Decoration: A: HERMES KILLING ARGOS, IO, ZEUS SEATED WITH SCEPTRE B: COURTING YOUTHS, ONE WITH HARE, ONE WITH STAFF, MAN LEANING ON STAFF, ALL DRAPED Under handle: TREE, HORSE AND TREE
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 3729
Previous Collections:
Vienna, Österreichisches Museum: 338
Publication Record: Annali dell'Istituto di Correspondenza Archeologica: 1865, PL.I-K (A) Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 183 (MAY 2000) 104 BOTTOM (COLOUR OF PART OF A) Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1985, 273-74, FIGS.54-56 (A, SIDES) Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1994, 377, FIG.5 (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1573 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 288.1, 1642 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 176.1 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 110.1 Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): 1890-1, PL.11.1 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 209 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: WIEN, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 2, 15-16, PL.(66) 66.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indegni, Volume Quarto, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi 14-19 maggio 2001 (Rome, 2007): 76, FIG.2 (A) Kahil, L. and Auge, C. and Linant de Bellefonds, P., Iconographie Classique et Identites Regionales, BCH Supp. 14 (Athens, 1986): 8, FIG.5 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.443, IO I.13 (A) Revue Archeologique: 1990, 1, 6, FIG.3 (A) Schefold, K., Die Göttersage in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1981): 135, FIG.174 (A) Wolff, E., Die Heldensagen der Griechen (Berlin, 1936): PL.A (A)
CAVI Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3729.
CAVI Lemma: RF stamnos. From Cerveteri. Argos Painter{1}. First quarter fifth. Beginning
fifth (Eichler).
CAVI Subject: A: Death of Argos by Hermes; Io as a cow before Zeus. B: a youth giving a
hare to a boy; a man leaning on his stick.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the scene: καλος Δαμα[ς]{2}. To left of Argos' shoulder: Αργος.
Under the foot, Gr.: chi over tau or delta over a vertical, with the diagonals
crossing; see Johnston (1979).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} "Very like the Geras Painter, but less old-fashioned," Beazley. {2} DAMA
[dotted delta, printed], CVA. Masner does not give the final sigma. The delta is
represented as dotted in Masner, ARV[2] and CVA.
CAVI Comments: Ex Oest. Museum 338.
CAVI Number: 7963
AVI Bibliography: Masner (1892), 52 (not ill.). — RE II/1 (1895), s.v. Argos 18, 793/3
(Wernicke). — Klein (1898), 125,3. — Engelmann (1903), 52f./11. — RE IX/2
(1916), s.v. Io, 1738 (Eitrem). — H. Metzger (1951), 339 n. 5. — Rocco (1953),
89/IV. — F. Eichler, CVA Vienna 2, Austria 2 (1959), pl. 66,1-4; p. 15, facs. of
Gr. — ARV[2] (1963), 288/1 (much bibl.), 1642. — Johnston (1979), 108/5C 5 and
p. 200. — Add.[2] (1989), 209.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
