Attributed To: EUKLEO CLASS by BLOESCH LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY POTTER C by BLOESCH
Decoration: A: ATHENA AND HERAKLES IN CHARIOT, APOLLO WITH KITHARA, HERMES KNEELING (ALL NAMED) B: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE FALLEN, DEVICES, DISCS, DOLPHINS, TRIPOD (ALL NAMED) Rim A: HERAKLES AND THE LION BETWEEN HERMES AND IOLAOS KNEELING, BETWEEN BOARS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B199
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 367.89 Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: 58.1 (2015), 43, FIG.1A (PART OF B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.He.8, PL.(159) 39.2A-B View Whole CVA Plates Jenkins, I. et al., Defining Beauty, The Body in ancient Greece (London, 2015): 104, BOTTOM, UNNUMBERED (COLOUR OF A) Jurriaans-Helle, G., Composition in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting, The Chariot in Profile Type Scene. Babesch Supplementa 41 (Leuven, Paris, and Bristol, 2021): 138, 267, FIG.47 (COLOUR OF A, A) Sengoku-Haga, K., Jenkins, I., et al., The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece from the British Museum (Osaka, 2011): 46, NO.16 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Leagros Group; Eukleo Class, potter C (Blösch). Last
quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: Mouth: A: Heracles and the Lion. Body: A: Heracles and Athena in a chariot.
B: battle of five warriors.
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: A: (Α)(θ)ενα, complete. hερακλες. Απολ[λ]ον. Below the horses' bellies:
Σοσιας{1}. By the head of one horse: Διος{2}. hερμες, first three letters retr.
B: Χαρ̣ιαδες, retr. Πυλες. (.)υλ(ε)ς, retr.{3}. Δικες. Δικε[ς]{4}.
Δευτερε[ς]{5}. Λ(ε)υκον.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} read Ροσιας as a horse name in the BM Cat. and in CVA. But see Beazley in
AJA. The sigmas are reversed, as are many other letters. {2} Considered a horse
name "unless Διος means (the chariot) of Zeus" (CVA). Dios is suitable for a
horse, but Sosias should be a human name. {3} I could not read the first letter,
which looks more like a smeared kappa than a pi; Beazley in AJΑ reads Πυλες for
the second occurrence and that was no doubt the intention. {4} Beazley also
reads ΔΙΚΕ, which is a repetition of the preceding name. {5} I thought I saw a
possible tip of a final sigma by a break, but Beazley read ΔΕΥΤΕΡΕ.
CAVI Comments: The intention in B was to give the warriors regular human names. Very coarse
Leagran writing. The first alpha is upside down.
CAVI Number: 4254
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7552b. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great Britain 4
(1927), III H e, pl. 39,2a-b. — Beazley (1929a), 363/5. — ABV (1956), 367/89. —
AttScr (1990), no. 440.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
