Decoration: A: JUDGEMENT OF PARIS, FLEEING, HERMES, GODDESSES WITH FILLETS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: HERAKLES AND KYKNOS, FALLING BETWEEN WOMEN WITH SPEARS, ONE WITH FILLET, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F31
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 313.1 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 3, III.HE.10, III.HE.13, PLS.(148,154) 11.6.9, 17.2 View Whole CVA Plates Dietrich, N., Das Attribut als Problem, Eine bildwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur griechischen Kunst (Berlin, Munich, and Boston, 2018): 193, FIG.3.29 (A) Zardini, F., The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos, A Study in Greek Vase-Painting and Literature (Verona, 2009): 272, 516, FIGS.6, 110 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Witt Painter. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: Judgment of Paris. B: Heracles and Cycnus.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: inscribed. B: nonsense: to left of Heracles' right thigh: κσχεχσκσ, retr.
To right of his face: κνσν(ϙ)εσ, retr.{1}. To right of (behind) Cycnus' helmet:
κϙν(ε)σνq, retr. To lower right of the woman at right: κσεσκσνχσ, retr.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the koppa could be a phi; see AttScr.
CAVI Comments: I have no readings of A. The letters are in dilute glaze, large and clear.
Note that the nu's are not retr., and that the sigmas are.
CAVI Number: 6285
AVI Bibliography: F. Villard, CVA Louvre 10, France 17 (1951), pls. 11,6,9 and 17,2. — ABV
(1956), 313/1. — AttScr (1990), no. 1072.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
