Decoration: A: FIGHT, WARRIOR, DRAPED MEN WITH SPEARS
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 03.852
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 51.2 Brijder, H.A.G., Siana Cups I and Komast Cups (Amsterdam, 1983): PL.10B Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 13 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 2, 29, PL.(943) 109.5 View Whole CVA Plates Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.3.14 Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.23A Tsingarida, A. and Viviers, D. (eds.), Pottery Markets in the Ancient Greek World (8th - 1st Centuries B.C.). Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Universite libre de Bruxelles19-21 June 2008 (Brussels, 2013): 55, FIG.7
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of Siana cup. From Boeotia. C Painter. Second quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Upper bodies of four warriors (the leftmost is fighting).
CAVI Inscriptions: Below the rim, interspersed between the figures, in large BG letters: [ὁ
δεινα τ]οπολ[λ]ονι ανεθεκε vac.
CAVI Comments: Attic alphabet? (The only diagnostic letters are lambda, which occurs also in
Boeotian, and alpha, which is not like the Boeotian). Cartwheel theta. A
bespoken piece. -Dedication by an unknown Athenian, perhaps at the Ptoon, as the
fr. comes from Boeotia (Shapiro).
CAVI Number: 2734
AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 51/2. — M. True et al., CVA Boston 2, USA 19 (1978), pl. 109,5. —
Add.[2] (1989), 13. — Shapiro (1989), 50, pl. 23,a. — AttScr (1990), no. 68,
fig. 14.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
