Decoration: A: HERA, IRIS, LION B: HERAKLES AND THE LION, ATHENA
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: X21.15
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: GR523
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 20 (1916), 441, FIG.5 (B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: NEW YORK, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART 4, 65, PL.(778) 50.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 239.138 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.490, IRIS I 70 (A) Richter, G. & Milne, M., Shapes and Names of Athenian Vases (New York, 1935): FIG.17 (B) Studi Etruschi: 77 (2014) PL.6A AND B (A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. DIOSPHOS PAINTER. CA. 500 (BOTHMER).
CAVI Subject: A: HERACLES AND THE NEMEAN LION, WITH ATHENA; BETWEEEN THEM, UPRIGHT, THE
CLUB. B: HERA SENDING OUT IRIS, WITH THE NEMEAN LION (M. MILNE){1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: A: TO RIGHT OF ATHENA'S HEAD: 5 IMITATION LETTERS: υχυχι{2}. TO
LEFT OF THE CLUB: χιχχχεχ (RETR.?){3}. B: CURVING AROUND THE LION'S HEAD: 8
IMITATION LETTERS: ιιχχχυυυ, RETR. TO RIGHT OF IRIS' LEFT THIGH: 5 LETTERS:
χχχλχ.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THIS SHOULD BE A. {2} VERY TINY LETTERS. {3} SO THE PH. AND CVA, TEXT;
THE EPSILON IS LARGE AND VERY CLEAR.
CAVI Comments: = X.21.15. A SMALL VASE.
CAVI Number: 5739
AVI Bibliography: LUCE (1916), 440 FF., FIG. 5. — V.POL. (1928), 4. — RICHTER–MILNE (1935),
FIG. 17. — HASPELS (1936), 239/138. — M.B. MOORE AND D. VON BOTHMER, CVA NEW
YORK 4, USA 16 (1976), PL. 50,1-2 (BIBL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
