320383, ATHENIAN, Berlin, Antikensammlung, F1686

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Vase Number: 320383
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE B
Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
Date: -550 to -500
Attributed To: BERLIN 1686, P OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: SACRIFICE TO ATHENA, WOMAN WITH SPRIGS (PRIESTESS ?), YOUTHS AND MAN IN CHITONISKOI, LEADING BULL TO ALTAR
B: DRAPED YOUTH AND DRAPED MEN, PLAYING PIPES AND KITHARAI
Current Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: F1686
Publication Record: Backe-Dahmen, A. et al., Greek Vases, Gods, Heroes and Mortals (London and Berlin, 2010): 104-105, NO.53 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF B)
Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 296.4
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 128
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 77
Chiarini, S., The So-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases. Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 75, FIG.14 (COLOUR OF B)
Connelly, J.B., Portrait of a Priestess, Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton and Oxford, 2007): PL.12, 186, FIG.6.14 (COLOUR OF A, A)
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIKENSAMMLUNG 14, 31, 32, 33, 34, BEILAGE 2.1, PLS.(4564,4566,4614) 8.1, 10.1-2, 58.2 View Whole CVA Plates
Ellinghaus, C., Die Parthenonskulpturen, Der Bauschmuck eines öffentlichen Monumentes der demokratischen Gesellschaft Athens zur Zeit des Perikles, Techniken in der bildenden Kunst zur Tradierung von Aussagen (Hamburg, 2011): FIG.167 (B)
Fantham, E. et al., Women in the Classical World, Image and Text (New York, 1994): 94, FIG.3.10 (A)
Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 685, FIG.8 (A, B)
Grassinger, D. et al. (eds.), Die Rückkehr der Götter, Berlins verborgener Olymp (Berlin, 2008): 308, 326-328 (COLOUR OF A, B, AND PARTS OF B)
Harlow, M. and Nosch, M-L. (eds.), Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress: An Interdisciplinary Anthology (Oxford, 2014): 100, FIG.5.2 (COLOUR OF B)
Kaltsas, N. and Shapiro, A., Worshiping Women, Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens (Athens and New York, 2008): 188, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF A)
Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.2.2-3 (A, B)
Marconi, E. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture (Oxford, 2015): 336, FIG.14.1A-B (A AND B)
Metropolitan Museum Journal: 42 (2007) FIGS.17-18 (A, B)
Meyer, M., Athena, Göttin von Athen. Kult und Mythos auf der Akropolis bis in klassische Zeit, Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 16 (Vienna, 2017): 616, FIGS.241-242 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
Miller, M.C., Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC, A study in cultural receptivity (Cambridge, 1997): PL.78 (B)
Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 55, FIG.34 (A, B)
Neils, J., The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge, 2001): 147, FIG.109 (B)
Schollmeyer, P., Einführung in die antike Ikonographie (Darmstadt, 2012): 63, FIG.14 (A)
Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.9C-D (A, B)
Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: I, PL.16.GR106 (PART OF A)
Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: III, PL.39.77 (A)
West, M.L., Ancient Greek Music (Oxford, 1992): PL.5 (B)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2354
AVI Record Number: 2208
LIMC ID: 42415
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-75fcf4f976688-8
CAVI Collection: Berlin 1686.
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Painter of Berlin 1686. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Feast of Athena: A: sacrifice of a cow at an altar of Athena: Athena and her priestess; man and two youths leading a cow. B: two cithara players; two flute players; all bearded.
CAVI Inscriptions: B: nonsense: to lower right of each figure: χειοχειοσειοχεισο{1}. χεο(ρ)ειογσιο(ρ)ει(ο){2}. (ρ)ειο v.οχειο(γ)ειολειοι{3}. χειοχοι(.)(γ)(.)οιο(χ)ειο{4}. Above heads of flautists: χπιο(.)hεο v. (.)ο{5}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the last letter may be theta with a horizontal bar. {2} the rhos perhaps alphas; the last letter smeared. {3} rho perhaps alpha; gamma near-Ionic. {4} not all letters clear; gamma Ionic. chi = `Argive' lambda. {5} the end unclear; first (.) a dot; the second (.) = .
CAVI Comments: Berlin East. Small letters. The inscriptions resemble ειοχεοχε: see Berlin 1697. Curious that A has no inscriptions.
CAVI Number: 2208
AVI Bibliography: Photo. — Furtwängler (1885), no. 1686. — ABV (1956), 296/4. — Para. (1971), 128. — Böhr (1982), pl. 89. — Add.[2] (1989), 77 (bibl.). — Shapiro (1989), 30, pl. 9,c-d. — Shapiro (1992), 54-55, fig. 34,a-b (A, B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413393
Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975

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