204681, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 13.186
- Vase Number: 204681
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: RED-FIGURE
- Shape Name: SKYPHOS
- Provenance: ITALY, SUESSULA
- Date: -500 to -450
- Inscriptions: HIERON
Named: ALECHSANDROS, HELENE, APHRODITE, PEITHO, KRISEUS, KRISEIS, APHRODITE, HELENE, MENELEOS, PRIAMOS
Signature: HIERON EPOIESEN
Signature: MAKRON EGRAPHSEN - Attributed To: HIERON by SIGNATURE
MAKRON by SIGNATURE - Decoration: A: PARIS ABDUCTING HELEN, EROS, APHRODITE, PEITHO, AINEIAS (ALL NAMED), SHIELD DEVICE, LION
B: MENELAOS ATTACKING HELEN, APHRODITE, KRISEIS (ALL NAMED), OLD MAN WITH STAFF (KRISEUS), SHIELD DEVICE, BULL
Under handle: DRAPED YOUTH, PRIAM (NAMED) SEATED WITH STAFF - Current Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 13.186
- Publication Record: Anderson, J.M., The Fall of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art (Oxford, 1997): 258, FIGS.9A-B (A, B)
Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 471, FIGS.49.1-2 (A, B)
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 458.1, 1654, 481
Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 211.3
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 377
Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): C, PL.1
Bol, P. (ed.), Zum Verhältnis von Raum und Zeit in der griechischen Kunst (2003): PL.8, FIG.15 (DRAWING OF B)
Brinkmann, V., Beobachtungen zum formalen Aufbau und zum Sinngehalt der Friese des Siphnierschatzhauses (Ennepetal, 1994): 64 (DRAWING OF PART OF B)
Brinkmann, V., Beobachtungen zum formalen Aufbau und zum Sinngehalt der Friese des Siphnierschatzhauses (Ennepetal, 1994): 92, FIG.B (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 119
Cairns, D. (ed.), Body language in the Greek and Roman worlds (Swansea, 2005): 67, FIG.6 (DRAWING OF A)
Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.293 (DRAWING OF A)
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 243
Carter, J.B. and Morris, S.P. (eds.), The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule (Austin, 1995): 432-433, FIGS.26.1-2 (B, AH)
Classical Antiquity: 15 (1996) FIGS.6A-B (B, AH)
Classical Antiquity: 22 (2003) FIGS.1-2 AT 134 (A, B)
Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.85
Gazette archeologique: 1880, PLS.7-8
Ghali-Kahil, L., Les Enlevements et le retour d'Helene (Paris, 1955): PL.4 (A)
Hedreen, G., Capturing Troy, The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 2001): FIGS.9A-B (B, UH)
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): II, 53
Hurwit, J.M., Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2015): 85, FIG.43 (A)
Journal of the Walters Art Gallery: 55/56 (1997/98) 29, FIG.2 (A)
Kondoleon, C. and Segal, P.C. (eds.), Aphrodite and the gods of love (Boston, 2011): 68, NO.49 (COLOUR OF PART OF A)
Kondoleon, C., Grossmann, R.A. et al., MFA Highlights, Classical Art (Boston, 2008): 61 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 831, NO.77 (PART OF B)
Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 859, NO.625 (PART OF B)
Kunisch, N., Makron (Mainz, 1997): 14-15, 36, FIGS.7, 9, 19.300, PLS.98-99.300 (INCL. PROFILE)
Kurtz, D.C. (ed.), Greek Vases, Lectures by J.D. Beazley (Oxford, 1989): PLS.66-67 (A, B, DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.321, HELENE 166 (A)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.334, HELENE 243 (B)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.608, NIKOSTRATOS 2 (UH)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.405, PRIAMOS 80 (PART)
Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 236, APP.136 (COLOUR OF UH)
Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 70, FIGS.33-34 (AH)
Morais, R., Leao, D., and Rodriguez Perez, D. (eds.), Greek Art in Motion, Studies in Honour of Sir John Boardman on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday (Oxford, 2019): 160, FIG.8 (COLOUR OF A)
Oakley, J.H., and Sinos, R.H., The wedding in ancient Athens (Madison, 1993): 98, FIG.86 (A)
Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIGS.435-6
Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.22A (A)
Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 64, FIG.3 (PART OF A)
Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 104, FIG.100 (A)
Rosenzweig, R., Worshipping Aphrodite, Art and Cult in Classical Athens (Ann Arbor, 2004): FIG.6 (A)
Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 119, FIG.98, 295, FIG.256BIS (A, B)
Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 190, FIG.148 (A)
Walter-Karydi, E., Die Athener und ihre Gräber (1000-300 v.Chr.) (Berlin, 2015): 214, FIG.116 (DRAWING OF A) - AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2923
- AVI Record Number: 2775
- LIMC ID: 6026
- LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73f8efe87f112-d
- CAVI Collection: Boston 13.186.
