Decoration: Body: WEDDING OF HERAKLES AND HEBE, HERAKLES (DRAPED OVER LION SKIN), HEBE, APHRODITE (?), ALTAR, DEMETER (?), (GODDESS WITH TORCHES) ATHENA, APOLLO, HERMES, WOMEN WITH CUSHIONS AT KLINE, WITH TORCHES, MIRROR SUSPENDED
Last Recorded Collection: Warsaw, National Museum: 142319
Previous Collections:
Goluchow, private, Czartorski: 165
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: GOLUCHOW, MUSEE CZARTORYSKI, 17, PL.(016) 16.1A.1B.1C View Whole CVA Plates Frontisi-Ducroux, F. and Vernant, J-P., Dans l'oeil du miroir (Paris, 1997): PL.21 (PART) Jourdain-Annequin, C. and Bonnet, C. (eds.), Heracles, Les femmes et le feminin, IIe rencontre Heracleenne, Colloque de Grenoble (Brussels, 1986): 255-257, FIGS.7-11 Ktema: 15 (1990) PL.3.10 AT P.194 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.152, HERAKLES 3335 (PART) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 207, FIG.9.17 (PART) Oakley, J.H., and Sinos, R.H., The wedding in ancient Athens (Madison, 1993): 106-108, FIGS.100-104 (PARTS)
CAVI Lemma: BF tripod pyxis. Unattributed. Ca. 500.
CAVI Subject: Marriage of Heracles and Hebe: 1: Hermes, Apollo, Athena, preceded by a
female partially visible (with a torch) on 2. (Artemis?). 2: below `Artemis',
part of an altar; a female adjusting Hebe's veil (Aphrodite?); Hebe, lead by
Heracles. 3: Preparation of the bedroom: two females (Charites?) adjust pillows
on either end of a bed; at left, a female to left with torches (Hera?); on the
wall, a mirror.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: on 2.: to right of `Aphrodite's' head, diagonally upward: αιλο. To
right of Hebe's head, similar: 3 letters. To right of Heracles' head, similar:
two letters.
CAVI Comments: The inscriptions mark the happy couple.
CAVI Number: 7999a
AVI Bibliography: K. Bulas, CVA Goluchow, Czartoryski, Poland 1 (1932), pl. 16,1. —
Oakley–Sinos (1993), 35, figs. 100-104.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
