Decoration: Body: YOUTH ARMING (ACHILLES OR MENELAOS ?, NAMED), THETIS (NAMED) HOLDING SWORD, WOMAN WITH SPEAR AND SHIELD
Last Recorded Collection: Leipzig, Antikenmuseum der Universität Leipzig: T3327
Publication Record: Barringer, J.M., Divine Escorts, Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 1995): PL.12 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LEIPZIG, ANTIKENMUSEUM DER KARL MARX UNIVERSITAT 2, 25, PL.(82) 21.1 View Whole CVA Plates Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.11, THETIS 40 (PART OF BD) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 4 (BD) Paul, E., Antike Keramik (Leipzig, 1982): 58.22 Paul, E., Schwarzfigurige Vasen, Kleine Reihe des Antiken-Museums der Universität Leipzig, 1 (1995): 15, NO.7 (COLOUR) Paul, E., Universität Leipzig, Antikenmuseum, 50 Meisterwerke (Leipzig, 1994): 8, NO.13 (COLOUR)
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Cerveteri. Archippe Group (Bothmer){1}. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Young warrior arming (Achilles?); on either side, a woman (woman and
Thetis?).
CAVI Inscriptions: Above the youth's head, close to the top: Με[νε]λ̣εος. To left of the woman
at right, below her middle, facing her: Θετις, retr.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} near the Tyrrhenian Group. Paul in CVA does not accept the attribution.
CAVI Comments: Paul considers Menelaus' name an error: the scene must be the arming of
Achilles. Cited by Schauenburg (1970: 32) as an example of a vase painter's
error in mythology. Dotted theta.
CAVI Number: 4169
AVI Bibliography: BADB 1746. — Frel (1964), 15/80. — E. Paul, CVA Leipzig 2, East Germany 2
(1973), pl. 21. — E. Paul (1982), 58/22.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
