Decoration: A: DEATH OF ARGOS, FALLING, HERMES IN NEBRIS, HERA, ALL NAMED, BULL (IO) B: AMAZONOMACHY, HERAKLES, WITH SWORD, WARRIOR, AMAZONS, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, SOME FALLING, DEVICES, TRIPOD, DISCS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1848.6-19.4
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 148.2 Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.77 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 41 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.He.5, PL.(150) 30.1A-C View Whole CVA Plates Johns, C., Cattle, History, Myth, Art (London, 2011): 69 (COLOUR OF PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.434, HERA 485 (A) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): FIG.20 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Bomarzo near Viterbo. Group of Naples Psykter-amphora (near
Exekias). Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: Death of Argos: Hermes slaying Argos on his left; Hera with Io the cow. B:
Heracles and the Amazons.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above Argos' head: [Αργ]ος, retr. To right of Hermes' back, not facing
him: hερμες, retr. To right of Hera's head: hερας.
CAVI Number: 4246
AVI Bibliography: Photo (A). — CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7413. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great
Britain 4 (1927), III H e, pl. 30,1a-c. — ABV (1956), 148/2. — Add.[2] (1989),
41.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
