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)
