CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Orvieto. Antiphon Painter (Williams); Onesimos (O) (Beazley){1}.
First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: Beazley: a mounted archer. Löwy, Klein, Vos and Hölscher: a mounted
Persian. Vos refers to Hdt. 7.61 for the cuirass. The archer turns back his head
and does not use his bow. Ext.: plain.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Hartwig: Onesimos. Beazley, ARV[1] 223/10: manner of Onesimos; ARV[2]
329/132: Onesimos. Williams: Antiphon Painter. {2} G. Körte, Annali 1877,
139/33: τορι, unexplained. Löwy 140: for Δορις, restored [εγραφσεν], of which
there is no trace. Hartwig: perhaps the rider's barbarian name. Beazley:
ΤΟΡΙ[.], with only room for one letter, unexplained. Williams: χορι[ς](?). W.
notes that the chi in ναιχ[ι] looks rather like a tau; the cup dates soon after
490; W. compares the famous expression χωρὶς ἱππεῖς (cf. the Suda: connected
with Marathon); W. thinks the cup shows one of the Ionian sympathizers on his
way to tell the Greek army that the Persian cavalry is now separated.
CAVI Comments: Tailed rho.
CAVI Number: 5821
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 329/132. — Vos (1963), 44f., pl. 14,b. — Para. (1971), 359. —
T. Hölscher (1973), 39, no. B 1, and 40f. — Raeck (1981), 134, no. P 578. — D.
Williams (1986), 75-81, pl. 12,1-2. — Add.[2] (1989), 217.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
