9017720, ATHENIAN, Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia, 42884
- Vase Number: 9017720
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
- Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
- Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
- Date: -525 to -475
- Decoration: Body: INTRODUCTION OF HERAKLES TO OLYMPOS, DIONYSOS, HERMES, ATHENA, ARES
- Current Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 42884
- Publication Record: Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 7164
- AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7421
- AVI Record Number: 7164
- CAVI Collection: Rome, Villa Giulia 42,884.
- CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. Unattributed. Date unclear.
- CAVI Subject: Introduction of Heracles to Olympus: Hermes, Athena, Dionysus, Heracles,
Ares.
- CAVI Inscriptions: To Hermes' right: hε^γμ(σ)^(λ){1}. Above Dionysus' head: Ιακχ(σ)ε^{2}. To
right of Heracles' back, facing him: (h)ερ^(α)κλες{3}.
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} the bracketed sigma is a four-stroke sigma lying on its back; the lambda
has the `Argive' form (not a real lambda). The caduceus and a hand intervene.
{2} the bracketed sigma resembles an upside down sideways sigma, but with soft
corners. The inscription runs into an arm. {3} the heta resembles a reversed nu,
the alpha is a triangle. A spear intervenes.
- CAVI Comments: Written by an illiterate: misshapen and misunderstood letters. Attic alphabet
so far as discernable.
- CAVI Number: 7164
- CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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