Attributed To: EPIMEDES P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: YOUTHS, ONE IN CHLAMYS AND PETASOS WITH SPEARS, ONE IN CHLAMYS AND PILOS WITH CLUB AND SPEARS (KEPHALOS, NAMED), EOS (NAMED) PURSUING B: WOMEN, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional: L171
Previous Collections:
Madrid, Museo Arqueologico Nacional: 11097
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1043.2 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 478 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MADRID, MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL 2, IIIIC.9, PL.(76) 19.1A-C View Whole CVA Plates Leroux, G., Vases grecs et italo-grecs du Musee Acheologique de Madrid (Bordeaux, 1912): PL.23 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.568, SISYPHOS II 1 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: IN THE CENTER, EOS TO RIGHT, PURSUING THE FLEEING CEPHALUS WHO HAS
PETASOS, A CLUB AND TWO SPEARS; AT LEFT YOUNG SISYPHUS FLEES TO LEFT WHILE
LOOKING BACK, ALSO WITH PETASOS AND TWO SPEARS. B: BEARDED MAN BETWEEN TWO
WOMEN.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: ABOVE SISYPHUS' HEAD, HORIZONTAL: Σισυφος. ABOVE AND TO RIGHT OF HER HEAD,
HORIZONTAL: NϝΟς(1) FOR (H)(ε)ος. NOT VIS. IN PH., BUT GIVEN IN L.'S TEXT:
Κε[φ]α[λ]ο[ς]{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO THE TEXT OF LEROUX, WITH SIGMA 1. OMICRON PRINTED AS TWO HALF CIRCLES.
L. TRANSCRIBES: `νεος (POUR Ηως(?))'. AA PRINTS: Nϝεος. {2} Κε[φα]λοπς(?). SO MY
EARLIER READING. MATHESON GIVES: Σισυφος. NΕΥΣ. [SIC]. Κε[φαλ]ος. [SIC].
CAVI Comments: = 171. BASED MAINLY ON LEROUX. MATHESON ON P. 211 SAYS THAT SISYPHOS IS HERE
THE NAME OF A COMPANION OF CEPHALUS; HE IS KALLIMACHOS ON CAB. MéD. 423, GROUP
OF POLYGNOTOS. BUT I WONDER IF THESE INSCRIPTIONS ARE GENUINE. ATTIC ALPHABET
WITH IONIC LAMBDA(?).
CAVI Number: 4894
AVI Bibliography: BETHE (1893), 7-8 (NOT ILL.). — ALVAREZ-OSSORIO (1910), PL. 36,2 (A). —
LEROUX (1912), 95/171, PL. 23 (SHOWS LOCATIONOF FIRST TWO INSCRIPTIONS). — J.R.
MéLIDA, CVA MADRID 2, SPAIN 2 (1944), PL. 19,1. — ARV[2] (1963), 1043/2. — LIMC
III (1986), 762, EOS 97. — MATHESON (1995), *211, 398/EP2 (NOT ILL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
