Decoration: Body: CHARIOT RACE OF PELOPS AND OINOMAOS, CHARIOTS, ONE TURNING, ONE DRAWN BY WINGED HORSES, NONSENSE INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität: J22
Previous Collections:
Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität: HU553C
Göttingen, Georg-August-Universität: K416
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 508.1 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 127 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: GOTTINGEN, ARCHAOLOGISCHES INSTITUT DER UNIVERSITAT 3, 144-145, FIG.23, BEILAGE 17.2, PLS.(4381,4382) 82.4-6, 83.1 View Whole CVA Plates Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.10.1-4 (BD) Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 74.2 (2005) 222, FIG.11 (BD) Nikephoros: 4 (1991) 320, FIG.2 (PARTS) Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 81, FIGS.52-54
CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. From Greece. Recalls Sappho Painter. Late sixth or early
fifth.
CAVI Subject: Race of Pelops and Oenomaus.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: under Pelos' winged horses, horizontal: (.)(ε)εh, retr. The
inscription runs into the horses' rear legs. It is very peculiar: the first
letter is very large and looks like an Ionic gamma; it touches the top of the
next letter so that it is not quite clear that that letter is an archaic
epsilon. The next letter is a rectangular epsilon with very short hastae; it is
much smaller; the last letter is a normal heta, still smaller.
CAVI Comments: The reading, from the photo, is incomplete.
CAVI Number: 3840
AVI Bibliography: Jacobsthal (1912), 14/21, pl. 6. — ABV (1956), 508/1. — Shapiro (1994), 80,
figs. 52-54 (fig. 54 shows the inscription well.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
