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
Previous Collections:
Hever, private, Ravestein Collection
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)
