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203217, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco, MNB166

  • Vase Number: 203217
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, CERVETERI
  • Date: -525 to -475
  • Inscriptions: EUPHRONIOS
    Named: THESEUS, TRITO[N], ATHENAIS, AMPH[ITRI]TE, SKIRON, PROKROUSTES, KERKYON
    Signature: EUPHRO[NIOSE]POIESEN
  • Attributed To: EUPHRONIOS by SIGNATURE
    ONESIMOS by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A,B: DEEDS OF THESEUS, SKIRON, PROKRUSTES, KERKYON, THE BULL, TREES WITH SWORDS AND CLOTHES SUSPENDED, ROCK, BASIN, HATS SUSPENDED
    I: TRITON CARRYING THESEUS, ATHENA WITH OWL, AMPHITRITE SEATED WITH WREATH (ALL NAMED), DOLPHINS
  • Current Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: PD321
  • Previous Collections:
    • Paris, Musée du Louvre: MNB166
    • Paris, Musée du Louvre: G104
  • Publication Record: Annales d'histoire et d'Art et archeologie, Universite de Bruxelles: 13 (1991) 14, FIG.6 (DRAWING OF PART OF B)
    Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1982, 293, FIG.3 (I)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 318.1, 1645, 313
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 214.10
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 168.38
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 358
    Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): V, PL.1
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.223 (I,A)
    Brommer, F., Theseus (Darmstadt, 1982): PL.22 (I), 16, FIG.2 (DRAWING OF B)
    Buitron-Oliver, D. (ed.), New Perspectives in Early Greek Art (Hanover and London, 1991): 128, FIG.7 (I)
    Bulletin du Musee National de Varsovie: 13 (1972) 4, FIG.3 (I)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 106
    Buschor, E., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1914): 165
    Böhm, S., Korinthische Figurenvasen: Düfte, Gaben und Symbole (Regensburg, 2014): FIG.1065 (I)
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIGS.237-238, 244 (A, B, I)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 214
    Coulson, W.D.E. et al. (eds.), The Archaeology of Athens and Attica under the Democracy (Oxford, 1994): 125, FIG.2 (I)
    Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 67, FIG.48, 142, FIG.114 (A, B, I)
    Etudes de Lettres: 1983 (4) 41, FIG.4 (I)
    Francis, E.D., Vickers, M. (ed.), Image and Idea in Fifth-Century Greece (London, 1990): FIG.25 (DRAWING OF I)
    Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): 141, PL.5
    Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PLS.5, 141
    Gaia. Revue interdisciplinaire sur la Grece archaique: 16 (2013) 237, FIG.1 (PART OF A)
    Garland, R., Introducing New Gods (London, 1991): PL22 (I)
    Geroulanos, S. and Bridler, R., Trauma, Wund-Entstehung und Wund-Pflege im antiken Griechenland (Mainz, 1994): FIG.40 (COLOUR OF A)
    Heilmeyer, W-D. and Giuliani, L. (eds.), Euphronios, der Maler: eine Ausstellung in der Sonderausstellungshalle der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin-Dahlem, 20.3. - 26.5.1991 (Milan, 1991): 230-232, NO.55 (COLOUR OF A, B AND I)
    Henle, J., Greek Myths: a Vase Painter's Notebook (Indiana, 1973): 84, FIG.41 (I)
    Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): I, 399
    Hurwit, J.M., The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 (Ithaca, 1985): 315, FIG.137 (A,B)
    Jacobsthal, P., Theseus auf dem meeresgrunde. Ein beitrag zur geschichte der griechischen malerei (Leipzig, 1911): PL.1.1 (I)
    Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Wien: 58 (1988) 51-52, FIG.1 (I)
    Journal of Hellenic Studies: 18 (1898) PL.14 (I)
    Journal of Hellenic Studies: 35 (1915) PL.4 (A-B)
    Klein, W., Euphronios (1886): 182, 194-5
    Langlotz, E., Griechische Vasenbilder (Heidelberg, 1922): PL.15
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.590, AMPHITRITE 75 (I)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PLS.624-625, THESEUS 36 (I, A, B)
    Lonis, R., Guerre et religion en Grece a l'epoque classique (Paris, 1979): FIG.5 (I)
    Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: 26 (1969) 31, FIG.11 (I)
    Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 66, FIG.27 (I)
    Meyer, H., Medeia und die Peliaden (Rome, 1980): PL.25.1 (I)
    Monuments grecs: 1872, PL.1-2
