Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND KYKNOS, ATHENA, ZEUS, ARES (NAMED), SHIELD DEVICES, SNAKE, BIRD B: TYNDAREUS, KASTOR (BOTH NAMED) WITH HORSE (DIOSKOUROI) C: EROTIC, YOUTHS AND MEN, ONE MASTURBATING, ONE WITH SPEAR OR JAVELIN AND ARYBALLOS, ONE WITH HARE, DOG
Last Recorded Collection: Aegina, Archaeological Museum
Publication Record: Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 236-38, APP.4 (A, B, C) Brinkmann, V., Beobachtungen zum formalen Aufbau und zum Sinngehalt der Friese des Siphnierschatzhauses (Ennepetal, 1994): 99 (DRAWING OF C) Golden M. and Toohey, P., Inventing Ancient Culture, Historicism, periodization, and the ancient world (London, 1997): 45, PL.8 (C, PART) Lear, A. and Cantarella, E., Images of ancient Greek pederasty, Boys were their gods (London and New York, 2008): 184, FIG.7.3 (C) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.696, KYKNOS I 70 (PART) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 45, FIG.20 (C) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PLS.42C, 68A (C, PART) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art, Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 3-6, FIGS.3A-E (COLOUR) Zardini, F., The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos, A Study in Greek Vase-Painting and Literature (Verona, 2009): 298, FIG.2 (A) von den Hoff, R. and Schmidt, S. (eds.), Konstruktionen von Wirklichkeit. Bilder im Griechenland des 5. und 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Stuttgart, 2001): 205, FIG.4 (C)
CAVI Lemma: BF tripod pyxis. From Aegina, Sanctuary of Aphaia. Amasis Painter. Third
quarter sixth. Ca. 540.
CAVI Subject: On the three legs: A: Heracles and Cycnus. B: Departure of Castor and
Pollux{1}. C: Three pairs of male lovers between two onlookers.
CAVI Inscriptions: On A: [Αθε]ν̣αιας. Ζευς. Κυκν̣ο̣ς. Αρες. Along the right-hand margin: Ελιος
οιδεν και εγο μhονος :* αυτος παιδα καλον. On B: [Τυνδα]ρεο. Καστορ̣ or
Καστορ̣[ος]. On C: [καλο]ς. [Ἀνθ]ε̣μι̣[ο]ν :* καλο[ς]. [Αμασις μεποι]ε̣σεν.
[Απρο]φασιστος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} to rescue Helen from Athens (Shapiro).
CAVI Comments: The metrical inscription on A is erotic and unrelated to the scene. αυτος,
(adv.) E.L. Brown. "The Sun and likewise I alone know a handsome boy." The name
of the boy is concealed for fear of the competition, cf. Anth. Pal. 7.100.
Further, AttScr, loc. cit. C: Anthemion, M. Robertson; ε̣ με̣ν :* καλο[ς], D.
Ohly. Signature: less likely without με.
CAVI Number: 0077
AVI Bibliography: Ohly-Dumm (1985), 236-38, app. 4. — SEG 35 (1985[88]), 252. — Shapiro (1989),
152-53, pl. 68,a (detail). — AttScr (1990), no. 152.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
