Decoration: Body: WOMEN AT FOUNTAIN WITH PANTHER HEAD SPOUTS, HYDRIAI ON BLOCKS, TREE OR PLANT, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS Shoulder: GIGANTOMACHY, GODDESS, ATHENA (TWICE) AND GIANTS, SOME FALLEN, DEVICES, CRESCENT, DISC, DOLPHINS, DISCS
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1843.11-3.91
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Vulci. Leagros Group. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: gigantomachy. Body: Four women at two fountains.
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: nonsense. To left of the left girl's face: νχου. Between the third girl
and a hydria: νχε(ι). Around the head of the fourth girl: νχοσ and κρ (retr.).
To her lower right: (ν)οχει. Under the foot, Gr.: pi with attached diagonal. See
Johnston (1979), 76/16A 22.
CAVI Comments: Beazley compares London B 328 and B 337. Smith calls the inscriptions
Nearchos anagrams and suggests that κρ stands for κρ[ενε], but it is nowhere
near the fountains. - The nu's are reversed.
CAVI Number: 4291
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 6, Great Britain 8 (1931), III H e, pls.
92,2 and 93,4. — H.R.W. Smith, CVA San Francisco 1, USA 10 (1943), p. 31. — ABV
(1956), 366/72. — Add.[2] (1989), 97.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)