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)
