Decoration: A: ATHLETES WRESTLING (THESEUS) B: ATHLETES WITH STRIGILS, PICKS
Last Recorded Collection: Turin, Museo di Antichita: 4123
Publication Record: Annali dell'Istituto di Correspondenza Archeologica: 42 (1870) PLS.O-P Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 28.11, 1620 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 25.9 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 64.9, 468 Beck, F., Album of Greek Education (Sydney, 1975): PL.36.197A (A) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.36 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 75 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 155 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: TORINO, MUSEO DI ANTICHITA 2, III.I.3, III.I.4, FIGS.III.I.3.1, III.I.4.2, PLS.(1803,1804) 1.1-2, 2.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates Drougou, S., Der Attische Psykter (Würzburg, 1975): PL.12 (A) 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.60 (A) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 372, FIG.222 (B) Gardiner, N., Athletics of the Ancient World (Oxford, 1930): FIG.159 (A) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): I, 436-7 Hoppin, J.C., Euthymides and his fellows (Cambridge, 1917): 19, 22, PLS.4-5 Journal of Hellenic Studies: 35 (1915) 190-1, PLS.5-6 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.97, PALLANTIDAI 7 (A) Neer, R.T., Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting, The Craft of Democracy, ca.530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002): 160, FIGS.72-73 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Neils, J., The Youthful Deeds of Theseus (Rome, 1987): FIG.14 (A) Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 16 (1987) 81, PL.10.16 (DRAWING OF A) Patrucco, R., Lo Sport nella Grecia antica (Florence, 1972): 283, FIG.133 (A) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.367 (A) Poliakoff, M. B., Combat Sports in the Ancient World, Competition, Violence and Culture (Yale, 1987): 37, FIG.23 (A) Reschke, E., Die Ringer des Euthymides (Stuttgart, 1990): PLS.1-2 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Scheurleer, C.W., Grieksche keramiek (Rotterdam, 1936): PL.27, 76 (B) Schmidt, S. and Stähli, A. (eds.), Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer, Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum, Beiheft zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland V (Munich, 2012): 113, FIGS.1-2 (A, B) Schroder, B., Der Sport im Altertum (Berlin, 1927): PL.61 BOTTOM (B) Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 64, FIG.23 (A) Steiner, A., Reading Greek Vases (Cambridge, 2007): 152, FIGS.7.21-7.22 (A, B) Yalouris, N. et al., Athletics in Ancient Greece (Athens, 1977): 206, FIG.110 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF psykter. From Vulci. Euthymides. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: A: two youths wrestling. B: two young athletes with strigils.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: betweeen the legs of the left youth (Theseus): ευ γε, ναιχι. To right of
his head: Θεσευς. Below the right wrestler's face: Κλ[υτ]ος{1}. To right of the
right wrestler, curved and following the body, two-liner: Ευθυμιδες | εγραφσεν,
and between his legs: hο Πολ[λ]ιο. B: starting under the arm pit of the left
athlete: Ο̣[--7--]ορα[ς]{2}. To right of the right athlete, starting at his
face: Φαϋλ[λ]ος. Below the last inscription, between the athletes, three-liner,
not left-aligned: Ευθυμιδες | εγρα(φ)σεν | hο Π[ο]λ[λ]ιο.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Philippart, with Beazley agreeing. Beazley in CB iii, n. 2 accepts Κλυτος
as a companion of Theseus; cf. also AJA 54. But I thought there was room for 4-5
letters in the gap. Hoppin reports other suggestions: Κερκυον (but the second
letter is not an epsilon), Κλειτος, Κλυτιος (Klugmann). {2} My complement;
probably a name in -αγορας. Hoppin discusses Olympiodoros and Timagora. Beazley
in AJA 54 acepts Wolters' suggestion Ο[ρθαγ]ορα, which should be Ο̣[ρθαγ]ορα[ς].
CAVI Comments: Brommer discusses at length the different views concerning the identity of
Theseus' opponent on A. He cannot be Kerkyon who is always bearded. He concludes
that the scene is definitely mythological, but we do not know the opponent; for
the complement Klytos (who was the son of Pallas) is too short and no Klytios
(the name suggested by Klügmann) is known to have been in contact with Theseus.
If Brommer is right, we might as well accept my suggestion Κλ[υμεν]ος (see
below). Note that Lo Porto in CVA claimed that at least three letters are
missing in the gap. M. Scheller, MusHelv 38 (1981) 226-227 follows Hoppin in
taking ευ γε ναιχι with the signature, comparing the ως ουδεποτε Ευφρονιος.
There is a discussion of the `vulgär' meaning of ναιχι. For a list of
occurrences se Threatte (1996), 410-11. Threatte, ibid., 743, lists the form
Πλιο as am example of the omission of unaccented vowels. - Pl. 12 in Drougou
shows very clearly the first two lines of the signature on A (is the inscription
redrawn?); it starts out in oblique stoichedon and turns into regular stoichedon
at the mu in line 1; the ph. also shows clearly the inscription Θεσευς. Drougou
reads the name of Theseus' opponent as Klytos, not Klytios, following Beazley
who she says followed Philippart (1932–3), i, 9, whereas CVA Turin read Klytios.
She says there is no room for more letters. (This contradicts my suggestion
supra.) Klytos she says is a Palantid (Theseus fought the Pallantidae), and this
is the earliest mention of him. On B she reads Orthagoras (Ο[...]ΟΡΑ).
CAVI Number: 7810
AVI Bibliography: Hoppin (1915), 189 ff., figs. 1-3, pls. 5-6. — CB (1931–63), ii, 3, n.2, 5
and 7. — Philippart (1932–3), i, 9. — Beazley (1950), 317. — ARV[2] (1963),
28/11, 1620. — F.G. Lo Porto, CVA Turin 2, Italy 40 (1969), II I, 3-4, pl.
2,1-2. — Drougou (1975), 20/B 7, 92-93 and nn. 307-308, pl. 12 (A), side). —
Brommer (1979), 488-90, no. 3 (much bibl.). — Add.[2] (1989), 156. — AttScr
(1990), no. 377.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
