Decoration: A: AJAX AND ACHILLES PLAYING, BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, DEVICES, TRIPOD, DISCS B: DIONYSOS AND HERMES, GODDESS
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: BS1921.328
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BASEL, ANTIKENMUSEUM 1, 102, PLS.(186,187) 40.1-3, 41.1 View Whole CVA Plates Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 118, FIG.93 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.96, ACHILLEUS 391 (A) Metzger, H. (ed.), Eidolopoiia, Actes du Colloque sur les Problemes de l' Image dans le Monde Medit. Class. (Rome, 1985): SCHEFOLD. PL.2 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From Vulci. Unattributed; related to later Group E (CVA).
530-520 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: A: Ajax and Achilles playing a game. B: Dionysus between a woman and Hermes.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: blots and imitation letters: a horizontal row above the scene.
From the mouth of the hero at right issue six letters{1}. On the extreme left,
following the shoulder of the left hero: a row of imitation letters. Behind the
right hero: two blots, unclear whether intended for letters. - Under the foot,
Grr.: ligature pi-delta (or pi rho?) and internal ligature epsilon-rho. CVA also
mentions a Dip., which is not listed in Johnston (1979). See also Johnston's
comments in CVA.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the hero is either Ajax or Achilles.
CAVI Comments: Ex Durand and Pourtalès collections. - The inscriptions imitate sense
inscriptions by their positions: signature or kalos-name; spoken words; names of
heroes. They are in the tradition of Group E, Exekias and his followers.
CAVI Number: 2012
AVI Bibliography: Johnston (1979), 118/6D 2 and 125/3E 44. — J. Descoeudres, CVA Basel 1,
Switzerland 4 (1981), pl. 40,1-3 (bibl., mostly catalogues).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
