Decoration: A: HERMES B: YOUTH WITH BREAD (?) AND LEG OF MEAT RUNNING
Last Recorded Collection: Kassel, Staatliche Museen Kassel, Antikensammlung: T820
Previous Collections:
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Publication Record: Koch-Harnack, G., Knabenliebe und Tiergeschenke (Berlin, 1893): 233, FIG.115A-B (A, B) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 56 (19.2.1980), PL.38, NO.92 (A, B) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (A, B) Yfantides, K., Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Kassel, Antike Gefässe, eine Auswahl (Kassel, 1990): NO.144
CAVI Lemma: RF neck amphora. Related to Pezzino Group(1). Last quarter
sixth. Ca. 520 (Cahn). *Auktion 56 (M.M.; 1980), pl. 38/92.
CAVI Subject: A: Hermes with kerykeion, looking back. B: naked youth
running, while supporting a large object on his left arm
and holding an animal leg in his right; he too looks back.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to Hermes' right: nonsense: [b] ο-πε...ο[/b].(2) To his left:
/[b] ...ε-ε..[/b]/[b] ...[/b](2) B: nonsense: to left of the youth's face,
along the right arm: [b] χλεκοπ[/b], retr. Between the arm and
animal leg and his body: [b] ικλ-εχο[/b], retr.(3) Between the
youth's legs: [b] επι...[/b]/[b] ε[/b]/[b] ο[/b].(3) Under the foot, Gr.: ligature
RA, with D-shwped rho.
CAVI Footnotes: (1)and to the earliest Kleophrades Painter (Guy). (2)so the
text in Auktion; no certain traces in the photo. (3)done from
the text; the photo. is unclear.
CAVI Comments: Is the youth on B an acolyte preparing for a sacrifice to
Hermes? - I do not know the meaning of the slashes (- and
/).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