    Morford, M. et al., Classical Mythology, International Ninth Edition (Oxford, 2011): 598 (I)
    Morris, S.P., Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art (Princeton, 1992): FIG.56 (I)
    Museum Helveticum: 48 (1991) PL.2 (I)
    Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 526, FIG.373 (DRAWING OF A)
    Neer, R.T., Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting, The Craft of Democracy, ca.530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002): 156-157, FIGS.69-71 (I, A, B)
    Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 180, FIG.6 (I)
    Pasquier, A., Euphronios: genie de la peinture grecque, Archeologia hors serie numero 1 (Dijon, 1991): 12-13 (COLOUR OF I, A, AND B)
    Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.398
    Pottier, E., Vases antiques du Louvre (Paris, 1897-1922): PL.102-4
    Robertson, C., A Shorter History of Greek Art (Cambridge, 1981): 68, FIG.98 (I)
    Robertson, C., History of Greek Art (Cambridge, 1975): PL.75A (I)
    Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 49, FIGS.34-35 (PART OF I)
    Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 238-239, FIGS.288-290 (A, B, I)
    Scheurleer, C.W., Grieksche keramiek (Rotterdam, 1936): PL.29.80 (A)
    Seki, T., Untersuchung zum Verhaltnis von Gefässform und Malerei attischer Schalen (Berlin, 1985): PLS.44.1, 45.1 (I, UNDERNEATH)
    Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 86, FIG.33 (I)
    Smith, T.J. and Plantzos, D. (eds.), A Companion to Greek Art (Malden, 2012): II, 429, FIG.21.3 (I)
    Stewart, A., Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 1997): 140-141 (A, B, I)
    Swindler, M.H., Ancient painting: from the earliest times to the period of Christian art (New Haven, 1929): PL.9, FIG.300 (I, B)
    Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 145, FIG.120 (COLOUR OF I)
    Torelli, M., The Etruscans (Milan, 2000): 151 TOP (COLOUR OF I)
    Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Mind and Body: Athletic Contests in Ancient Greece (Athens, 1988): 136-137, NO.30 (A, B)
    Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens, 2009): 116, FIG.2 (I)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6684
  • AVI Record Number: 6448
  • LIMC ID: 46725
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7639c6439461e-c
  • CAVI Collection: Paris, Louvre G 104.+
  • CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Cerveteri. Onesimos (P). Euphronios, potter. Ca. 500.
  • CAVI Subject: Int.: Theseus and Amphitrite on the sea bottom, with Athena. Amphitrite holds a gilded wreath (in applied clay) for Theseus. A-B: Deeds of Theseus. A: Skiron; Prokroustes. B: Kerkyon; the bull.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: along the left margin, facing in, Gr.: Ευφρο[νιος ε]ποιεσε{2}. To right of Theseus' face: Θεσευς. Above Triton's head: Τριτο[ν]. To right of Athena's helmet: Αθεναις{3}. Above and to left of Amphitrite's head: Αμφ[ιτρι]τε, retr. A: to right of hisface: Θ[ε]σ[ευς]. At middle height: Σκι(ρ)ον, retr. To right of thehead: [Θεσ]ευς. To left of Procroustes: Προκρουστες, retr. B: at middle height: Κερκυον. To right of Theseus' face with the bull: [Θε]σευς.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} "The drawing of A-B in FR is restored: see the drawing in Mon. Gr.," (ARV[2]); cf. also Beazley in AJA. {2} so FR; Beazley has --σεν. {3} so FR i; I read Αθεναια.
  • CAVI Comments: + Florence PD 321. Theta both cartwheeel and dotted. Some rho's are tailed. For the Gr. signature see Cohen.
  • CAVI Number: 6448
  • AVI Bibliography: de Witte (1872), pls. 1-2. — Hartwig (1893), 481 ff. — FR (1904–32), i, 27-30, pl. 5 (Int.) and 2, 117-123, pl. 141 (A-B){1}. — ARV[2] (1963), 318/1 (much bibl.), 1645. — Para. (1971), 358. — Schefold–Jung (1988), 238-39, figs. 288-90. — Add.[2] (1989), 214 (much bibl.). — Arezzo (1990), 186/42a. — AttScr (1990), no. 994. — Denoyelle (1990), 214/55 (ill.). — Cohen (1991), 65, fig. 27 (Int.; small). — Robertson (1992), 48-50, figs. 34-35 (A, part, and Int.).
  • 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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  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/422859
  • Coordinates: 41.992798,12.092428
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.0047755,12.10281885
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