Decoration: Obverse: FUNERARY, VALEDICTION, DRAPED MEN
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 2385
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: 845
CAVI Collection: ATHENS, N.M. 2410, 2412, 2413.
CAVI Lemma: FR. OF BF PINAX. FROM ATHENS, CERAMICUS (BOARDMAN). UNATTRIBUTED{1}; "αρειου"
SET. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. 540-530 (BOARDMAN).
CAVI Subject: 2410 AND 2413: PROCESSION OF MEN TO LEFT [OF THE PROTHESIS]. 2410: FOUR PAIRS
OF TWO MEN EACH (TWO NOT BEARDED) WITH RAISED HANDS IN PROCESSION TO RIGHT. 2410
HAS AT THE BOTTOM A MAEANDER BAND AND AT THE TOP A FRAMED INSCRIPTION (BOARDMAN,
P. 52). 2412: IS ANOTHER PROCESSION, AT THE RIGHT.
CAVI Inscriptions: MY READINGS FROM CC.: IN A ZONE MARKED-OFF AT THE TOP, DIP. AND GR: DIP.:
[---](.)ος :* σεμα τοδ' εστι :* αρειο{2}. GR.: [---].νος εστσ̣γ̣ισν̣τ̣, ETC{3}.
BOARDMAN'S READINGS, P. 60: FIRST INCISED: ...]νοςςεστοδεστιναρειο; THEN
CORRECTLY INSCRIBED: ...]ν̣ος :* σεματοδεστι :* αρειο. THE FIRST LETTER SHOWN BY
THE GR. TO HAVE BEEN A NU; HENCE: [--]νος σεμα τοδ' εστι Αρειο, PROBABLY
CONTINUING ON THE FF. PLAQUES, AS IT IS HEXAMETRIC. THE PLAQUES WERE BESPOKEN.
[B. DOES NOT CONSIDER THAT αρειο MAY BE AN ADJ. CF. SHAPIRO. CF. ALSO MOMMSEN
WHO THINKS EVEN THEN A PROPER NAME FOLLOWED, BUT I DO NOT SEE THAT: IT COULKD BE
SOMETHING LIKE ανδρος, LEAVING THE TOMB THAT OF AN ANONYMOUS WARRIOR.]
CAVI Footnotes: {1} RELATED TO GROUP E, BEAZLEY (1939A: 305), ACCORDING TO BOARDMAN. NOT SO
STATED IN ABV 687. BOARDMAN: EXEKIAN IN STYLE, NOT IN QUALITY, VERY CLOSE TO
MUNICH 1381 [ABV 142/5 TOWRY WHYTE PAINTER, NEAR GROUP E]. {2} THE PHOTO SHOWS A
HORIZONTAL STROKE FOR THE FIRST LETTER. SEE ALSO THREATTE (1980), P. 426:
ORIGINAL εστιν Αρειο REPLACED BY εστι :* Αρειο. [I PREFER αρειο.] {3} DONE FROM
A GOOD PHOTO IN CC; NOT CLEAR WHETHER THE GR. IS UNDER OR OVER THE DIP.; THE
LETTERS SEEM TO CORRESPOND ONE BY ONE TO THE DIP.
CAVI Comments: THE `AREIO' SET COMPRISES 2410, 2412, 2413; TECHNAU HAD ADDED 1246 AND 2417,
BUT BOARDMAN PUT THEM WITH THE EXEKIAN 2414 AND 2415 (SEE ABV). - THE FR. 2410,
THE ONLY ONE INSCRIBED, PRESERVES THE UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER. - UNCLEAR WHETHER
AREIO IS A NAME OR AN ADJECTIVE (`WAR-LIKE') (SHAPIRO). - H. MOMMSEN, 8 AND N.
32: THE INSCRIPTION (THIS IS THE FUNERAL MONUMENT (SEMA) OF AREIOS, OR OF THE
WAR-LIKE ...) SHOWS THAT THE PLAQUE WAS AFFIXED TO A MONUMENT. MOMMSEN CLEARLY
THINKS THE EPIGRAM IS INCOMPLETE AT THE END, BUT SINCE IT IS INCOMPLETE AT THE
BEGINNING A NOUN OR NAME AGREEING WITH AREIO (IF AN ADJ.) COULD HAVE PRECEDED.
FOR OTHER PLAQUES WITH PROPER NAMES SEE IBIDEM. IBIDEM, P. 24: THIS IS THE ONLY
SERIES DEVOTED TO THE FUNERAL OF A MAN.
CAVI Number: 0847
AVI Bibliography: WOLTERS (1888), 183/1-3, PL. 11. — KRETSCHMER (1894), 92, N. 5. —
COLLIGNON–COUVE (1902–4), NOS. 845-47, PL. 35. — ZSCHIETZSCHMANN (1928), NOS.
41-43. — BOARDMAN (1955), 60/11 AND FIG. (SECTION), PL. 40,C,D (2412 AND 2413
ONLY). — ABV (1956), 687 (MENTION ONLY). — SHAPIRO (1991), 638 AND N. 49 (NOT
ILL.). — H. MOMMSEN (1997A), 8 AND N. 32 (BIBL.), 22.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
