Attributed To:Recalls ANTIMENES P by BEAZLEY MUNICH 1416, P OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: SACRIFICE, DRAPED YOUTH WITH KITHARA AND MEN, SOME DRAPED, ONE PLAYING KITHARA, ONE LEADING BULL, ONE WITH BRANCH (PROCESSION)
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.816
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 391 Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 690, FIG.22 Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 1 (Berlin, 1925): PL.49.816 Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.6 Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 134, FIG.59
CAVI Lemma: FRAGMENTARY BF AMPHORA. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. LAST THIRD SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: PROCESSION TO SACRIFICE: LEFT TO RIGHT: BOY HOLDING A ROPE TIED TO A BULL'S
FOOT; MAN AND BOY PLAYING LYRES; BEARDED FLAUTIST; MALE CARRYING A LARGE
AMPHORA; BULL; BEHIND THE BULL, A WREATHED YOUTH WITH A BASKET; IN FRONT OF THE
BULL, A WREATHED BOY, PROBABLY WITH AN APRON, HOLDS A BRANCH AND A ROPE OF THE
BULL.
CAVI Inscriptions: BEHIND THE LEFTMOST BOY: [---]ες. BEHIND THE BOY WITH THE LYRE: [--]α̣ι̣ο[ς].
BETWEEEN THE FLAUTIST AND THE BOY PLAYING THE LYRE: Εχσεκ[ε]στος{2}. ABOVE THE
FLAUTIST: Nικα[υλος?]{1}. ABOVE THE HEAD OF THE YOUTH BEHIND THE BULL: [---]ος.
BELOW THE BULL'S NECK (REFERRING TO THE RIGHTMOST BOY, THOUGH NOT FACING HIM):
[---]εβιος{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} MY SUGGESTION. GRAEF SUGGESTS: [η δεινα ε]νικα [φυλη] OR Nικα[---καλ]ος,
NO DOUBT TAKING THE -ος FROM THE NEXT INSCRIPTION WHICH WON'T DO AS THE FIGURES
WERE NAMED SEPARATELY. {2} THE ROPE INTERFERES. {3} BECHTEL SUGGESTS Αρχεβιος,
Αλκεβιος, OR Αγχεβιος.
CAVI Comments: EXEKESTOS IS AN UNUSUAL NAME WHICH MAY BE RELATED TO THE NAME EXEKIAS, ON
WHICH SEE BOARDMAN (1978), 24 (SHAPIRO).
CAVI Number: 0993
AVI Bibliography: GRAEF–LANGLOTZ (1925–33), I, NO. 816, PL. 49 (DR.). — SHAPIRO (1992), 55.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
