Decoration: Body: WOMEN, SOME WITH HYDRIAI, AT FOUNTAINHOUSE (BUILDING) WITH LION HEAD SPOUTS AND NIKE, HYDRIAI ON BLOCKS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS Shoulder: DIONYSOS WITH DRINKING HORN AND WOMEN, ONE WITH BRANCH, SEATED ON BLOCKS, DRAPED MAN WITH BRANCH, HERMES
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1837.6-9.53
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 365.71 Buxton, R., La grece de l'imaginaire, les contextes de la mythologie (Paris, 1996): PL.11 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 97 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 6, III.H.E.9, PLS.(349,350) 90.2, 91.4 View Whole CVA Plates Journal of Hellenic Studies: 144 (2024) 16, FIG.2 (BD) Neils, J., Women in the ancient world (London, 2011): 118 (COLOUR OF BD AND S) Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1987): 73, FIG.13 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Vulci. Leagros Group. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: Nike in the center (the acroterion of the fountain); at left,
Dionysus and a woman, both seated, and a man decorating the fountain with
branches; at right, a woman doing the same and Hermes with a seated woman. Body:
6 girls at a fountain house.
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: four nonsense inscriptions: to right of the 2 girls at left: σκε(ν̣).
Around the left spout: χελκο. Around the fourth girl's head: χε(ν)οελ, retr. To
right of the heads of the 2 women at right: νε(ν)(σ).
CAVI Comments: = 1837.6-9.53. The inscriptions small and not very clear; the nu's
idiosyncratic (mostly reversed).
CAVI Number: 4289
AVI Bibliography: H.B. Walters, CVA London 6, Great Britain 8 (1931), III H e, pls. 90,2 and
91,4. — ABV (1956), 365/71. — Add.[2] (1989), 97.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
