Decoration: A: EROTIC, DRAPED YOUTH WITH SPEAR AND MAN BETWEEN DRAPED MEN, DOG B: EROTIC, YOUTH AND MAN WITH SPEAR BETWEEN DRAPED MEN WITH SPEARS, DOGS Shoulder: HERAKLES AND THE LION, HORSEMEN, MEN AND YOUTHS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), private
Previous Collections:
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
London, market, Sotheby's
Publication Record: Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987): 179, FIG.3B Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 127, FIG.78 (UH) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 51 (14-15.3.1975), PL.23, NO.123 (A, B, S, UNDER HANDLE) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 6 (A, B, UH, PART OF SH) Schnapp, A., Le chasseur et la cite, Chasse et erotique dans la Grece ancienne (Paris, 1997): 251, NO.183(A, B) Sotheby, sale catalogue: 13-14.7.1981, 108-109, NO.244 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 45-46, PLS.2.4, 3.4 (B, UH)
CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. UNATTRIBUTED; BOTKIN CLASS{1}. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. CA. 540
(CAHN).
CAVI Subject: NECK: A, B, EACH: HERACLES AND THE LION, BETWEEN NUMEROUS FIGURES. BODY:
LOVE-MAKING: A: BEARDED MAN STROKING A YOUTH (ορχιπεδιζων) BETWEEN TWO MEN; DOG.
A SIMILAR PAIR IS EMBRACING BETWEEN TWO MEN; TWO DOGS.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: NECK: A AND B: NUMEROUS SHORT NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS. TEXT GIVES:
εν. κεμ. κκμ. ικευ. BODY: A: TO LEFT OF (BEHIND) THE LOVER'S HEAD: εκευνοι{2}.
B: TO RIGHT OF (BEHIND) THE YOUTH'S HEAD: εκεν. UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: SIX
PARALLEL LINES{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} WORKSHOP OF THE PHRYNOS PAINTER. {2} SO AUKTION'S TEXT; THE PHOTO SEEMS
TO SHOW SOMETHING DIFFERENT BUT THE LETTERS ARE TOO SMALL TO BE SURE. {3} SEE
JOHNSTON (1979).
CAVI Number: 2095
AVI Bibliography: M&M-AUCTION (1975), PL. 23/123. — JOHNSTON (1979), 30 AND 207.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
