Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND THE LION, IOLAOS WITH SWORD, ATHENA, ALL NAMED, ONLOOKERS B: WARRIOR, HORSES, BETWEEN ONLOOKERS (ACHILLES AND TROILOS ?), NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum: RALS801
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: AMSTERDAM, ALLARD PIERSON MUSEUM 2, 65-67, FIGS.31-32, PL.(411) 102.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates
CAVI Collection: Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum RALS 801a-b (loan).
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF band cup. Circle of Amasis Painter (Heesen). Ca. 550 (Heesen).
CAVI Subject: A: handle zone: in the center, Heracles and the Lion; at his left, Iolaus
holding out a sword; at his right, Athena to left; at the far left, two youths
looking on; at the far right, a youth looking on (an eighth figure on the right
is probably missing). B: handle zone: a fragmentary: warrior approaching two
horses, one black, the other white; on each side three onlookers{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: handle zone: between the two onlookers at left, vertically down, nonsense:
υσλογ(α)σ;(2) behind Iolaus' upper body, vertically down and facing: [Ι]ολεος,
retr. To left of Heracles' back, diagonally downward: hερακ{ε}λες, retr. (this
inscription is in larger letters than the others); between the lion and Athena,
in a curve that follows the lion's tail, a faint nonsense inscription of 10 very
small letters. Behind Athena's back, downward and somewhat curved, partly
facing: Αθεναια{3}. This inscription is also somewhat larger than the nonsense
inscription, but is smaller than Heracles'. To right of the right-hand youth,
downward, is another nonsense inscription of five preserved letters (unless at
the top there is another letter to begin the inscription, with a break
following, but the facs. does not indicate this). There are further traces at
the right edge, I do not know whether of an inscription. B: each onlooker is
given a downward nonsense inscription, usually not straight; the warrior has a
horizontal inscription, of which the first four letters are preserved. The
horses, which face right, seem not to be `inscribed'.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} P. H. thinks perhaps Achilles stalking Troilus. {2} the facs. however,
has: λσλοσ(δ)σ. The delta may be a miswritten omicron rather than alpha. {3} The
first letter is retr. and not facing; it takes with it the next two letters
(ΑΘΕ), but the next four letters face Athena and are not retr. The nu is
somewhat misshapen.
CAVI Comments: On loan from Amsterdam, R.A. Lunsingh Scheurleer collection. Not previously
published. - An important vase for the mixture of sense and nonsense. Heesen 86
compares a vase in Winchester, ABV 303; the incriptions show that our vase is
not by the Amasis Painter. - The nonsense inscriptions seem to use somewhat
different letter forms, e.g lambda 1 (in the chart in AttScr) vs. lambda 2.
CAVI Number: 151d
AVI Bibliography: P. Heesen, CVA Amsterdam 2, Netherlands 8 (1996), pl. 102,1-2 (both show
inscriptions), figs. 31 (profile) and 32 (small facs. of inscriptions on A) (no
bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
