Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F384
Publication Record: Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 219.71 Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 50, 56, FIGS.1A-1C, 8B (A, H, PROFILE)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Diosphos Painter (Haspels). First quarter fifth.
Beginning fifth (Rouen cat.).
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and the Stymphalian birds: Heracles is about to throw a stone
from his slingshot at six birds. B: Iolaus(1) in hoplite outfit with slingshot
opposes 4 birds.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: imitation letters: A: to right of Heracles' waist: (χ)ιει. To right
of his face: (.)(.)(.)(.)(.)χ. B: between birds and Iolaus: χ-χελ(.){2}. Below
this inscription: five(?) strokes. Also some scattered letters, e.g. a chi.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so the Rouen cat. {2} uncertain reading.
CAVI Number: 6374
AVI Bibliography: Pottier (1897–1922), ...., pl. 87. — Haspels (1936), 238/132. —
Flacelière–Devambez (1966), pl. 7. — Brommer (1973), 208/8. — Rouen Musée Dép.
(1982), 222/90.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
