Attributed To: MENON by SIGNATURE PSIAX by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA BETWEEN LETO AND ARTEMIS (ALL NAMED) B: YOUTH IN CHLAMYS, THRACIAN BOOTS AND CAP (ALOPEKIS) WITH SPEARS LEADING HORSES (ALL NAMED ?)
Last Recorded Collection: Philadelphia (PA), University of Pennsylvania: 5399
Publication Record: Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 172 (JUNE 1999) 27 (COLOUR OF PART) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 292 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 7.3 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 9.4 Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): II, 203 Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 212, FIG.162 (DRAWING OF A) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 64, FIGS.22-23 (A, OF) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.318 (A) The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania: 11 (1920) PL. FACING 13 (B) The Museum Journal, University of Pennsylvania: 5 (1914) 32-36, FIGS.17-20 (A, B, DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
CAVI Collection: Philadelphia, University Museum 5399.
CAVI Lemma: RF amphora. From Vulci. Psiax. Menon, potter. Last quarter sixth. 520-510.
CAVI Subject: A: Apollo with a lyre between Leto and Artemis. B: a youth leading two
horses.
CAVI Inscriptions: All inscriptions Grr.: A: to Leto's lower right: Λετος̣. Similar:
Απολ[λ]ονος. Similar: Αρτεμιδος. B: to left of the horses: Σκονθον{1}. To the
horses' lower right: Πι[..]ι̣ο(.). To left of the warrior's face: Πυρες{2}. On
the foot profile, also Gr.: Μενον εποιεσεν{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Σκονθον is my reading; Σχονθον, Beazley in JHS, wrongly. No doubt
miswritten for Χσανθος (a horse name, see Immerwahr (1971) [[see especially CAVI
8076]]). The name of the other horse is not recoverable. {2} Πυρες: see Anth.
Pal. 13.13 and early examples cited in Immerwahr (1971); cf. LGPN ii. Probably
not Πυρ[ρ]ες, although that occurs in PA 12,497 (fourth cent.). For earlier
readings, see Robinson in AJA. {3} The incision is more deeply cut, which in
Immerwahr (1971) made me think of incision after firing and a different hand;
but see now AttScr (1990), 58 n. 6 and Threatte (1996), 260.
CAVI Comments: The signature is under side A, I think pretty well centered.
CAVI Number: 6808
AVI Bibliography: Bates (1905). — Furtwängler (1905), ii, 259. — Bates (1908), 435 f. — D.M.
Robinson (1908), 431ff. — Hall (1914), 31-37, figs. 17-20. — Beazley (1927), 67,
n. 23. — ARV[2] (1963), 7/3. — Immerwahr (1971), 55/1. — AttScr (1990), no. 313.
— Cohen (1991), 64, figs. 22-23. — Threatte (1996), 107 and 260.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
