Attributed To:Manner of PRINCETON P by BEAZLEY PRINCETON GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: WARRIORS, ONE LEADING WOMAN (RECOVERY OF HELEN ?), BETWEEN DRAPED MEN, SHIELD DEVICE, TRIPOD, DOG B: HERAKLES AND THE LION, WARRIOR, DRAPED MAN WITH SPEAR, ATHENA
Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 1965.141
Previous Collections:
Northwick, private, Spencer-Churchill
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 299.1 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 130 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 78 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: OXFORD, ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 3, 18-19, PLS.(646,647) 31.2, 32.3-4 View Whole CVA Plates Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 73.3 (2004) 439, FIG.8 (B, MISLABELLED) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.351, HELENE 327 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Manner of Princeton Painter{1}. Third quarter sixth. Ca. 550
(Boardman).
CAVI Subject: A: a warrior leading a woman (Menelaus and Helen?); at left, a bearded man
and a warrior; at right, a dog and a bearded man. B: Heracles and the Lion,
between Athena and Iolaus; at the far right, a man.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: to right of one old man's legs: ειονϝιϝοι. Between the warrior's
legs: ει(ο)ειοι. To their right: ε[.]ο̣χϝιο(λ). To right of the woman's face:
ειοχχι̣ι̣σ. To right of her middle: ειοχε. To left of another old man's legs:
ειοχειο(λ). To their right: ειο(.)ειοχ(σ)οχυ{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so ABV; in Para. Beazley says: "Compare Munich 1379 by the Painter of
Munich 1379 [ABV 303/1]." {2} Beazley in AJA reads, in the same order:
ΕΙΟWRΙ(ϝ)Ο·, the digamma upside down. ΕΙΟΕΙΟΙ. Ε·ΟΧ(ϝ)ΙΟΧ. ΕΙΟΤΧ··Σ, with
three-stroke sigma. ΕΙΟΧΕ. ΕΙΟΧΕΙΟ(Λ), the last letter, the `Argive' lambda.
EIOXEIOXKOXI. All chi's are upright crosses. Some of these readings may be
better than mine, which are from a photo.
CAVI Comments: Ex Northwick Park, Spenser-Churchill. The digamma's may be incomplete
epsilon's, the `Argive lambda' is probably a truncated chi. For the type of
inscriptions see Munich 1379. Beazley found the same inscriptions matched on
five other vases which he attributed to the Painter of Berlin 1686 (ABV 296f.,
nos. 3, 6, 17-19). A similar type appears on three other vases by the same hand
(nos. 3 ter, 4 (the name piece) and 7). The Oxford vase was attributed by him to
the manner of the Princeton Painter and in Para. he compared it with Munich 1379
which he considered very close. Boardman thinks the Oxford and Munich vases
should also be by the Painter of Berlin 1686, in an early phase; the
inscriptions by the Painter of Munich 1379 (two other vases in Munich) are not
very different.
CAVI Number: 5998
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Beazley (1929a), 360 f., fig. 1. — Dugas (1936), 163/18. —
Ghali-Kahil (1955), 107(e). — ABV (1956), 299/1. — Dugas (1960), 29/18. —
Hamilton (1965), no. 53, pl. 7. — Para. (1971), 130. — Brommer (1973), 133/5 and
410/24. — J. Boardman, CVA Oxford 3, Great Britain 14 (1975), pls. 31,2 and
32,3,4. — Add.[2] (1989), 78.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
