Decoration: Body: HERAKLES AND KYKNOS, FALLING WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, ARES, ATHENA, HERMES SEATED ON STOOL (ALL NAMED) Shoulder: APOLLO, WARRIOR FALLEN, CHARIOTS, CHARIOTEER FALLING, NEOPTOLEMOS WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, ATHENA, DEVICE, THUNDERBOLT WITH ROSETTE (ALL NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: BS498
Previous Collections:
Switzerland, private
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 119.35BIS Burow, J., Der Antimenesmaler, Kerameus 7 (Mainz, 1989): PLS.128A, C, 129A-B, NO.131 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 70 Descoeudres, J-P. (ed.), Eumousia, Ceramic and Iconographic Studies in Honour of Alexander Cambitoglou (Sydney, 1990): PL.10.1-2 (S) Kurtz, D. (ed.), Essays in Classical Archaeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou 1977-2007 (Oxford, 2008): 93, FIG.2 (PARTS OF SH) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 108, FIG.63 (PARTS OF S) Snodgrass, A.M., An Archaeology of Greece, the present State and Future Scope of a Discipline (London, 1987): 143, FIGS.37-38(5) Zardini, F., The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos, A Study in Greek Vase-Painting and Literature (Verona, 2009): 340-341, FIG.23 (BD)
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: ARISTEIA OF NEOPTOLEMOS (LITTLE ILIAD): APOLLO STRIDING TO RIGHT,
THREATENING WITH HIS BOW TO PROTECT HELICAON; HELICAON (SON OF ANTENOR AND
SON-IN-LAW OF PRIAM) LYING DEAD TO LEFT (KILLED BY NEOPTOLEMOS); CHARIOT TO
LEFT, WITH CHARIOTEER PIERCED BY NEOPTOLEMOS' SPEAR; EURYPYLOS (SON OF TELEPHOS
OF PERGAMUM AND NEPHERW OF PRIAM) DEAD ON GROUND TO LEFT (ALSO KILLED BY N.);
CHARIOT OF ATHENA TO LEFT; ATHENA RUNNING TO LEFT (TO SUPPORT NEOPTOLEMOS).
BODY: A: HERACLES AND CYCNUS, WITH ARES AT RIGHT. B: ZEUS SEATED BETWEEN HERMES
AND ATHENA.
CAVI Inscriptions: SHOULDER: TO RIGHT OF APOLLO'S BOW, HORIZONTAL: Απολλον. ABOVE THE BODY OF
THE DEAD HELICAON, BEARING UPWARD: H(ε)λικαον, RETR.{1}. CHARIOTEER BEING KILLED
BY NEOPTOLEMOS: Ιο[--]ς{2}. BEHIND N.'S BACK, AT SHOULDER HEIGHT, STARTING
HORIZONTAL, THE LAST FIVE LETTERS BENDING DOWN AND INTERRUPTED BY THE HORSES'
LEGS OF HIS CHARIOT: Nεο{π}πτολε(μ){ο}ος{3}. ABOVE THE DEAD EURYPYLOS,
DIAGONALLY UPWARD: Ευρυπυλος, RETR.{4}. BODY: A: TO RIGHT OF HERACLES' FACE,
BEARING UPWARD: Hερακλεες. BELOW ARES' LEFT SHOULDER, DIAGONALLY DOWNWARD: Αρες.
B: ABOVE THE SEATED HERMES' HEAD, DOWNWARD: Hερμ(ε){ε}ς{5}. TO LEFT OF ATHENA'S
LOWER BODY (SHE FACES RIGHT), DIAGONALLY DOWNWARD AND FACING HER: Αθεναα, RETR.
[[SEE CAVI 7512]].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE EPSILON UNCLEAR IN THE PH. {2} SO BUROW 42; NOT CLEAR IN PH. {3} MY
READING FROM THE PHOTO.: BUROW READS Nεοππτολεμος AND SAYS THAT THE LAST THREE
LETTERS ARE TO THE RIGHT OF THE HORSES' LEGS. BUT I SEE A TRACE OF AN EXTRA
LETTER TO THE LEFT OF THE LEGS (THAT WOULD BE THE MU) AND TWO O'S AND A SIGMA TO
THE RIGHT. {4} BUROW'S READING. {5} THE SECOND EPSILON IS ONLY A TRACE. ODD THAT
THE INSCRIPTION LOOKS IN THE PH. AS IF WRITTEN IN A RESTORED AREA.
CAVI Comments: EX SWISS, PRIVATE. - THE SHOULDER SCENE IS FROM THE LITTLE ILIAD. IT WAS NOT
PREVIOUSLY KNOWN THAT NEOPTOLEMOS SLEW HELIKAON (SON OF ANTENOR, SON-IN-LAW OF
PRIAM) AND THAT APOLLO TERMINATED HIS ARISTEIA. WüRZBURG 309 (ABV 268/28) PART A
REPLICA AND SHOWS THE SAME SCENE. - DECORATION FRONT AND BACK IS UNUSUAL AND
SIMILAR TO VILLA GIULIA 3556. THE WRITING SEEMS COMPATIBLE WITH THE ANTIMENES
PAINTER ELSEWHERE.
CAVI Number: 2007
AVI Bibliography: BADB 45,078. — PARA. (1971), 119/35 BIS. — SNODGRASS (1987), 143, FIGS.
37-38(5). — ADD.[2] (1989), 70. — BUROW (1989), 42, 62, 94/131, PLS. 128,A,C AND
129,A,B. — SHAPIRO (1990), 83FF., AND N. 2 (BIBL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
