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)
