Decoration: Body: HERAKLES AND GERYON, HERMES IN PETASOS AND CHLAMYS WITH SWORD AND CLUB, WOMAN, ORTHROS, BOEOTIAN SHIELD, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS, DEVICES, STAR, DISCS, SNAKE
Last Recorded Collection: Delos, Archaeological Museum: B6.129
Previous Collections:
Delos, Archaeological Museum: 547
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 379.274 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 163, 168 Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): PL.20.1 (S) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.85, HERAKLES 2470 (PART) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 26, 75, FIG.39 (DRAWING OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. From Delos. Leagros Group{1}; Class of Delos 547. Last quarter
sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: Heracles and Geryon.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: at left, top: οεσι. At left, bottom: σι(ν)ο{2}. By Geryon: ονσευσ,
retr. Below Geryon: ευ(ϙ)ισ. To left of the woman at right: εγογοσ.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Beazley compares the Edinburgh Painter and the Group of Vatican 424. {2}
nu reversed.
CAVI Comments: The inscriptions look in part like imitation names. Koppa is miswritten. The
readings are not very certain.
