Decoration: A: KADMOS AND HARMONIA IN CHARIOT DRAWN BY LION AND BOAR, APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA, ALL NAMED B: ATHENA WITH OWL, HERAKLES, HERMES, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: CA1961
Previous Collections:
Paris, Musée du Louvre: F384BIS
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 248.135 Cavalier, O. (ed.), Silence et Fureur, La femme et le marriage en Grece, Les antiquites grecques du Musee Calvet (Avignon, ca.1997): 435, FIG.130 (COLOUR OF A) Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 239.135 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.240, HARMONIA 9 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.562, KADMOS I45 (A) Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 130, FIG.103 (COLOUR OF A) Onians, J., Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome (New Haven, 1999): 35, FIG.26 (A) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 37, FIG.27 (PART) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens, 2009): 88, FIG.1 (DRAWING OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Diosphos Painter. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Cadmus and Harmonia in a chariot drawn by a lion and a boar; behind the
animals is Apollo citharoedus. B: Athena, Heracles, and Hermes. [Heracles going
to Olympus?]
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the pair's heads, curving around Harmonia's forehead: hαρμονια. In
front of their faces: Κασσμος, for Καδμος. To right of Apollo's lyre:
Απολ[λ]ον̣.
CAVI Comments: = Louvre F 384 bis, according to Haspels. Haspels has good readings. The
story of yoking a lion and a boar to the chariot belongs properly to the story
of Admetus; see Schauenburg and Shapiro. The same scene is found on a BF
oinochoe in Göttingen, inv. 23,5. Para. 185/23(7) (not inscribed).
CAVI Number: 6671
AVI Bibliography: WV (1869–91), C, pl. 7,3. — Haspels (1936), 96-9/135 and 239[[/135]] (bibl.).
— Schauenburg (1957), 215, pl. 2. — Para. (1971), 248. — Threatte (1980), 567,
bottom. — LIMC ii (1984), 288, Apollon 851; 1007, Athena 54; — LIMC iv (1988),
413, Harmonia 9. — LIMC v (1990), 872, Kadmos 45. — Shapiro (1993), 240-41, 96,
fig. 48, 97.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
