Attributed To:Compare ACHELOOS P by BEAZLEY LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: FIGHT, HERAKLES AND WARRIOR, FALLING (KYKNOS ?) BETWEEN ATHENA AND HERMES, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: ATHLETES, MEN, ONE DRAPED, PLAYING PIPES, ONE WITH DISKOS, AND YOUTH, ACONTISTS
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: M495
Previous Collections:
Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 50450
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 371.140 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 162 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.708, KYKNOS I 125 (A) Zardini, F., The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos, A Study in Greek Vase-Painting and Literature (Verona, 2009): 568, FIG.136 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: HERACLES IN BATTLE(1), WITH A FALLING WARRIOR, BETWEEN ATHENA AND HERMES.
B: ATHLETES WITH A FLAUTIST.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: ON ATHENA'S RIGHT: (Α)θεναα, RETR. TO RIGHT OF HERACLES' FACE: Hερακλες.
NONSENSE(?): TO ATHENA'S LOWER RIGHT: (κ)[.](.). BETWEEN HERACLES' LEGS: ιος.
(THE LAST TWO INSCRIPTIONS PROBABLY GO TOGETHER). BY THE FALLING WARRIOR:
Nικο[.?] (COMPLETE?). NEAR HERMES: H[ερ]μες.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SEE PARA. ABV HAS: HERACLES STRIKING DOWN A WARRIOR (KYKNOS?).
CAVI Comments: = M. 1195. B IS NEAR THE ACHELOOS PAINTER, A NOT SO NEAR (BEAZLEY). ONE OF
THE INSCRIPTIONS SHOULD BE THE NAME OF HERACLES' OPPONENT; IS KYKNOS POSSIBLE?
ATTIC ALPHABET. THE LETTERS ARE SMEARED.
CAVI Number: 7189
AVI Bibliography: MINGAZZINI (1930), PLS. 74,6, 75,4 AND 76,4. — ABV (1956), 371/140. — PARA.
(1971), 162.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
