Abbreviations used on this page:

Boardman, ABFV = your textbook, Athenian Black Figure Vases: a handbook (1974), on reserve (NK4648 .B62 1974b; also available at bookstore.

Arias = Arias and Hirmer, A History of 1000 Years of Greek Vase Painting (1962), in Main Reference area (Main Ref NK4645 .A69).

Arias also = Arias and Hirmer, Tausend Jahre griechische Vasenkunst (1960), German edition of same book, on reserve (NK4645 .A696 1960).

Boardman = Early Greek vase painting : 11th-6th centuries BC : a handbook (1998), on reserve (NK4645 .B62 1998).

Richter = A Handbook of Greek Art (1987), one copy on reserve and second copy in Main Reference area (N5630 .R49 1987).

Robertson = A Shorter History of Greek Art (1981), on reserve (N5630 .R632).
 

Early Attic Black-figure Period (Corinthianizing Phase), 610-550 B.C.

Neck-amphora by Nessos Painter from Dipylon cemetery which functioned as grave marker, showing Herakles and Nessos, and Gorgon Medusa and her two Gorgon sisters; Boardman, ABFV fig. 5 (Athens, National Archaeological Museum no. 1002; Robertson fig. 46; and ARHI 4030 web site, under Greek Orientalizing Period; also see Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 300025; museum's web site under Pottery and Minor art collection; detail of Nessos scene).

Funerary skyphos-krater by Nessos Painter used as grave marker at Vari in Attica and showing Herakles freeing Prometheus, women with flowers, and animals (on lid); Boardman, ABFV fig. 6; see Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 350285; K. Schefold, Myth and Legend in Early Greek Art (1966), pl. 57a (detail of Herakles and Prometheus), shown below; P. Lemerle, "Chronique des fouilles et découvertes archéologiques en Grèce en 1939: Musées et collections: Musée National," Bulletin de correspondance hellénique 63 (1939) p. 287, pl.  51A (detail of stand), shown below.

Dinos (wine-container and prize vase) and stand by Gorgon Painter, showing Hermes, Athena, Perseus and Gorgons including Medusa; on back, two warriors fighting and their chariots (=? Herakles and Kyknos); and animal friezes; Boardman, ABFV fig. 11 (Paris, Louvre E 874; Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 300055; for images go to ARHI 4030 web site, under Greek Archaic Period).

Olpe (pitcher) by Gorgon Painter with lion and ox; G.M. Young, "Archaeology in Greece, 1936-1937," Journal of Hellenic Studies 57 (1937) p. 125 and pl. 6.2, shown below.
 
 

Dinos fragment by Sophilos (potter and painter), with funeral games of Patroklos; Boardman, ABFV fig. 26; Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 305075 (see Univ. of Pennsylvania web site).

Dinos and stand by Sophilos with wedding of Peleus and Thetis and animal friezes; Boardman, ABFV fig. 24; Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 350099 (London, British Museum no. 1971.11-1.1; D. Williams, "Sophilos in the British Museum," Greek Vases in the J. Paul Getty Museum vol. 1, 1983, pp. 8-34, see below for figs. 13, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32; discussion of its conservation; five views, and detail of Okeanos and Tethys).
 
 

Wedding of Peleus and Thetis (characters with names inscribed):

Peleus, Iris (Williams fig. 26), Dionysos (Williams fig. 27), Cheiron (Williams fig. 28), Zeus and Hera (Williams fig. 29), Poseidon and Amphitrite (Williams fig. 30), Muses, Ares and Aphrodite (Williams fig. 31), Muses (Williams figs. 31-32), Hermes and Apollo (Williams fig. 32), Athena and Artemis, Oceanus, Hephaistos.
 
 

'François vase', a volute krater (bowl for mixing wine with water) by Kleitias (painter) and Ergotimos (potter);  Boardman, ABFV fig. 46; Robertson fig. 47; (Florence 4209; link to page with images; Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 300000; and Univ. of Pennsylvania web site).

Foot:

Pygmies and cranes.

Front:

Peleus and boar hunt.

Funeral games of Patroklos.

