Decoration: Body: THETIS WITH WREATH AND ARMS OF ACHILLES (NAMED), BOEOTIAN SHIELD, NEREIDS (WOMEN) WITH HELMET AND CORSLET, WARRIOR, DEVICE, BULL HEAD Shoulder: LIONS BETWEEN SIRENS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: E869
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 106.2 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 43 Buschor, E., Musen des Jenseits (1944): 44, FIG.34 (S) Böhm, S., Sphingen und Sirenen im archaischen Griechenland, Symbole der Ambivalenz in Bildszenen und Tierfriesen (Regensburg, 2020): 142, FIG.3 (SH) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 29 Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 395, FIG.3 (BD) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 2, III.Hd.10, PLS.(61-62) 12.1.3, 13 View Whole CVA Plates Egeler, M., Walküren, Bodbs, Sirenen, Gedanken zur religionsgeschichtlichen Anbindung Nordwesteuropas an den mediterranen Raum (Berlin, 2011): 382, FIG.40 (DRAWING OF PART OF S) Hofstetter, E. et al., Vorsicht Lebensgefahr! Sirenen, Nixen, Meerjungfrauen in der Kunst seit der Antike, Katalog einer Ausstellung im Winckelmann-Museum vom 20. Oktober 2013 bis 19. Januar 2014 (Ruhpolding and Mainz, 2013): 44, FIG.37 (SH) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.736, SEIRENES 50 (S) Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 19 (1990) 48, PL.2.5 (BD) Powell, B., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The Essential Books (Oxford, 2015): 193, FIG.19.1 (PART OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF HYDRIA. ARCHIPPE GROUP (TYRRHENIAN GROUP IV){1}. SECOND QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: LIONS BETWEEN SIRENS. BODY: ACHILLES RECEIVING HIS ARMOR FROM
THETIS.
CAVI Inscriptions: SHOULDER: PARTLY NONSENSE AND MOCK INSCRIPTIONS: TO LOWER RIGHT OF THE LEFT
SIREN: σιλετον. ABOVE THE LEFT LION'S BACK: λεονο, RETR. BELOW HIS BELLY:
λι̣ε(ο)(σ), RETR. ABOVE AND TO RIGHT OF THE RIGHT LION: σοιρο, RETR. BELOW HIS
BELLY: ζλει, RETR.{2}. TO LEFT OF THE RIGHT SIREN'S STOMACH: Σιρεν (ε)ιμι{3}.
BODY: TO RIGHT OF ODYSSEUS' LEGS (HE FACES LEFT), NOT FACING HIM: Ολυτ[τ]ευς,
RETR. SIMILAR FOR ACHILLES (WHO FACES RIGHT): Αχιλ[λ]ευς. IN FRONT OF THE
LEFT-FACING THETIS' FACE, FACING HER: Θετις, RETR. SIMILAR FOR THE FIRST NEREID:
Ποντι(α){4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} MAY BE BY THE SAME HAND AS THE NAME PIECE, VIENNA 3613 [EX OEST. MUS.
220] (ABV). {2} OR σλει, WITH REVERSED SIGMA? {3} THE SECOND EPSILON = TAILED
DIGAMMA. {4} SEE BEAZLEY IN AJA: HE DID NOT SEE A FINAL LETTER; IF THERE IS ONE,
HE PREFERS Ποντια (NEWTON AND BIRCH, REPORT ON THE CAMPANA COLLECTION 9) TO
JOHANSEN'S Ποντις. RECENT PUBLICATIONS SHOW THAT THE ALPHA IS THERE, THOUGH
MISSHAPEN.
CAVI Comments: THE ABOVE READINGS ARE FROM CVA, BEFORE THE VASE WAS CLEANED.
CAVI Number: 6273
AVI Bibliography: E. POTTIER, CVA LOUVRE 1, FRANCE 1 (1923), III H D, PLS. 12,1-3, AND 13. —
BEAZLEY (1935), 483. — BUSCHOR (1944), 44, FIG. 34. — ABV (1956), 106/IV 2. —
PARA. (1971), 43. — [[GROPENGIESSER (1977), 591 WITH PH. FIG. 11 (QUITE CL.)]].
— MALAGARDIS (1988), 395, FIG 3 (A). — ADD.[2] (1989), 29. — ATTSCR (1990), NO.
215.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
