) 319, FIGS.1A-B (PARTS) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 6 Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: I, PL.31.GR562 (PART) van Straten, F.T., Hiera Kala, Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece (Leiden, 1995): FIG.153 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. From Locris. Sappho Painter. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Departure in chariot and sacrifice:{1}. charioteer mounting a winged-horse
chariot; a priest and a youth roast meat at an altar.
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of the charioteer's face: (κ)α̣λ̣ο(ς){2}. Under the horses:
imitation letters. In front of them: κ and traces (of καλος?). Above the
sacrificial scene, in the center: καλος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} repeatedly identified as Oinomaus sacrificing, and Pelops mounting his
chariot (Haspels). {2} kappa smeared; sigma sloppy and small.
CAVI Comments: Sloppy writing.
CAVI Number: 0725
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Sauer (1891), 36, fig. 23. — Collignon–Couve (1902–4), no. 968. —
Haspels (1936), 96, 98, 123, n. 2, 226[[/8]], pls. 33,1a-c and 35 (no. 8(?);
bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
