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 II, Inscriptions and Representations on Athenian Vases (Athens, 2024): 262, FIG.5 (COLOUR OF 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)
