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)
