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)
