Decoration: PHILOKTETES SEATED, ODYSSEUS SEATED, FIGURE, QUIVER AND BOW SUSPENDED FROM TREE
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, private, Herbert Cahn: HC1738
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 43 (2000) PL.10.8 Giudice, E. and Giudice, G. (eds.), Studi miscellanei di ceramografia Greca IV (Catania, 2018): PL.4.7 AT P.24 Latacz, J. et al., Homer, Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst (Munich, and Basel 2008): 395, NO.140 (COLOUR) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.325, PHILOKTETES 55A
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of RF cup. Euaion Painter. Third quarter fifth. Soon after 431 (Müller).
CAVI Subject: A: bearded head of one seated; wall of a cave, with a gorytos hanging from
it; bearded traveler seated(1) with a foot on a rocky ledge; at right, arm with
a hand touching the traveler's upper arm. The Int. and B are not mentioned.
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of the left man's beard, at a little distance: Φιλοκτε|τες{2} / . .
. . . . . / . .
CAVI Footnotes: {1} M. says standing; see his n. 12. {2} the inscription runs into the `wall'
of the cave and is therefore written in two lines.
CAVI Comments: Müller relates the vase to Euripides' Philoktetes of 431 B.C.: The left-hand
person is Philoktetes, the traveler must be Odysseus, his companion Diomedes.
This agrees only with Euripides' play, not with Aeschylus (where Odysseus is
alone) or Sophocles (where Neoptolemos is the main figure). The Euaion Painter
is usually dated in the second quarter of the fifth century, with some vases
dated 450-440 (see Müller, 127-28 and n. 16 for details), but M. believes that
the frs. are securely dated by Euripides' play post 431 B.C. - The name is now
complete (it was not in LIMC). Cahn will publish the whole vase. Mixed alphabet.
Ionic lambda and sigma.
CAVI Number: 2080
AVI Bibliography: M. Pipili, LIMC vii (1994), 382 Philoktetes 55a* (pl. 325) (incomplete). —
Müller (1996), 125-26 and n. 8, pl. 30,1 (part).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
