Decoration: Body: HERAKLES (NAMED) AND THE LION, SIREN, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS Shoulder: LIONS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: CP1968
Previous Collections:
New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: CP1729
New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 74.51.1331
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 314 Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.6.27 Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 80 (1965) 102, FIG.26 PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 1 (DRAWING OF PART OF BD)
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Cyprus. Unattributed. Second quarter sixth. 570-560.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: two lions facing. Body: Heracles and the Lion; two birds.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: above the left lion's back: λεολεσ and λσ, retr.{1}. To left of his
buttocks: χοιχσλσ̣, retr. Between his legs: χασχ̣ι̣ε̣α̣ο̣, complete. Between the
lions' foreheads: Καρπος, retr. Between the lions: χιλεσλχιχ, retr. Above the
right lion's tail: νεσλ, retr. Between his legs: λχσα̣(.)ει(?). Body: to left of
the scene: νει(.)χσ̣χι. Above Heracles' head: hερα[κ]λες, retr.{2}. To right of
the lion's face: λεο̣νγ̣ḥεο̣ν, complete. Above the lion's tail, to right of a
bird: (.)νιλι. Within the loop of the lion's tail: λει̣λι, complete{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the first and seventh letters resemble upsilons. {2} the first three
letters are upside down. {3} letters marked (.) are misshapen.
CAVI Comments: = C.P. 1968. Myres and Payne wrongly thought the inscriptions Corinthian.
Karpos perhaps a kalos-name with kalos omitted, but it would be very early. The
name occurs, e.g., in IG II(2) 11,824 and later; see LGPN ii. Some of the
nonsense inscriptions play with the word for lion (mock inscriptions). See
Immerwahr (1971), loc. cit.
