Decoration: A: NESTOR WITH GREAVE, ARMING, EUAICHME WITH HELMET AND SHIELD (BOTH NAMED) B: WOMAN WITH CHILD AND OLD MAN WITH STAFF (BOTH NAMED) BUILDING (IONIC COLUMN)
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 01.8097
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 785.2 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 268.1 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 418 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 289 Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 17 (1902) PL.2 Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 836, NO.164 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.20, EUAICHME I (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.753, NESTOR I (A) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 44, FIG.33 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF skyphos. From Vico Equense (Campania, NE of Sorrento). Euaichme Painter.
Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Nestor putting on his greaves and Euaichme holding his helmet and shield.
B: Aktor, looking back; at right Astyoche with her infant.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of Nestor's head, written toward him: Nεσστορ. To left of the
woman's forehεad: Ευαιχμε, retr. B: to right of Aktor's shoulder: Ακτορ. To
Astyoche's right: Α^σστ^υοχε{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the irregular spacing may be caused by imperfections in the glaze.
CAVI Comments: The inscriptions are in white, as is Aktor's hair. A late occurrance of retr.
CAVI Number: 2720
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 785/2. — Para. (1971), 418.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
