Inscriptions: Named: HIPPODAME, ASTERIA, IASO, EURYONE, POTHOS, EROS
Attributed To: KADMOS P by BUSCHOR
Decoration: A: WOMEN, SOME SEATED, ONE WITH CROWN, ONE WITH MIRROR, NAMED, EROS AND POTHOS (NAMED), ONE TYING SANDAL, ONE WITH TRAY WITH FOOD AND GRAPES OF VINE, PALM TREE, PLANTS, WREATH SUSPENDED, LYRE B: YOUTH IN PETASOS AND CHLAMYS WITH SPEARS (THESEUS ?) PURSUING WOMAN, WOMAN, TRIPOD ON COLUMN, SASH SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 03.821
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1186.29 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 452.2 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 460 Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.36.145 (PART OF A) Kondoleon, C. and Segal, P.C. (eds.), Aphrodite and the gods of love (Boston, 2011): 75, NO.54 (COLOUR OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.309, HIPPODAMEIA I1 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF neck amphora. From Suessula. Kadmos Painter. Ca. 400 (Beazley).
CAVI Subject: A: Uncertain subject: women (heroines?) with Erotes. B: a youth (Theseus?)
pursuing a woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: in white above the heads: Ευρυνοη. Ποθος. Ιπποδαμη. Ερως. Ιασω. Αστερια.
Under the foot, Graffiti: Σπαθαι : ΙΙ and opposite Ι-Ι-. Separately, Θ.
CAVI Comments: Mixed alphabet (Ionic except for three-stroke sigma). Hippodameia was the
bride of Pelops: the Kadmos Painter had Peloponnesian sympathies; possibly
Eurynoe is thought of as a bride (Beazley). For the graffiti, see Beazley in
AJA, with numerous parallels by the Pothos Painter and on Polygnotan vases, etc.
The single theta is found also on Madrid 11,075, by the Pothos Painter. Spathe
is a vase shape; see Johnston (1979), 230: this vase proves that σπαθη is a vase
name; he thinks, a long narrow shape and hence suitable for neck amphorae (on
which the Gr. appears), which are also called μακρα.
CAVI Number: 2729
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), iii, 81/170, pl. 102, suppl. pl. 27. — Beazley (1941), 598/12.
— ARV[2] (1963), 1186/29. — Para. (1971), 460. — Johnston (1979), 98/12B 11
(theta) and 163/18F 1 (spathai). — AttScr (1990), no. 783, fig. 145 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
