Decoration: A,B: AMAZONOMACHY, AMAZONS FIGHTING WARRIORS ON HORSEBACK
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: J971
Previous Collections:
Munich, Antikensammlungen: 2242
Publication Record: Bothmer, D. von, Amazons in Greek Art (Oxford, 1957): PL.56 (A, B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNICH, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN 11, 33-34, BEILAGE 6.1, PL.(2794) 25.1-6 View Whole CVA Plates Ellinghaus, C., Die Parthenonskulpturen, Der Bauschmuck eines öffentlichen Monumentes der demokratischen Gesellschaft Athens zur Zeit des Perikles, Techniken in der bildenden Kunst zur Tradierung von Aussagen (Hamburg, 2011): FIG.4 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 93, 117-118, 160, FIGS.11.9, 15.1A-B, 25.8 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: BF band cup. From Vulci. Unattributed{1}. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Handle zone: Amazonomachy: A: six Greek horsemen fighting five Amazons. B: a
similar scene.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: multi-figured-style nonsense inscriptions: A: 20 inscriptions,
or parts, preserved, all retr. Many begin with a retr. epsilon; lambda (or
upsilon) and sigma are also frequent; some letters deteriorate into imitation
letters. B: 18 similar inscriptions, none lost. The length of the inscriptions
varies between 8 and 2 letters.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Fellmann refers to Louvre F 72 (CVA, Louvre 9, III H e, pl. 80,1-7),
which is very similar also in the disposition of the inscriptions and may be by
the same hand; Munich 2240 and Munich 2241 too are similar; both often begin
with epsilon, which F. thinks recalls Sakonides (see CVA on the two vases).
CAVI Comments: Now cleaned; the old condition is in Bothmer.
CAVI Number: 5250
AVI Bibliography: Bothmer (1957), 82/121, pl. 56. — D. Williams (1977), 163 n. 19. — B.
Fellmann, CVA Munich 11, Germany 57 (1989), pl. 25,1-6, Beilage 6,1. —
Vierneisel–Kaeser (1990), figs. 25.8a-b (A, B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
