Attributed To: LYKAON P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: NIKE (NAMED) WITH OINOCHOE AND KERYKEION, WARRIOR WITH SPEAR AND SHIELD (NAMED, LYKAON) DEPARTING, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF (NAMED, ANTA..ROS) B: WOMEN, ONE WITH HELMET, ONE WITH SWORD, DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E379
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Vulci. Lykaon Painter (Polygnotan). Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Warrior leaving Home: Nike pouring; a bearded warrior with a phiale; at
right, a bearded man. B: king between two women with armor.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: beside Nike: Nικε{1}. The warrior: Λυκαον{2}. Above the righthand warrior:
Αντανδρος. At left, above Nike: Ε(υ)αιον καλος{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Smith prints an F-shaped epsilon. {2} taken from Matheson. {3} Smith
prints the upsilon as an Attic lambda. See Beazley's note in ARV[2] 1579; he
says that the upsilon is written as an Attic lambda [in all 9 examples?] and
Elaion, read by Orsi in Syracuse 21,146, is a possible name [which however is
not found in PA, Pape or LGPN ii].
CAVI Comments: "Now cleaned," Beazley, ARV[2]. This is the name piece of the Lykaon Pinter.
Matheson says on p. 272 that Lykaon is a hero of the Trojan War. LGPN ii does
not list Lykaon as a historical name. Antandros is not found as a mythical name
in Pape; the vase is listed as a probable historical name in LGPN ii. Mixed
alphabet.
CAVI Number: 4578
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 245-46. — ARV[2] (1963), 1045/3. — LIMC vi
(1992), pl. 152, Lykaon I/1. — Matheson (1995), 87, 431/L3, pl. 66 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
