Attributed To: ANTIOPE GROUP by BEAZLEY LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND KERBEROS, ATHENA, OLD MAN WITH SCEPTRE (HADES), WOMAN WITH POLOS SEATED ON STOOL IN BUILDING (PERSEPHONE), NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: ARIADNE MOUNTING CHARIOT, DIONYSOS WITH VINE, WOMAN, PANTHER
Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 372
Publication Record: Angiolillo, S., Arte e cultura nell'Atene di Pisistrato e dei Pisistratidi (Bari, 1997): 138, FIG.76 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 368.107 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 162 Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.216 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 98 Fiorentini, G., Caltabiano, M., and Calderone, A. (eds.), Archeologia del Mediterraneo, Studi in onore di Ernesto de Miro (Rome, 2003): 135, FIG.5 (A) Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.23.93 (PART OF A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 851, NO.476 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: PL.221, HADES 137 (A) Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 245, APP.173 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Cerveteri. Leagros Group (Antiope Group I). Last quarter
sixth. 510-500.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Cerberus. B: Ariadne mounting the chariot of Dionysus.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: to right of Heracles' legs: νχδεο. To left of Hades' face:
νοεh(λ)χδι, retr.{1}. Above Cerberus' head: (ν)δχυ, retr.{2}. To right of Hades'
shoulder: (.)χασ, retr.{3}. Above Persephone: five letters, not legible in
Albizzati's photo.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the lambda is not retr.; the delta may be a rho. This last holds true of
all `deltas', whence perhaps Smith got the idea that these painters play with
the name of Nearchos, although he too reads νχδεο. {2} the nu is not retr. {3}
the first letter is a blob.
CAVI Number: 6989
AVI Bibliography: Albizzati (1929), 161-63, fig. 1106, pl. 50. — H.R.W. Smith, CVA San
Francisco 1, USA 10 (1943), 30. — ABV (1956), 368/107. — Para. (1971), 162. —
Add.[2] (1989), 98. — AttScr (1990), no. 447, fig. 93.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)