CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF cup. From Arezzo. Makron. First quarter fifth. Ca. 490-480
(Richter). Hauptwerk II (Kunisch).
CAVI Subject: Int.: a dinner party(1): lower parts of two males reclining; a table with
food; under it, a youth on the floor.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: above the youth: Αμυχος{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so R-H; Beazley says `unexplained subject'. {2} R-H says the name is
unknown and is hardly for Αμυκος [which is a mythological name; but is this
really an objection? Chi for kappa is common and Makron is a poor speller].
Bothmer takes Αμυχος for Αμυκος: it refers to the incapacitated youth lying
beneath the banquet couch; he is not drunk but captive. Hence the scene is
probably mythological. The two banqueters are unusual: one holds a phiale, the
other is half turned to left: perhaps they are the Dioscuri feasting after the
defeat of Amykos. Beazley, by letter, is said by him to agree. The youth is
lying on his back on the floor below the couch and under the table in front of
it. The inscription begins to right of his face and to right of a table leg; it
curves to follow the body. The chi is clear in the ph., Kunisch, pl. 111. - In
note 510 Kunisch agrees with Bothmer who must be right. However, Amychos is
accepted in LGPN ii as a contemporary name.
CAVI Number: 5568
AVI Bibliography: Richter–Hall (1936), i, 79/58, pl. 49. — ARV[2] (1963), 477/295. — Bothmer
(1982), 41 and n. 16 (not ill.). — Kunisch (1997), 100 n. 402, *114 n. 510,
196/332, pl. 111 (shows inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
