Decoration: A: CART WITH AMPHORAE DRAWN BY MULES, DRAPED MEN WITH SPEARS, DRAPED YOUTH (RANSOM OF HEKTOR ?) (IKARIOS ?) B: DRAPED MEN, SOME WITH SPEARS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1979.618
Publication Record: Crouwel, J.H., Chariots and other Wheeled Vehicles in Iron Age Greece, Allard Pierson Series 9 (Amsterdam, 1992): PL.24.3 (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.141, IKARIOS I ADD.1 (A, B) Mediterranean Archaeology: 17 (2004) PL.11 (A, B) Revue Archeologique: (1989) 1, 5, 7-8, FIGS.1-5 (INCLUDING PARTS)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF amphora. Painter of Munich 1379 (Princeton Group). Third
quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A: mule cart with amphorae; driver; leader; behind the cart, two males with
spears, facing each other. B: in the center, a bearded man touches the chin of a
larger bearded man in supplication; on either side, two bearded men; all but the
suppliant carry spears.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense, deviating into imitation letters, especially on B: A: to left of
the driver's head: εω(ο)(.)(.)[--]{1}. Below the cart: two letters. At the
right-hand margin: nine letters preserved, incomplete at end. B: nine nonsense
inscriptions, six of them between the figures, three near the heads of three
figures at left. The six leftmost (four between the figures, two above the
heads) begin with epsilon and are all retr.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the second letter is not a real omega; perhaps a miswritten pi?
CAVI Comments: Brownlee 3-4 and n. 5 mentions connections with other vases in the Princeton
Group and with the Painter of Berlin 1686. Beazley in AJA 33 (1929) had assigned
six vases to a group on the basis of nonsense inscriptions. Boardman speculated
that some of these may be early work by the Painter of Berlin 1686 (CVA, Great
Britain 14, p. 19). For the inscription with `omega' see RA, fig. 5. For
nonsense inscriptions beginning with epsilon, see Fellmann in CVA, Munich 11, on
the band cups 2240, 2241, 2242. - Brownlee interprets B as a parody of Hector's
Ransom (without the body).
CAVI Number: 2827
AVI Bibliography: Brownlee (1989), 3-21.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
