Decoration: A: HYPNOS AND THANATOS WITH SARPEDON (?), EIDOLON, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: ARCHER AND WARRIOR, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS, DEVICE, HELMET
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F388
Publication Record: Cottone, S.C. and Marcinkowski, A. (eds.), Clémence Ramnoux, Œuvres. Tomes I et II (Paris, 2020): I, AT P.20 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Gerion: 27 (2009) 188, FIG.3 (A) Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 124, FIG.101 (A) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 238.133 Hyatt, S. (ed.), The Greek Vase (New York, 1981): FIGS.76-77 (A, B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.521, SARPEDON 7 (A) Miscellanea di Studi Classici in onore de Eugenio Manni (Rome, 1979): VI, PL.2 AT 1944 (A) Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.43B (A) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 136, FIG.89 (A) Willinghöfer, H., Thanatos, Die Darstellung des Todes in der griechischen Kunst der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Marburg, 1996): FIG.4 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: THANATOS AND HYPNOS, WINGED, WITH THE BODY OF SARPEDON (INCLUDING HIS
EIDOLON). B: ORIENTAL ARCHER AND HOPLITE.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: NONSENSE: IMITATION LETTERS: BETWEEN THANATOS AND HYPNOS: EIGHT LETTERS.
ABOVE SARPEDON: FIVE LETTERS. TO RIGHT OF THANATOS' SHIN: FOUR LETTERS.
CAVI Comments: A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE DIOSPHOS PAINTER'S NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS. A NUMBER OF
LETTERS HAVE A DEFINITE SHAPE AND COULD BE READ.
CAVI Number: 6377
AVI Bibliography: HEINEMANN (1913), PL. 1. — HASPELS (1936), 238/133. — HOLLOWAY (1980), PL. 2
AT P. 1949. — HYATT (1981), FIGS. 76-77. — SHAPIRO (1993), 247/71, 136, FIG. 89
(A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
