Decoration: Body: HERAKLES AND THE LION, HERMES, ATHENA, IOLAOS WITH QUIVER Shoulder: ACHILLES PURSUING TROILOS, POLYXENE FLEEING, WOMAN, WARRIOR, HYDRIAI, ONE BROKEN, DEVICES, DISCS, HEAD OF BULL
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B307
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Vulci. Leagros Group. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: Achilles and Troilos, with Polyxena, a woman, and a warrior{1}.
Body: Heracles and the Lion, between Hermes and Iolaus; behind Heracles,
Athena{2}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: nonsense: below Heracles: νεννο{3}. Above Iolaus: χεν(σ)ποκ. To right
of his legs: (σ)κο̣κ. Also: χοι.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the greater part is modern. {2} only the right half is well enough
preserved to show inscriptions. {3} so my reading from the vase; the photo
seemed to show it retr.
CAVI Comments: The sideways sigmas are easily mistaken for reversed nu's.
CAVI Number: 4277
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — H.B. Walters in BM Cat. B (1893), 178. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 6,
Great Britain 8 (1931), III H e, pls. 76,4 and 80,1. — ABV (1956), 361/17. —
Para. (1971), 161. — LIMC i (1981), pl. 88, Achilleus 301. — Add.[2] (1989), 96.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)