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15555, ATHENIAN, Eleusis, Archaeological Museum, Eleusis, Archaeological Museum, 1466

  • Vase Number: 15555
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: LEBES
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATTICA, ELEUSIS
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Decoration: AGRICULTURE, YOUTHS, ONE WITH PICK, ONE PLOUGHING (?) MAN WITH SACK, MULE OR OX
    Body 1: DRAPED FIGURE, VINE
    Body 2: CAPTURE OF SILENOS, MIDAS (?) SEATED, HERALD, DRAPED MAN WITH SPEAR
  • Current Collection: Eleusis, Archaeological Museum: 1231
  • Previous Collections:
    • Eleusis, Archaeological Museum: 1466
  • Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 31 (1988), PL.18.2 (PART)
    Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 56 (1941), 38, FIG.2
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.571, MIDAS 35 (BD2)
    Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 22 (1897), PL.13 (DRAWING)
    Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 24 (1899), 340, FIG.3 (B)
    Revue Archeologique: 25 (1946), 213, FIG.1
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=3610
  • AVI Record Number: 3432
  • LIMC ID: 6162
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73fae1a8301ba-d
  • CAVI Collection: Eleusis 1231.
  • CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF strainer{1}. From Eleusis. Unattributed{2}. Last quarter sixth{3}.
  • CAVI Subject: Shoulder: lower part of two clothed figures; branch; palmette. Body: A: Capture of Silenus: Midas seated; herald (not Hermes, Brommer, but see below); a naked satyr, chained, looks back; man with a spear and two chains{4}. B: parts of three males. Bulle identifies B as a ploughing scene (see below).
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: seven imitation inscriptions, with many tau's and upsilon's. B: three imitation inscriptions are preserved.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} not in Beazley. Circle of the potter Nikosthenes (Bulle). {2} `Siebgefäss'. {3} Bea. Arch.: 575-525. {4} the figure behind Silenus is a hunter; that in front is considered to be Hermes by Miller, after Bulle (he carries a caduceus of sorts); Brommer calls him a herald.
  • CAVI Comments: Bea. Arch. db gives a third decorated area (really B): agriculture: youths, one with pick, one ploughing(?), man with sack, mule or ox.
  • CAVI Number: 3432
  • AVI Bibliography: BADB 15,555. — Bulle (1897), 387-404, pl. 13 (dr. by Guilleron). — R. Zahn (1899), 399. — Brommer (1941), 39, 41, 42/I2, fig. 2 (bibl.). — Fradisse (1946), 213, fig. 1. — M. Miller (1988), 80 and n. 6, pl. 18,2 (part of A).
  • 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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