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)
