207611, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1772,0320.423
- Vase Number: 207611
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: RED-FIGURE
- Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
- Date: -475 to -425
- Inscriptions: CHARMIDES
Kalos/Kale: CHARMIDES KALOS
Named: GERAS - Attributed To: CHARMIDES P by BEAZLEY
- Decoration: A: HERAKLES PURSUING GERAS (OLD MAN, NAMED)
B: DRAPED YOUTH LEANING ON STAFF - Current Collection: London, British Museum: E290
- Previous Collections:
- Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1571
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 653.1
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 276
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 5, III.Ic.4, PL.(298) 48.2A-B View Whole CVA Plates
Grmek, M., and Gourevitch, D., Les maladies dans l'art antique (1998): 157, FIG.108 (PART OF A)
Huf, L., Frauen jenseits der Konvention: Alterszüge, Tätowierungen und afrikanische Physiognomien im Frauenbild attischer Vasen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Munich, 2018): FIGS.9.1-3 (COLOUR OF A AND PARTS OF A)
Jenkins, I. et al., Defining Beauty: The Body in ancient Greece (London, 2015): 221 RIGHT, UNNUMBERED (COLOUR OF A)
Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 859, NO.628 (A)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.100, GERAS 1 (A)
Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 234, APP.129 (COLOUR OF A)
Richlin, A. (ed.), Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (Oxford, 1992): 67, FIG.3.7 (B)
Sengoku-Haga, K., Jenkins, I., et al., The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece from the British Museum (Osaka, 2011): 183, NO.124 (COLOUR OF A)
Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 91, FIG.45 (A) - AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4725
- AVI Record Number: 4553
- LIMC ID: 28988
- LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-753e7f8d528d6-2
- British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1772-0320-423
- CAVI Collection: London E 290.
- CAVI Lemma: RF Nolan amphora Charmides Painter. Second quarter fifth.
- CAVI Subject: A: Heracles driving off Old Age. B: a draped youth leaning on his stick.
- CAVI Inscriptions: A: To right of Old Age's head: Γερ(α)ς. Below: Χ(α)ρμιδες κ(α)λος.
- CAVI Comments: Ex Hamilton. Geras is inscribed also on Louvre G 234, q.v. The alphas lack
the cross stroke; see London E 291.
- CAVI Number: 4553
- AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7616b. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 213. — H.B.
Walters and E.J. Forsdyke, CVA London 5, Great Britain 7 (1930), III I c, pl.
48,1a-b. — Beazley (1949–51), 18-20. — Brommer (1952), 60, fig. 2. — ARV[2]
(1963), 653/1. — LIMC iv (1988), 181, Geras 1. — Add.[2] (1989), 276. — Shapiro
(1993), 239/37, 91, fig. 45 (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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