Decoration: A: FIGHT, WARRIORS BETWEEN WOMEN AND DRAPED MEN, BOEOTIAN SHIELD B: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, BETWEEN WOMEN
Last Recorded Collection: Durham (N.C.), Duke University, Museum of Art: 1965.8
Previous Collections:
Northwick, private, Spencer-Churchill
Publication Record: A Generation of Antiquities, The Duke Classical Collection 1964-1994, Duke Univ. Museum of Art 20.1-26.3. 1995 (Durham, 1994): PL.13.39 (A, B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 105.3 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 43 Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 54-55, FIGS.6A-B (COLOUR OF A AND B)
CAVI Collection: Durham, NC, Duke University 1965.8.
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Near Tyrrhenian Group. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: duel of warriors, between two women and two men looking on. B: similar,
between two women looking on{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: to right of the left woman's head: κυο(σ)ν(ι){2}. Between the
warriors' heads: κτυεσκ. Between their knees: χσνπκσγ. To left of the face of
the man at right: κνγντυ. B: to right of the left woman's chest: κν(ν)(σ)γ{3}.
To right of her shins: χ[ν(σ)νιν{4}. Between the warriors' heads:
νσγκσνσγ(ι){5}. Between their knees: κτνσντν.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} may be Achilles and Memnon (M. Moore by letter). {2} the two letters in
brackets are unclear letters near breaks. {3} either retr., or not retr. with
reversed nu. {4} the fourth letter unclear. {5} the last letter more a dot than
a stroke.
CAVI Comments: Ex Northwick Park, Spenser-Churchill. All inscriptions but one start with
kappa or chi.
CAVI Number: 3398
AVI Bibliography: Photos. — ABV (1956), 105/3. — Para. (1971), 43. — Stanley (1994), 30/39, pl.
13 (A, B) and back cover (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