- CAVI Lemma: RF skyphos. From Suessula. Makron. Hieron, potter. First quarter fifth.
490-480. Hauptwerk II (Kunisch).
- CAVI Subject: A:Paris abducting Helen{1}. B: Menelaus attacking Helen{2}.
- CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of the top of head of the left-most youth, just below the margin:
Αινεα[ς]{3}. Above Aeneas' shield, following its curve, to left of the helmeted
head of Paris: Αλεχσανδρος, retr. hελενε. To left of Aphrodite's face: Αφροδιτε,
retr.{4}. To left of Peitho's raised hand, into which it runs, with the last
letter raised: Πειθο. Behind a boy standing at the extreme right, along the
lower body and positioned under handle A/B, vertically up: Μακρον : εγραφσεν{5}.
B: Κρισευς. To left of the top of head of Chryseis: Κρισεις. To right of
Aphrodite's face: Αφροδιτε. To right of Helen's face: hελενε. Behind Menelaus'
helmet: Μενελεος. To left of Priam's face (he sits to left under the handle
B/A): Πριαμος, retr.{6}. On the right arm of handle B/A, in the BG portion of
the right hasta, Gr., from the root, facing out (see pl. 77,2): hιερον
εποιεσεν{7}.
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} O. and S. identify the scene as a procession on foot (recalling the
wedding procession) with the χειρ επι καρπῳ gesture suggestion abduction. {2}
Menelaus attacking Helen: Robertson (1995) believes the attack depicted is at
the occasion of the embassy to Troy, not at end of Trojan War. Will publish this
(see his n. 359). {3} Kunisch: Αινεα[ς], for which there is room. {4} K. does
not give the inscription of Aphrodite in the cat. (cf. also the listing, p. 100
n. 402). The ph. shows it clearly. {5} under the handle, an unnamed youth to
left; on his left, upward, the Makron signature. {6} Priam is seated under a
handle. Kunisch reads: Πριανος, retr. {7} K. in cat. has in the sketch: εποισεν.
I cannot verify this in the phs., as the area is all scratched up. On p. 8, K.
says the sigma here is four-stroke; so also in the sketch; it is the only
4-stroke sigma on the vase. Cup-type handle. The glaze flaked off after the
inscription was made.
- CAVI Comments: On Kriseus and Kriseis see CB 37 and cf. Kretschmer (1894), 206, accepted in
Threatte (1980), 261 and 453. I do think (pace Kretschmer) that these names are
miswritten for Χρυσευς and Χρυσεις who are wrongly imported here from the Iliad.
Makron is a very poor speller, cf. AttScr. Some remarks on the name Makron in CB
39. For the shape of the handles (cup type), see Kunisch, p. 15.
- CAVI Number: 2775
- AVI Bibliography: FR (1904–32), ii, 125-31, pl. 85 (dr.). — CB (1931–63), iii, 32/140, pls.
76-77(phs., A, B, sides; showing some of the inscriptions) (much bibl.). —
ARV[2] (1963), 458/1, 1654. — Para. (1971), 377. — LIMC i (1981), Aineias 11*,
Alexandros 64*. — LIMC ii (1984), Aphrodite 1256, Aphrodite 1445, Aphrodite
1471. — LIMC iii (1986), Chryses I/9. — LIMC iv (1988), 530, Helene 166* (pl.
321); 540, Helene 243* (pl. 334). — Add.[2] (1989), 243 (much bibl.). — Beazley
(1989), 84-88, pls. 66-67 (after Reichhold). — AttScr (1990), no. 561. — Cohen
(1991), 69-70, figs. 33-34. — Robertson (1992), 304-305, fig. 100 (A). — LIMC vi
(1992), 907, Nikostratos 2* (pl. 608). — Oakley–Sinos (1993), 32-33, fig. 86
(A). — LIMC vii (1994), Peitho 2; 515, Priamos 80* (pl. 405). — Robertson
(1995), 431ff., figs. 26,1-2. — Kunisch (1997), 7, 8, 15, 100 n. 402, 127f.,
129-30 and n. 612, 191/300, figs. 7 (profile), 9 (ph. of Makron signature), pls.
98-99 (shows Hieron signature and traces of inscriptions) (much bibl.). — LIMC
viii (1997), (suppl.) Menelaos 54.
- 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 Coordinates: 40.9900604421,14.3986099472
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