46975, ATHENIAN, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, New York (N.Y.), Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman, New York (N.Y.), Atlantis Antiquities, 96.AE.92
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 96.AE.92
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), Atlantis Antiquities
New York (N.Y.), Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman: 34
Publication Record: A Passion for Antiquities, Ancient Art from the Collection of Barbara and Lawrence Fleischman (Malibu, 1994): 82-3, NO.34 (COLOUR OF A,B) Marchetti, C. (ed.), L'Arma per l'Arte, Archeologia che ritorna (Livorno, 2009): 16, 31 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF A) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 70, FIG.34 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Painter of Berlin 1686 (Bothmer). Third quarter sixth. Ca. 540
(Wight–Guy).
CAVI Subject: A, B, each: Heracles and Geryon.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: behind Heracles, along the margin: eight letters. To his right,
facing him: ειοτοχειοτ(.)σε(.){1}. Between Geryon's legs: ειοτολολ{2}. Behind
Geryon's legs: eight letters. B: replica of the scene and of the inscriptions,
except that the inscription on Heracles' right is placed between his legs. The
number of letters also differs: 10 letters - 10 letters - 10 letters - 13-14
letters (smeared at end).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} letter 11 = a filled upside down triangle; letter 14: a thick dot. {2}
the sixth letter perhaps upsilon: ειοτουολ.
CAVI Comments: The inscriptions are typical of this painter.
CAVI Number: 3360
AVI Bibliography: Atlantis (1988), 38-40, fig. 35 (A, reversed) and p. 41 (part of B). —
Wight–Guy (1994), 81/34 (ill., A, B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
