Decoration: A: GIGANTOMACHY, ATHENA IN CHARIOT TURNING B: ACHILLES AND MEMNON, FIGHTING OVER ANTILOCHOS, EOS AND THETIS (?)
Last Recorded Collection: Luzern, market, Ars Antiqua
Publication Record: Ars Antiqua A.G., Lucerne, sale catalogue: 4 (7.12.1962), PL.44.131 (A, B) Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 7512
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Unattributed. Last quarter sixth. Ca. 510 (Schauenburg).
CAVI Subject: A: Athena mounting a chariot seen in three-quarter view. B: Duel of Achilles
and Memnon? Two fight over a fallen comrade (Antilochos?), with a woman
(goddess?) on each side.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of the scene, facing the margin: Αθεναα [κα]λε. To left of the
horses' croups: καλο[ς], retr. On the horses' right, starting below the mouth
and not parallel to the margin, past the horses' legs: καλος ^ hο ^ καδος{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} there is a blot above the horse's mouth but it cannot be part of the
inscription.
CAVI Comments: Ex Lucerne Market (A.A.). kados is here used for the amphora itself. For this
word, Schauenburg refers to Amyx, Hesp. 1958, 186ff. See also Sparkes–Talcott
(1970), 201-203 and Johnston (1979). Gr. on unglazed water jar from the
Ceramicus, Knigge (1976), 26, 192/ES 35, fig. 50, pl. 95,1.
CAVI Number: 7512
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), iii, 1 (under no. 114). — Cf. Amyx (1958), 186-90. —
Schauenburg (1962), 31/131, pl. 44. — Sparkes–Talcott (1970), 7 and 201 n. 1
(cf. 382). — Guarducci (1974), 486 n. 2. — Cf. Johnston (1979), 228/12F and n.
1. — Scheibler (1987), 60.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
