Decoration: A,B: THEBAN SPHINX ON COLUMN, DRAPED MEN AND YOUTHS, WITH STAFFS AND WALKING STICKS, ONE IN CHLAMYS AND PETASOS, WITH SPEARS (OEDIPUS ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 3728
Previous Collections:
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 336
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 485.24, 1655 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 300.17 Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): 1889, PL.8.10 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 121 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 248 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: WIEN, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 2, 19-20, PL.(74) 74.1-5 View Whole CVA Plates Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 451, FIG.379 (A, UH) Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 111, FIG.86 (A) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): II, 29 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.11, OIDIPOUS 49 (A) Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): VIII, PL.45 Morris, I. (ed.), Classical Greece, Ancient histories and modern archaeologies (Cambridge, 1994): 76, FIG.4.11 (A) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.517 Robert, C., Oidipus (Berlin, 1915): I, 54 Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 175, FIG.185 (A)
CAVI Collection: VIENNA, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 3728.
CAVI Lemma: RF PELIKE. FROM CERVETERI. HERMONAX. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: A-B: THE SPHINX AT THEBES: A: IN THE CENTER, THE SPHINX IS SEATED ON A HIGH
COLUMN; ON EITHER SIDE, A SEATED THEBAN; AT LEFT, A YOUTH; AT RIGHT, A BEARDED
TRAVELER, NO DOUBT OEDIPUS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: A STOICH. TWO-LINER: Hερμοναχς | εγραφσεν{1}. UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: Δ. NOT
IN JOHNSTON (1979).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} PRINTED AS OBLIQUE STOICH. IN MASNER. THE SIGNATURE IS BETWEEN THE HEAD
OF OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX. [THERE IS VERY LITTLE ROOM FOR IT.]
CAVI Comments: EX OEST. MUSEUM 336. ATTIC WITH FOUR-STROKE SIGMA. TAILED RHO.
CAVI Number: 7962
AVI Bibliography: KLEIN (1887), 201/5. — MASNER (1892), 51 (NOT ILL. BUT GOOD PRINT OF INSCR.
IN TEXT). — VA (1918), 124/18. — RICHTER (1958), 108. — F. EICHLER, CVA VIENNA
2, AUSTRIA 2 (1959), PL. 74,1-5; P. 19, FACS. OF GR. — ARV[2] (1963), 485/24,
1655. — ADD.[2] (1989), 248. — ATTSCR (1990), 102 [[ON HERMONAX]]. — ROBERTSON
(1992), 175, FIG. 185 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
