Decoration: A: AMAZONS, ONE ON HORSEBACK (ONE NAMED, MEMNON), SHIELD DEVICES, SNAKE, STAR B: DRAPED YOUTHS, ONE WITH STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Copenhagen, National Museum: 147
Previous Collections:
Copenhagen, National Museum: CHRVIII286
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 547.24 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: COPENHAGEN, NATIONAL MUSEUM 4, 115, PL.(150) 148.2A.2B View Whole CVA Plates Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.232, MEMNON 11 (A) Schmidt, S. and Steinhart, M. (eds.), Sammeln und Erforschen, Griechische Vasen in neuzeitlichen Sammlungen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Band VI (Munich, 2014): 84, FIG.3 (A, INCLUDING RESTORATION) Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst, Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 219, FIG.11.7, 729, FIG.45.3 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF column krater. Painter of London E 489. Ca. 450.
CAVI Subject: A: Memnon setting out for the Trojan War, with one companion mounted and
another on foot{1}. B: three youths conversing.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Μεμνον{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so CB. {2} Beazley says: "... I must say the inscription seemed genuine."
P.J. Riis says: "the inscription is ancient, but for the fourth letter..."
CAVI Comments: = inv. Chr. VIII 286. Much restored. The handles are alien. For the
inscription see AJA, p. 319.
CAVI Number: 3236
AVI Bibliography: C. Blinkenberg and K. Friis Johansen, CVA Copenhagen 4, Denmark 4 (1931), pl.
148,2. — CB (1931–63), ii, 16. — Beazley (1950), 318-19, fig. 5 (cleaned). —
ARV[2] (1963), 547/24.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
