Decoration: A: ILIOUPERSIS, DEATH OF PRIAM, AT ALTAR, NEOPTOLEMOS WITH ASTYANAX, WOMAN B: HERAKLES, ATHENA, HERMES, INTO OLYMPOS (?) Frieze below: ANIMAL FRIEZE, PANTHERS AND DEER Shoulder A and B: THE CALYDONIAN BOAR, HUNTSMEN, ONE FALLEN, DOGS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, market
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 297.19 Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.25B (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. FROM CAPUA. PAINTER OF BERLIN 1686. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: A: CALYDONIAN BOAR HUNT. B: SIMILAR. BODY: A: DEATH OF PRIAM. B:
HERACLES ON THE WAY TO OLYMPUS: HERMES, ATHENA, HERACLES. BELOW: ANIMALS.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE BRACKETED LETTERS ARE PRINTED AS UPSIDE DOWN.
CAVI Comments: BEAZLEY COMPARES AN AMPHORA IN OXFORD (1965.141, EX NORTHWICK PARK,
SPENSER-CHURCHILL), IN THE MANNER OF THE PRINCETON PAINTER. FOR THIS TYPE OF
INSCRIPTION SEE BEAZLEY (1929A), 361-62, AND BERLIN 1697.
CAVI Number: 6768
AVI Bibliography: BEAZLEY (1929A), 362. — ABV (1956), 297/19.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
