CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Delos Painter. Last quarter sixth. Ca. 520 (Berger).
CAVI Subject: Int.: satyr running with a drinking horn. A: Heracles taming the Cretan bull.
B: hoplite defeating a bearded (moustachioed!) Scythian archer.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Gr.: above Heracles' head and above bull, irregularly spaced:
hερ^ακλ^ε^ς{1}. B: Gr.: around the archer: Σεραγυε{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Heracles' head and the bull's horn intervene. {2} or, more likely,
Σεραγυε[ς].
CAVI Comments: Ex Swiss Private. - The inscriptions are written with a very fine point, cf.
Philadelphia 5399, by Psiax, CAVI 6808. CVA insists that the archer is bearded
and Schauenburg shows that he is Scythian, not Persian; he reads Serague
feminine as a slur. But final sigma is often omitted, see Threatte (1980), 640
and ii. 778. The same name (without final sigma) occurs for a male archer on
London E 253, ARV[2] 35/2, which is Euergidean [[CAVI 4537]].
CAVI Number: 2003
AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 172/4, 1631. — Berger (1983), 109 and n. 10, pl. 22,1 (A). —
V. Slehoferova, CVA Basel 2, Switzerland 6 (1984), pls. 9,1-5, 33,4,8, 38,10,
Beilage 2,6, p. 25 (facs.) (bibl.). — Add.[2] (1989), 184. — Threatte (1996),
185.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
