Decoration: A: GODDESS (LETO) MOUNTING CHARIOT, APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA, ARTEMIS WITH TORCH, HERMES B: DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN AND VINE, BETWEEN MAENADS WITH KROTALA, AND SATYRS
Last Recorded Collection: Worcester (MA), Art Museum: 1956.83
Previous Collections:
Rome, market
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 335.5BIS Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 148 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 91 Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 9 (1998) 3, 34, FIG.4 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Rycroft Painter. Last quarter sixth. Late (Beazley).
CAVI Subject: A: Apollo mounting a chariot; Artemis hands him the cithara; behind the
horses, Hermes greeting Apollo; in front of them, Leto. B: Dionysus with maenads
and satyrs.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: starting from behind the top of Apollo's head downward along his back,
facing him: Απολ[λ]ονος, retr. In a similar position on Artemis' right:
Αρτεμιδος. Behind Hermes' head, curving upward over the horses' heads: hερμου.
Above Leto's head, nearly vertical: Λετους{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} all inscriptions done from the photo in Shapiro. The last two letters of
Leto's name are unclear in it, but they are certain.
CAVI Comments: I believe the descriptions of A in ABV and Shapiro are erroneous. Note the
diphthong `ου'; see Threatte (1996), 260.
CAVI Number: 8038
AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 335/5 bis. — Para. (1971), 148. — Add.[2] (1989), 91. — Shapiro
(1989), 57 n. 92, pl. 28,c (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
