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.
