Decoration: Body: DRAPED MAN WITH SPEAR SEATED BETWEEN ONLOOKERS (WOMAN AND YOUTHS) Shoulder: ATHLETES BOXING, ATHLETE
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 76.AE.48
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 26 (1983), PLS.19.1-4, 20.1 Aristonothos, Rivista di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico: 19 (2023) 109, PL.12 (PART) Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 229, APP.1 Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: 37, FIG.3A-E J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: 5 (1977), 138, FIG.8A (PART) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: (S, BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. Taleides Painter. Amasis, potter (?). Third quarter sixth.
540-530 (Bothmer).
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: boxers. Body: a seated man greeted by a woman and five boys.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under the foot, circular, facing out, Dip.: Αμασις vac.1-2 μεποιεσεν.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Legakis' claim that one sigma is four-stroke is erroneous.
CAVI Comments: See the discussion of the signature in AttScr: its general character
resembles those on vases by the Amasis Painter, but the writing is coarser and
the glaze less brilliant; I express some doubts about the genuineness. J. Frel
says that the Amasis signature is in the handwriting of the Taleides Painter. H.
Mommsen: the lekythos resembles others by the Taleides Painter and NOT those
painted by the Amasis Painter; thewriting resembles the signatures on vases by
the Amasis Painter, but is larger and coarser and the glaze is less shiny. "Die
Amasis-Signatur ist daher äusserst unglaubwürdig, auch wenn sie sich als antik
erweisen sollte." Three-stroke sigma{1}.
CAVI Number: 4926
AVI Bibliography: BADB 7989. — Photos in Beazley Archive (non vidi). — Frel (1983), 37, fig.
3a-e. — Legakis (1983a), 73-76, pls. 19-20. — Bothmer (1985), 229, app. 1 (photo
of inscription). — Add.[2] (1989), 400. — AttScr (1990), no. 165. — Isler
(1994), 95 and nn. — H. Mommsen (1997), 17-18.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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