Decoration: A: HERAKLES (WITHOUT LION SKIN) WITH BOAR, AND EURYSTHEUS, IN PITHOS, BETWEEN ATHENA AND WOMAN, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: EXTISPICY, YOUTH WITH LIVER, WARRIORS, DEVICE, DOLPHIN, ARCHER
Last Recorded Collection: Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire: R291
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 270.52, 678 Burow, J., Der Antimenesmaler, Kerameus 7 (Mainz, 1989): PLS.103, 160H, NO.104 (A, B, SIDE) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 70 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BRUSSELS, MUSEES ROYAUX DU CINQUANTENAIRE 1, III.H.E.3, PL.(021) 8.1A.1B.1C View Whole CVA Plates Ducrey, P., Guerre et Guerriers dans la Grece Antique (Paris, 1985): 258 (PART) Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 753, FIG.216 (B) Lissarrague, F., L'Autre Guerrier, Archers, Peltastes, Cavaliers dans l'Imagerie Attique (Paris-Rome, 1990): 57, FIG.23 (DRAWING OF B) Van den Oever-Van Linden, C., Scenes uit het oude Hellas 525-425 voor Chr. (Leuven, 1988): 51, NO.21 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Eurystheus, between Athena and a woman. B: extispicy: boy
holds a liver before two warriors; at right, an archer.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: to left of Athena's lower body, not facing:
ευε(.)υε(.)πο(.)ε{1}. To her lower right, facing: ειλτελ(λ){2}. Between the
boar's rear end (on Heracles' shoulder) and Athena's face: ελτειε, retr. Between
Heracles' legs: ειλε. To right of the boar's head, downward to the pithos, and
to right of Eurystheus' head: ελειτ(ε)λει{3}. Higher up, to right of the boar:
ειγε{4}. Above the head of the woman at right: four letters{5}. Under the foot,
Gr.: ΣΜΙ.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the letters marked (.) appear to be dots. The inscription is distorted in
pl. 103,A; the end is very unclear. {2} the last letter is unclear, perhaps
epsilon miswritten? {3} (ε) is a rectangular blob. {4} distorted in the photo.
{5} too distorted to read.
CAVI Comments: Beazley in ABV 677/3 mentions vases with similar inscriptions: London B 333;
Boulogne 417; and this vase. T. Panofka and H. Philippart attempted to read
sense: see Beazley (1927), 83 n. 50. Burow 41 thinks the writing is not by the
Antimenes Painter, but I think it could be although it is very hasty. - Readings
from CVA and Beazley in JHS are: A: nonsense: ευειλειτειε. ειλτελ(π). ε(π)λειε.
ευειτ(ι)λει. ειλε. ειγε. ειλε.
CAVI Number: 2929
AVI Bibliography: F. Mayence, CVA Brussels 1, Belgium 1 (1926), III H e, pl. 8,1. — Beazley
(1927), 83/13 (not ill.). — ABV (1956), 270/52, *677/under no. 3 (mention), 678.
— Johnston (1979), 78/20A 31, fig. 2,r (facs.). — Verbanck-Piérard (1980), 37,
figs. 1-2 (A, B). — Add.[2] (1989), 70. — Burow (1989), 41, 43, 72-73, 91/104,
pls. 103 and 160,h.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
