Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, ACHILLES, WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, AND PENTHESILEA, DEVICE, WREATH B: WARRIOR (MEMNON) BETWEEN BLACK YOUTHS (SQUIRES) WITH CLUBS, ONE WITH PELTA, DEVICE DISC (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B209
Publication Record: Angiolillo, S., Arte e cultura nell'Atene di Pisistrato e dei Pisistratidi (Bari, 1997): 153, FIG.86 (B) Arion, A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, Boston University: 1.2 (1991) 267-268, FIGS.5-6 (A, B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 144.8, 686 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 60 Bentz, M. (ed.), Vasenforschung und Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum I (Munich, 2002): 24, FIG.5, 26, FIG.5A (A, PROFILE) Berard, C., L'Image de l'autre et le Heros Etranger, Sciences et Racisme (Lausanne, 1986): 11, FIGS.5-6 (A, B) Boardman, J., The Greeks Overseas, 4th edition (London, 1999): 153, FIG.194 (PART) Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.324 (B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 39 Clark, A.J. and Gaunt, J. (eds.), Essays in Honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, Allard Pierson Series 14 (Amsterdam, 2002): PL.54C (PART OF B) Cohen, B. (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal, Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (Leiden, Boston and Köln, 2000): 396, FIG.15.4-5 (A, B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 4, IIIHe.4, PL.(194) 49.1A-C 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): 88, FIGS.1A-B (UH) Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): III, PL.207 (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 41, NOTE 2 Huf, L., Frauen jenseits der Konvention, Alterszüge, Tätowierungen und afrikanische Physiognomien im Frauenbild attischer Vasen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Munich, 2018): 120, FIGS.43.1-4 (COLOUR OF B AND PARTS OF B) Ivantchik, A.I., Am Vorabend der Kolonisation, Das nördliche Schwarzmeergebiet und die Steppennomaden des 8.-7. Jhs. v. Chr. in der klassischen Literaturtradition, Mündliche Überlieferung, Literatur und Geschichte (Berlin and Moscow, 2005): 78, FIG.3 (B) Jenkins, I. et al., Defining Beauty, The Body in ancient Greece (London, 2015): 211, UNNUMBERED (COLOUR OF B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.475, AMAZONES 260 (A) Mackay, E.A., Tradition and Originality, A Study of Exekias (Oxford, 2010): 391, FIG.4, PLS.49-51, CHARTS 1.4, 2.2, 3.5, 7.2, 9.2 (A, B, N, UH, PROFILE, PARTS) Morais, R., Centeno, R., and Freitas Ferreira, D. (eds.), Myths, Gods and Heroes. Greek Vases in Portugal – Mitos, Deuses e Heróis. Vasos Gregos em Portugal (Porto, 2022): I, 250, FIG.8 (COLOUR OF PART OF B) Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1987): 150-151, FIGS.6, 8A-B (B, INCLUDING PARTS) Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias hat mich gemalt und getöpfert, Ausstellung in der Archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 9.11.2018-31.3.2019 (Zurich, 2018): 39-40, FIGS.9-10 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D., Looking at Greek Art (Cambridge, 2011): 199, FIG.74 (B) Villing, A. et al., Troy, myth and reality (London, 2019): 31, FIG.19 (COLOUR OF B)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Exekias. Third quarter sixth. Ca. 540.
CAVI Subject: A: Achilles and Penthesilea. B: Memnon between two Ethiopian attendants.
CAVI Inscriptions: B: to left of Memnon's head: Α̣ΟΙΗΣN. To right of his head: Αμασις. Under the
foot, Dip. in black: a crossed pair and some single lines, very thin. Vidi. Not
in Johnston (1979).
CAVI Comments: = 1849.5-18.10. The inscriptions "may be intended for Αμασις εποιησεν," CVA.
The inscriptions were cleaned in 1947 and the first letter turned out to be a
clear, though damaged, alpha. - The first inscription is nonsense, but both
pretend to be the squires' names. Boardman takes the second inscription to be a
joke on the potter's name; see AttScr (1990), 33 n. 8, and no. 138. -
Lissarrague (1990), 24 discusses the inscriptions on B, with bibl.
CAVI Number: 4256
AVI Bibliography: Kretschmer (1894), 124. — Beazley (1929), 130. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 4,
Great Britain 5 (1929), III H e, pl. 49,1a-c. — Dugas (1932), 335-40. — A.D.
Fraser (1935), 37, pl. 7,a (B). — ABV (1956), 144/8, 686. — Para. (1971), 60. —
Add.[2] (1989), 39 (much bibl.). — AttScr (1990), no. 134 and chart on p. 35.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
