Attributed To: AMASIS P by FREL AMASIS by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, HERAKLES AND AMAZONS, WARRIORS IN NEBRIDES, SHIELD DEVICES, SNAKE IN RELIEF, LION HEAD IN RELIEF, PANTHER HEAD, ONLOOKERS B: ARCHER, WARRIOR IN NEBRIS, AMAZON, ONLOOKER, SHIELD DEVICE, LION PROTOME
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 79.AE.197
Publication Record: Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 204-205, NO.55 (I, A, B) Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica: SUPPL. II.1, 182, FIG.216 (A) Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: 2 (1985), 184, FIG.2 (A) Heesen, P., Athenian Little-Master Cups (Amsterdam, 2011): 137, FIG.84A, PL.64A-B (A, B, UH) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 346, FIG.238 (A) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 5
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF band cup. Amasis Painter. Third quarter sixth. 550-540.
CAVI Subject: A-B: Amazonomachy with Heracles.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under one handle, on the bowl between the handle roots: Αμασις. The other
handle, missing, may have had the rest of the signature in the same position.
CAVI Comments: The position of the signature occurs on other many-figured band cups: London
B 400 (Glaukytes), Munich 2243 (Glaukytes; Archikles), London, ex E 4
(`Thypheithides'); but they are written in two lines. For the dates of the
Amasis signatures, see Isler who dates them later than is generally thought.
