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)