Information on Diomedes/Aeneas vase image. Boston 97.368.
Boston 97.368 From Perseus. Diomedes and Aeneas
Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Summary: Side A: Achilles and Memnon.
Side B: Diomedes and Aeneas.
Ware: Attic Red Figure. Shape: Calyx krater
Painter: Name vase of the Tyszkiewicz Painter
Context: From Canino
Date: ca. 490 B.C. - 480 B.C.
Period: Late Archaic. Dimensions: H. 0.452 m., D. 0.513 m.
Primary Citation: ARV2, 290, 1.
Side B: combat between Diomedes and Aeneas. Diomedes advances from the left and wounds Aeneas with a spear. Aeneas has drawn his sword but falls, helpless. Diomedes wears a chitoniskos, a leather cuirass with scales, a Corinthian helmet but no greaves. Aeneas wears an Attic helmet, a cuirass with imbrications instead of scales, and a baldric with a scabbard. On the shoulder flaps of both heroes are stars (Diomedes' cuirass has only one star, however). Aeneas' sword is a long, single-edged weapon with a swan's head handle. To the left, Athena encourages Diomedes, and Aphrodite comes to rescue her son Aeneas on the right. Athena wears the same costume as on Side A, but less ornamented; Aphrodite wears a chiton, himation, and a stephane. The figures are labelled.
In the Iliad, Diomedes wounds Aeneas with a boulder rather than with a spear (Hom. Il. 5, 300).
Inscriptions:
Side B: ATHENAIA, DIOMEDES, AINEAS, APHRODITE ("Athena", "Diomedes", "Aeneas", "Aphrodite").
Collection History: Formerly in collection of Count Michael Tyszkiewicz.
Sources Used: Caskey & Beazley, 2, 13-21
(Beth McIntosh)