Decoration: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE FALLEN, HORSEMEN, INSCRIPTIONS (NONSENSE ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 79631
Publication Record: Hannestad, L., The Castellani Fragments in the Villa Giulia, Athenian black-figure, Volume 1 (Aarhus, 1989): 80, NO.102 Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 7237
CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF BF BAND CUP. UNATTRIBUTED. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. 550-540 (HANNESTAD).
CAVI Subject: A OR B: COMBAT: FR. A: UPPER PART OF A WARRIOR WITH SHIELD AND CORINTHIAN
HELMET. FR.B: AT LEFT, THE LOWER PART OF A WARRIOR LYING PRONE, COVERED BY HIS
SHIELD; AT RIGHT, LEG AND SHIELD OF A WARRIOR. FR. C: AT LEFT, A HORSE'S HOOF;
LOWER LEGS OF TWO FIGHTING OVER A WARRIOR LYING PRONE; A HORSE'S HOOFS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A OR B: FR. A: ON THE WARRIOR'S LEFT: ελε(.)[--]{1}. AT RIGHT, ABOVE THE
SHIELD AND A SPEAR: [--]σ, RETR.{2}. FR. B HAS NO INSCRIPTION. FR. C: IN THE
LEFT-MOST CORNER OF THE SHERD: πε(σ){3}. TO RIGHT OF THE RIGHT WARRIOR'S THIGH:
οι̣[--]{4}. BELOW THE LOWER HOOF OF THE RIGHT HORSE: ε[--].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} HANNESTAD READS ετε, WHICH WOULD BE RETR. {2} SIGMA THREE-STROKE
REVERSED; MY READING (DOUBTFUL). {3} SIDEWAYS SIGMA; HANNESTAD READS: σε(ν) WITH
REVERSED NU. {4} OF THE SECOND LETTER ONLY THE LOWER VERTICAL REMAINS.
CAVI Comments: THREE FRS. OF UNUSUALLY FINE QUALITY. IT IS UNCLEAR TO ME WHETHER THIS IS
SENSE OR NONSENSE, ESPECIALLY IF HANNESTAD'S READING σεν IS RIGHT.
CAVI Number: 7237
AVI Bibliography: HANNESTAD (1989), 13/102, 80, 102 (PH.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
