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)