Wedding of Peleus and Thetis: Thetis, Peleus, Dionysos, Kalliope and second Muse, Zeus and Hera.

Achilles' pursuit of Troilos: Achilles, Troilos, Priam.

Handles:

On outside, Artemis as Potnia Theron and Ajax with body of Achilles.

Back:

Ship approaching land and Theseus and Athenians dancing, with Ariadne and her nurse.

Centaurs and Lapiths, with Lapith Kaineus being pounded into ground.

Wedding of Peleus and Thetis continued: Three Fates and Themis (their mother).

Return of Hephaistos to Olympos: Hera, Zeus, Aphrodite, Dionysos, Hephaistos.

Both sides:

Animal frieze.

Stand (for display of sweet-meats) by Kleitias and Ergotimos, showing Gorgon's head; D. von Bothmer, Greek Vase Painting (Metropolitan Museum of Art 1987), 18 fig. 8, shown below; Richter fig. 444, shown below.

Dinos by Painter of Acropolis 606, with chariot and cavalry battles; Boardman, ABFV fig. 47; O. Tzahou-Alexandri, "A Vase-Painter as Dedicator on the Athenian Acropolis: A New View of the Painter of Acropolis 606," from D. Buitron-Oliver, New Perspectives in Early Greek Art (1991), color ill. p. 190, 202 fig. 12 and 204 fig. 17, all three shown below.
 

Column krater (bowl for mixing wine with water) by Lydos, with return of Hephaistos to Olympos in company of satyrs and maenads; Boardman, ABFV fig. 65; Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 310151; D. von Bothmer, Greek Vase Painting (Metropolitan Museum of Art 1987) ills. p. 21, shown below.

Neck-amphora (container) by Exekias with Ajax carrying dead Achilles, in main panel on both sides; and animal friezes (Munich no. 1470; link to page with images; see Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 310388).

Single-piece amphora by Exekias showing suicide of Ajax (front) and "youths in chariot" (back), Boulogne, Musee Communale, 558; see Boardman, ABFV fig. 101, ARHI 3000 web site, link to page with images, and link to vase on Beazley Archive Pottery database for views of back.

Eye-kylix (cup for drinking wine) by Exekias showing fights over corpse (exterior) and Dionysos in boat with pirates transformed into dolphins (interior); Boardman, ABFV fig. 104; Robertson fig. 96; Arias [interior and exterior] (Munich no. 2044; link to page with images; see Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 310403).

Archaic Attic Red-figure Period, 530-480 B.C.

Single-piece, bilingual amphora by Andokides Painter and Lysippides Painter, showing Athena, Herakles and Kerberos (front) and Dionysos, Maenad and three satyrs; link to page with images; Boardman, ABFV fig. 162 (back; Paris, Louvre no. F 204; for front and back, see Arias; Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 200011).

Calyx krater (bowl for mixing wine with water) by Euphronios (painter and potter or shop-owner?) showing Herakles and Antaios; Richter fig. 453 (Paris, Louvre G 103; link to page with images; see Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 200064).

Single-piece amphora by Euthymides (painter and potter) showing arming of Hektor in presence of his parents Priam and Hekabe (front) and revelers (back); Richter fig. 455 [side with revelers] (Munich no. 2307; see ARHI 3000 web site; Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 200160).

Pointed neck-amphora (wine container requiring a stand) by Kleophrades Painter, showing Dionysos, maenads and satyrs, and athletes; Richter fig. 460 (Munich no. 2344; link to page with images; Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 201659; a).

Hydria (water vase) by Kleophrades Painter showing episodes from destruction of Troy: departure of Aeneas, rape of Kassandra by lesser Ajax, and threatening of Priam by Neoptolemos, son of Achilles; Robertson fig. 102; Richter fig. 462 [detail of figures from shoulder] (Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale no. 2422; link to page with images; see Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 201724).

Amphora (Panathenaic shape) by Berlin Painter, with Herakles and stolen tripod on one side, and pursuing Apollo on second side; Robertson fig. 106; Beazley Archive Pottery Database, Vase Number 201816 (Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum 500; link to page with images).