Decoration: Body: WOMEN, SOME WITH HYDRIAI AT FOUNTAINHOUSE, WITH LION HEAD SPOUT Predella: ANIMAL FRIEZE, LIONS AND BOARS Shoulder: WARRIORS DEPARTING, CHARIOT, MEN, SOME OLD, WITH SCEPTRES (KINGS ?), ONE SEATED ON STOOL, WOMAN, ARCHER, DEVICES, DOLPHIN, DISCS, LEAF
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1843.11-3.66
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 266.3, 678 Burow, J., Der Antimenesmaler, Kerameus 7 (Mainz, 1989): PL.120, NO.122 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 69 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 6, III.H.E.9, PLS.(349,352) 90.4, 93.2 View Whole CVA Plates Jurriaans-Helle, G., Composition in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting, The Chariot in Profile Type Scene. Babesch Supplementa 41 (Leuven, Paris, and Bristol, 2021): 60, FIG.18 (COLOUR OF SH) Lucore, S. and Trumper, M. (eds.), Greek Baths and Bathing Culture. New Discoveries and Approaches (Leuven, 2013): 16, FIG.10 (COLOUR OF BD) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 12, FIG.7 Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst, Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 860, DADA163 (BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF HYDRIA. FROM VULCI. ANTIMENES PAINTER. LAST QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 520.
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: WARRIORS LEAVING HOME, ONE IN A CHARIOT. BODY: WOMEN AT THE
FOUNTAIN (SEVEN WOMEN).
CAVI Inscriptions: BODY: TEN NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS, TWO FOR EACH WOMAN (WHERE APPLIED), ONE NEAR
THE HEAD, THE OTHER BY THE LEGS: αρχνομ{1}. πογυοννον. - πσι(π)ο{2}. νυχεονο. -
(.)εοσεο{3}. πο(σ)νο(.)(.)ν{4}. - στονσν{5}. εγ(.)ποσγ. - BY THE HEAD OF THE
FIFTH WOMAN: (Σ)(ι)με καλε{6}. χαργκεχσ{7}. - NO INSCRIPTIONS BETWEEN THE SIXTH
AND SEVENTH WOMEN. THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE INDIVIDUAL
WOMEN. UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: ΣΟ (THREE-STROKE SIGMA). THE OMICRON IS DRAWN WITH A
COMPASS, SHOWING THE CENTRAL DOT. SEE JOHNSTON (1979), 21A/49.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE LAST LETTER LOOKS MORE LIKE A LOW MU THAN A FOUR-STROKE SIGMA TURNED
90 DEGREES. {2} WITH FOUR-STROKE SIGMA. {3} SIGMA THREE-STROKE. {4} SIGMA
THREE-STROKE? {5} SIGMA THREE-STROKE TWICE? {6} FOUR-STOKE SIGMA REVERSED? THE
IOTA IS A THICK BLOB. I DO NOT THINK THAT THIS INSCRIPTION REFERS TO EITHER
FIGURE. H. MOMMSEN (1997A), 50 AND N. 354: THINKS THIS IS A SERVANT OR A HETAERA
RATHER THAN A CITIZEN "WEGEN DES ABWERTENDEN NAMENS"; SHE REFERS TO HANNESTAD
(1984), 254. [BUT THERE ARE OTHER NAMES OF RESPECTABLE PERSONS THAT MAKE FUN OF
THEM; E.G. PORDAX]. SIME OCCURS ON THE EXEKIAS PLAQUE FR. F 1814, PROBABLY AS A
SERVANT'S NAME, AND AS A MAENAD NAME ON NAPLES STG. 172. {7} DONE FROM CVA.
CAVI Comments: DONE FROM THE PH. IN BUROW. THE READINGS IN CVA ARE OFTEN INACCURATE. BEAZLEY
SAYS IN JHS: "THE INSCRIPTIONS, WITH ONE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION, ARE MEANINGLESS:
THEY ARE GENUINE, BUT LOOK AS IF ... WRITTEN IN FRENCH HOTEL INK WITH A WAVERLEY
PEN." I NOTED THAT THIS COLOR IS NOT FOUND ELSEWHERE ON THIS VASE. - BUROW 42
NOTES PARALLELS FOR SIME: BERLIN PINAX BY EXEKIAS, ABV 146/22-23; MAENAD ON CUP
BY KALLIS PTR. IN NAPLES, ABV 203/1. - BUROW 41 NOTES THAT THE SIGMAS ARE
PECULIAR. THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO THREE-STROKE SIGMAS, THE REST ARE FOUR-STROKE
OF TWO SHAPES. THE LETTERING IS SMALL AND HARD TO MAKE OUT, BUT I SEE AT LEAST
ONE HIGH-KICKING ALPHA AND SEVERAL NU'S THAT ARE DIFFERENT FROM THE ANTIMENES
PAINTER'S NU'S. THE INSCRIPTIONS ARE NOT IN HIS HAND. - BUROW 74 DISCUSSES
FOUNTAIN SCENES.
CAVI Number: 4290
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), NO. 8035. — BEAZLEY (1927), 90 AND N. 11. — H.B. WALTERS,
CVA LONDON 6, GREAT BRITAIN 8 (1931), III H E, PLS. 90,4 AND 93,2. — ABV (1956),
266/3, 678. — ADD.[2] (1989), 69. — BUROW (1989), 42, 43.122, PL. 120. — ATTSCR
(1990), NO. 1091. — ROBERTSON (1992), 12, FIG. 7.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
