Decoration: A,B: AMAZONOMACHY, YOUTH WITH SPEARS (GREEK, THESEUS ?) PURSUING AMAZON WITH AXE (ANTIOPE ?), AMAZONS, ONE WITH AXE, ALL IN PATTERNED SUITS, SPEARS
Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 632
Publication Record: Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 470, FIGS.46.1-2 (A, B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 974.28 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 150.20 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.94 (A) Smith, H.R.W., Der Lewismaler (Mainz, 1974): PLS.16-17, 30I, 33E-F (A, B, UH, DRAWING OF GRAFFITO)
CAVI Lemma: RF skyphos. Lewis Painter. Second quarter fifth. Late: 465-460 (Smith).
CAVI Subject: A: a Greek{1} pursuing (or following) an Amazon. B: two Amazons fleeing.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of the Greek's forehead: καλος{2}. Over the Amazon's head:
καλη{3}. B: on both sides of the top of the head of each Amazon: κα^λη and
κα^λη{4}. Under the foot, Etruscan Grr.: see CVA, pl. 30,i{5}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Smith says Theseus. {2} the photo shows: [κ](α)λος, with the alpha
lacking the cross stroke. {3} the photo shows καλ̣η. {4} photos show letters
incomplete. {5} the same Grr. on a skyphos by the Penelope Painter and a BF
amphora: see Smith, Lewis-Maler.
