Decoration: A: ATHENA BETWEEN WARRIORS, BETWEEN YOUTHS WITH SPEARS, SHIELD DEVICES, LION PROTOME AND SNAKE IN RELIEF B: ZEUS (?) SEATED ON STOOL WITH SCEPTRE, HERMES (?) WITH SPEAR, YOUTHS WITH SPEARS
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: LU19
Previous Collections:
Aachen, private, Dr. P. Ludwig
Publication Record: Aristonothos, Rivista di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico: 19 (2023) 108, PL.11B (B) Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 65 Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 83-84, NO.6 (A, B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 43 Ephemeris Archaiologike: 128 (1989) 110, FIG.5 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Amasis Painter. Third quarter sixth. Ca. 540. Middle (Lullies).
CAVI Subject: A: woman with spear (Athena?) between two warriors and two youths. B: bearded
man (Zeus?) seated between two warriors and two youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: Under the foot, Dip.: four dots, vertically(1); ligature ΗΡ [[lig.]]. Gr.:
the same ligature, but retr. plus four vertical strokes: ΡΗ ΙΙΙΙ [[ΡΗ lig.]]{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the four dots are given by Bothmer in Amasis; they are not mentioned by
Lullies or in Johnston (1979).
CAVI Comments: Ex Aachen, Ludwig. The dots and strokes may be numerals, hardly prices.
