Attributed To: PROMETHEUS P by BOTHMER TYRRHENIAN GROUP by THIERSCH
Decoration: A1: FIGHT, HEKTOR AND ACHILLES OVER BODY OF TROILOS, AGENOR, AINEIAS (ALL NAMED), TOMB OR ALTAR, DEVICES, BIRD, BULL HEAD, TRIPOD, PROTOME OF PANTHER, BOEOTIAN SHIELD ANIMAL FRIEZES, SIRENS, SPHINXES, PANTHERS, DEER ANIMAL FRIEZES, SIRENS, SPHINXES, PANTHERS, DEER B1: HORSEMEN
Last Recorded Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 70993
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 95.6, 683 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 36 Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.33 (PART OF A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 25 Esposito, A.M. and Tommaso, G. (eds.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Vasi Attici (Firenze, 1993): 25, FIG.20 (COLOUR OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.21, AGENOR II2 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. From Pescia Romana. Prometheus Painter (Bothmer).
Second quarter sixth. 560-550. Middle period (Kluiver).
CAVI Subject: A: Achilles and Hector fighting over the body of Troilos. At extreme left,
Achilles facing right; tumulus (Kretschmer calls it a `halbkugelformigen Altar')
and traces I cannot read in the ph., no doubt including Troilos; at right, five
warriors advance to left. B: four horsemen racing.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Αχιλ[λ]ευς. Τροιλος, retr. hεκτορ, retr. Αινεας, retr. Αγενορ, retr.
Αλε[χ]σανδρος, retr.{1}. Χαλκας, retr.{2}. Ιφις{3}. The ph. shows also another
additional name. B: [...]{4}. hιπ[π]ιας. [Kr. prints the iota as :*.] {5}.
[Χαι]ρια̣ς{6}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Ruijgh apud K. reads: Αλεσ[σ]ανδρος, not Αλε[χ]σανδρος. {2} found also on
Copenhagen 15,070 (no. 21 in K.), where Ruijgh suggests Χαλκας for Καλχας with a
query [see also Pape s.v. Καλχας: Eustathius mentions the variant Χαλκας for the
seer]? This and the next name are not read by Kretschmer. {3} [A woman,]
mentioned in the Iliad 9.667. {4} so K.; not mentioned by Kretschmer; this
should be under the first horseman. So what about the fourth? {5} under the
second horseman, Kretschmer. {6} under the third horseman, Kretschmer who reads:
[Χ]α[ι]ριας.
CAVI Comments: Open heta.
CAVI Number: 3584
AVI Bibliography: Photo Alinari 170,715. — Kretschmer (1894), 182 n. 1 (vidit). — Bothmer
(1944), 168/D 2. — ABV (1956), 95/6, 683. — Para. (1971), 36. — Carpenter
(1984), 49, fig. 3 (detail of A, good for inscriptions). — Add.[2] (1989), 25. —
AttScr (1990), no. 167. — Esposito–De Tommaso (1993), 25/20 (A) (exc.). —
Kluiver (1995), 59/7 and 65/7 (inscriptions done by C.J. Ruijgh) (not ill.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
