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)
