Decoration: Body: MENELAOS WITH SWORD, HELEN, WOMAN Shoulder: SYMPOSIUM, YOUTHS RECLINING, ONE WITH CUP PLAYING KOTTABOS, ONE WITH SKYPHOS, BASKET SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1843.11-3.86
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 110 (2006) 377, FIG.12B (S) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 262.41 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 196.20 Beazley, J.D., Attic red-figured Vases in American Museums (Cambridge, 1918): 64 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 159.15 Birchall, A. and Corbett, P., Greek Gods and Heroes (London,1974): FIG.70 Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Hommes et Dieux de la Grece Antique (1.10-2.12.1982): 156-57, NO.91 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 205 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 5, III.Ic.11, PLS.(321,322) 71.1, 72.3 View Whole CVA Plates Eschbach, N. and Schmidt, S. (eds.), Töpfer, Maler, Werkstatt. Zuschreibungen in der griechischen Vasenmalerei und die Organisation antiker Keramikproduktion (Munich, 2016): 44, FIG.10 (BD AND PART OF BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.336, HELENE 248 Villing, A. et al., Troy, myth and reality (London, 2019): 103, FIG.84 (COLOUR OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: RF hydria. From Vulci. Syriskos Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: symposium: three men reclining. Body: Menelaus pursuing Helen; at
right, a woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: hο παις καλος, retr.{1}. Body: between Menelaus and Helen: hο
παυς{2}. To left of Helen's face: καλε. To Helen's right, wavy: hο πα(λ)ος{3}.
[Nearby?]: καλος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so CVA; the first sigma four-stroke and not retr., the second
three-stroke and retr. {2} so the dr.; C. Smith has hο παις, retr. {3} so the
dr.; the lambda upside down?
CAVI Comments: = 1843.11-3.86. My readings and the rendering in CVA and C. Smith do not
correspond in all detail; Smith is probably more accurate than CVA. I do not
know how accurate the dr. is. Some sigmas are four-stroke, perhaps reversed.
CAVI Number: 4513
AVI Bibliography: Photo of dr. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 147. — H.B. Walters and E.J.
Forsdyke, CVA London 5, Great Britain 7 (1930), III I c, pl. 71,1 and 72,3. —
ARV[2] (1963), 262/41. — Add.[2] (1989), 205.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
