Decoration: Body: HERAKLES AND TRITON, BETWEEN OLD MAN AND WOMAN Shoulder Shoulder: JUDGEMENT OF PARIS, FLEEING (?), HERMES, ATHENA, HERA AND APHRODITE, ALL SEATED ON BLOCKS
Last Recorded Collection: Chicago (IL), Art Institute: 1889.15
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 673 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 164 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 148 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.381, MOMOS 2 (S, PART OF S) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.43, TRITON 9 (BD) Simon, E., Ausgewählte Schriften, I, Griechische Kunst (Mainz, 1998): 36, FIGS.4.1-2 (S, PART OF S) The Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies: 20 (1994) 1, 40, NO.21 (BD, PART OF S)
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Cerveteri. Leagros Group. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: Judgment of Paris. Body: Heracles and Triton.
CAVI Inscriptions: Body: above the scene, starting in the left-hand corner and going to
Heracles' arm: καλο[ς] Π[υ]θις. Under the foot, Gr.: ΠΥΛΑ ΙΙ{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} The upsilon V-shaped.
CAVI Comments: The name, without καλος, occurs on Toronto 963.59 (see Immerwahr (1982)).
Luce, AJA 26 (1922) 187/64 has the inscription wrong. - For the interpretation
of ΠΥ as a vase name and its difficulties, see Johnston (1979), 219 and nn.
Johnston interprets ΛΑ as an Aeginetan form, λακυθος.
