Attributed To: AMASIS P by FREL AMASIS by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, HERAKLES AND AMAZONS, WARRIORS IN NEBRIDES, DEVICES, SNAKE IN RELIEF, LION HEAD IN RELIEF, PANTHER HEAD, ONLOOKERS B: ARCHER, WARRIOR IN NEBRIS, AMAZON, ONLOOKER, 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.
