Decoration: A: FIGHT, HORSEMAN IN THRACIAN COSTUME, FALLEN WARRIOR B: FIGHT, WARRIOR IN CHLAMYS AND PILOS, AMAZON (?) WITH PELTA AND SPEAR, DEVICE, WOLF Figure: AMAZON ON HORSEBACK
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 21.2286
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1669 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 772TH Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 416 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 141 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 287 Cohen, B., The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 285-287, NO.87 (COLOUR, X-RAY) Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indegni, Volume Quarto, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi 14-19 maggio 2001 (Rome, 2007): 83, FIG.10 (PART) Kondoleon, C., Grossmann, R.A., et al., MFA Highlights, Classical Art (Boston, 2008): 73 (COLOUR OF A) Lapatin, K. (ed.), Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Proceedings of a symposium held in connection with the exhibition The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006 (Los Angeles, 2008): XIV, 16, FIG.9 (COLOUR OF A, B) Mayor, A., The Amazons. Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (Princeton and Oxford, 2014): UNNUMBERED COLOUR PLATES, FIG.2 Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 84-85, FIGS.62-63 (PARTS) Sparkes, B.A., Greek Art, Second Edition (Cambridge, 2011): 115, FIG.36 (COLOUR OF PART)
CAVI Lemma: RF plastic rhyton (Amazon on horseback). From Meroe{1}. Unattributed{2}.
Sotades, potter. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Fight (on horse and foot: Greeks and Orientals: the Orientals uppermost).
Below: A, lion; B, boar{3}.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the front face of the vase's square plinth, left-aligned stoich.
two-liner, Gr.: Σοταδης | εποιησεν.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} found in the excavations of 1921-22, near pyramid S. xxiv. {2} Beazley
says pictures have no connection with the Sotades Painter, but he compares the
maeander. Hoffmann, p. 147 n. 2: decoration has little to do with Sotades
Painter and may be as late as 430. {3} copied from ARV[2].
CAVI Comments: Mixed alphabet. Very neat writing.
CAVI Number: 2791
AVI Bibliography: NNN (1923), BMusB 21: 25 and frontispiece. — NNN (1926), BMusB 24: 28. —
ARV[2] (1963), 772/θ, 1669. — Para. (1971), 416. — Add.[2] (1989), 287. — Cohen
(1991), 82 and n. 183, figs. 62-63. — Hoffmann (1997), 158/H1 (bibl.), 89-96,
figs. 50a-c, 52-54 (inscription not shown).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
