Radocsay Dénes - Gerevich Lászlóné szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 31. (Budapest,1968)

BOTHMER, DIETRICH von: An Amphora'by Exekias

a hoplite, armed with a spear, a highcrested helmet, around shield, a metal cuirass, and greaves, bids farewell to a woman and a youth. A second woman stands in front of the horses. There are no inscriptions, and the identity of the heroes therefore eludes us, but all representations of war-chariots in the sixth and fifth century are, of course, mythological, since chariots were no longer used in combat in those centuries. Other anonymous war chariots by Exekias occur on the neckamphora in Boston,

8 and on two panelamphorae in Orvieto;

9 the chariot of Athena is known from two vases by Exekias;

30 that of Achilles is shown on Dr. Cahn's fragments. Once, on the reverse of an amphora in the Louvre,

11 the chariot may be a racing chariot, and on three other vases, an amphora in Boulogne,

12 the neck-amphora in New York,

13 and the pyxis in Markopoulo, the chariot should be a bridal chariot. Lastly, the funerary plaques in Berlin and Athens: here the chariots are part of the cortege. Horses as such are a favorite subject of Exekias, and, as Miss Mary Moore has demonstrated in an article soon to be published in AJA, Exekias lavishes great care on his renditions of horses, carefully distinguishing between horses meant for riding and horses that pull a chariot. Her studies have produced useful criteria for a relative chronology of those vases by Exekias in which horses appear, and according to her investigation the amphora in Budapest goes with two of the amphorae in Orvieto and the one in the Louvre

14 and with 8 ABV p. 144, no. 4. s ABV p. 144, no. 10 and p. 145, no. 11. 10 ABV p. 145, nos. 11 and 19. 11 ABV p. 145, no. 12. 12 ABV p. 145, no. 18. 13 ABV p. 144, no. 3. " ABV pp. 144—145, nos. 10—12. 12/a Amphora by Exekias, obverse. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts