Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND THE LION BETWEEN IOLAOS AND ATHENA B: WARRIORS (NAMED, AKAMAS AND DEMOPHON) LEADING HORSES (BOTH NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: F1720
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 143.1, 686 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 59 Bentz, M. (ed.), Vasenforschung und Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum I (Munich, 2002): 24, FIGS.1, 3, 26, FIG.1A, 139, FIG.13 (A, UH, PROFILE, PART OF A) Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 29, FIG.16 (R) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 39 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIKENSAMMLUNG 14, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, BEILAGE 7.1, PLS.(4587,4588,4589,4615) 31.1-3, 32.1-2, 33.1-4, 59.1 View Whole CVA Plates Dietrich, N., Das Attribut als Problem, Eine bildwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur griechischen Kunst (Berlin, Munich, and Boston, 2018): 73, FIG.2.11 (A) Eschbach, N. and Schmidt, S. (eds.), Töpfer, Maler, Werkstatt. Zuschreibungen in der griechischen Vasenmalerei und die Organisation antiker Keramikproduktion (Munich, 2016): 92, FIG.5A (PART OF B) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 494, FIG.328 (B) Hurwit, J.M., Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2015): 81, FIG.41 (RIM) Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.7.28 (RO) Knittlmayer, B. and Heilmeyer, W-D., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Die Antikensammlung, Altes Museum - Pergamonmuseum (Mainz, 1998): 49, NO.20 (COLOUR OF A) Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Phyta kai Zoia. Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Österreich, Band 2 (Vienna, 2015): 97, FIG.1 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.36, HERAKLES 1792 (A) Mackay, E.A., Tradition and Originality, A Study of Exekias (Oxford, 2010): 390, FIG.3, PLS.30-32, CHARTS 1.2, 2.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 5.1, 6.2, 7.1, 9.1 (A, B, R, N, UH, PROFILE, PARTS) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 42 (2007) 22, FIG.2 (A) Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1987): 160, FIG.5 (B) Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias hat mich gemalt und getöpfert, Ausstellung in der Archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 9.11.2018-31.3.2019 (Zurich, 2018): 166-170, FIGS.105-109 (COLOUR OF A, B, UH, AND OR) Schwarzmaier, A. et al. (eds.), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, die Antikensammlung, Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Pergamonmuseum (Berlin and Darmstadt, 2012): 68-69, NO.29 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Schwarzmaier, A. et al., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, The Antikensammlung, Altes Museum, Neues Museum, Pergamonmuseum (Mainz, 2016): 68-69, NO 29 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Technau, W., Exekias (Leipzig, 1936): PLS.1-2 (A, B) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art II, Inscriptions and Representations on Athenian Vases (Athens, 2024): 105-106, FIGS.4-5 (COLOUR OF OL AND A)
CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. FROM VULCI. EXEKIAS. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. 550-540. EARLY
(BEAZLEY).
CAVI Subject: A: HERACLES AND THE NEMEAN LION. B: DEMOPHON AND AKAMAS LEADING THEIR
HORSES{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: [Ι]ολαος, RETR. Hερακλες. Αθε[ναια], RETR. B: Ακαμας, RETR. Φαλιος.
[Δε]μοφον. Ονετοριδες καλος, RETR. Καλ[λ]ιφορα[ς], RETR. ON THE RESERVED MOUTH,
IN BG: Ἐχσεκιας εγραφσε καποεσε εμε.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} LEAVING FOR TROY: SEE U. KRON IN LIMC I, 437, S.V. AKAMAS AND DEMOPHON.
ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THIS MYTH: MALIBU 78.AE.305.
CAVI Comments: THE SIGNATURE, AN IAMBIC TRIMETER, TAKES UP EXACTLY A HALF CIRCLE; SEE
ATTSCR. - THE LEFT HORSE IS Φαλιός [SIC ACCENT], `DAZZLING WHITE', OR HAVING A
WHITE FOREHEAD. THE SAME NAME ON THE BF PLAQUE BY EXEKIAS, BERLIN 1823 (SEE
BERLIN 1811-1826), TECHNAU (1936), PL. 127, UPPER RIGHT. THE RIGHT HORSE:
Καλλιφορα [SIC MOORE] = A HORSE WITH BEAUTIFUL MANE AND TAIL. CF. F. JESCHONNEK,
DE NOMINIBUS QUAE GRAECI PECUDIBUS DOMESTICIS INDIDERUNT (DISS. KöNIGSBERG 1885)
36 AND 40. [ALL THIS INFO. FROM MOORE.] THE HORSE KALLIPHORAS IS SHOWN AS A
STALLION; CF. ALSO TOLEDO 1980.1022, CAVI 7712.
CAVI Number: 2216
AVI Bibliography: FURTWäNGLER (1885), NO. 1720. — KIRCHNER (1948), PL. 4/8 (SIGNATURE). — ABV
(1956), 143/1, 686. — MOORE (1968), 358/1 (NOT ILL.). — PARA. (1971), 59. — CEG
(1983–9), I, NO. 436. — ADD.[2] (1989), 39 (MUCH BIBL.). — SHAPIRO (1989), 148
AND N. 50. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 132, FIG. 28.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
