Decoration: A: HERAKLES LEADING SPHINX MONSTER ON CHAIN B: HUNTSMEN ATTACKING BULL MONSTER WITH SPEARS AND AXE Under handle: HERON
Last Recorded Collection: Monopoli, private
Publication Record: Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 468, FIG.38 (A) Borgers, O., The Theseus painter, style, shapes and iconography, Allard Pierson Series 16 (Amsterdam, 2004): PL.7A-B (A, B) Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving: 58 (1983), 58-59, FIGS.1-4 (A, B, SIDES) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 37, 44, FIGS.3, 10 (A, B) Phritzilas, S., Chthonia Gorgona, ho mythos sten hellenike keramike (Tripoli, 2010): 94-95, FIGS.5-6, 104, FIG.15 (A, UH, B) Phritzilas, S., Ho Zographos tou Thisea, I attiki angeigraphia stin epochi tis neosystatis athenaikis demokratias (Athens, 2006): PL.31.101 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: BF skyphos. From Gnathia (perhaps). Circle of Theseus Painter
(Reho-Bumbalova). Late sixth (Reho-Bumbalova).
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles leading a monster (Lamia or Cerberus, author) to right on a
chain. B: hunt (so the author): at left, a large animal (boar?) to right; behind
it, a man lifts a double axe; at right, two men wearing piloi threaten the
animal with spears (the author says they have punctured its eye, but the eye
seems missing in a gap). Under each handle, a heron.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: between the monster and Heracles, probably diagonally downward, i.e.,
retr.: ο(ι)(κ)^ο(ν)(>){1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} hard to read, although the ph. is excellent. I think nonsense, while the
author on p. 56 reads: οι(χ)οκα, from οιχομαι: `sono finito,' or `sono
rovinato'. The form she says is οιχωκα or ωιχωκα. But the identification of some
of the letters is quite unclear to me.
CAVI Comments: The writing is very coarse. The writer signs as of the Italian embassy at
Sofia, whence I asssume that Monopoli is in Bulgaria.
CAVI Number: 5113a
AVI Bibliography: Reho-Bumbalova (1983), 53-60, figs. 1-4 (1 shows inscription).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
