Decoration: A: BIRTH OF ATHENA, ZEUS SEATED ON CHAIR WITH HORSE PROTOMAI, BETWEEN EILEITHYIAI, HERMES AND ARES, SHIELD DEVICE, TRIPOD B: HERAKLES AND THE LION BETWEEN ATHENA AND IOLAOS (WARRIOR) HOLDING CLUB
Last Recorded Collection: Richmond (VA), Museum of Fine Arts: 60.23
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 56.48TER Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.100 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 36 Ephemeris Archaiologike: 128 (1989) 109, FIG.4 (A) Etienne, R. and Le Dinahet, M-T., L'espace sacrificiel dans les civilisations mediterraneennes de l'antiquite (Paris, 1991): PL.78D (A) Korshak, Y., Frontal Faces in Attic Vase Painting of the Archaic Period (Chicago, 1977): 137, FIG.84 (A) Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 15, 144-145, NO.1 (COLOUR OF A, PART OF A, B) de La Geniere, J. (ed.), Hera, Images, espaces, cultes, Actes du Coll.Int.du Cent. de Rech. Archeologiques de l'Univ. de Lille III 1993 (Naples,1997): 99, FIG.5 (A)
CAVI Collection: Richmond, VA, Museum of Fine Arts 60.23.
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Group E. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: Birth of Athena: in the center, Zeus seated frontally; at left, Hermes and
Eileithyia(?); at right, Hera and Ares. B: Heracles and the Lion, between Athena
and Iolaus.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Nonsense: imitation: on Hera's lower right: a row of 9 blots, some
resembling letters. On Ares' lower right: 9 blots.
CAVI Comments: B is not inscribed.
CAVI Number: 6924
AVI Bibliography: Para. (1971), 56/48 ter. — Add.[2] (1989), 36. — Neils (1992a), 145/1,
colored pl. on p. 144 (A), b&w at p. 145 (B) (much bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
