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310309, ATHENIAN, Unknown, private, Durand Collection, Paris, Musée du Louvre, F53

  • Vase Number: 310309
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE B
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Inscriptions: EXEKIAS
    Kalos/Kale: STESIASKALOS
    Named: ANCHIROS, SEMOS, PYROKEME, KALIPHONE, KALIPHORA
    Named: HERAKLES, GERYONE[US ?], EURYTION
    STESIAS
    Signature: ECHSEKIASEPOISE
  • Attributed To: EXEKIAS by SIGNATURE
    GROUP E by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND GERYON, EURYTION FALLEN IN NEBRIS AND PILOS (ALL NAMED)
    B: WARRIOR IN CHARIOT, SIREN (ALL NAMED)
    Lid: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SIRENS, DEER, INSCRIPTIONS
  • Current Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F53
  • Previous Collections:
    • Unknown, private, Durand Collection
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 136.49, 686, 674
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 55
    Bentz, M. (ed.), Vasenforschung und Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum I (Munich, 2002): 30, 32, FIGS.10, 10A (B, PROFILE)
    Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 115, FIG.68 (LD)
    Brinkmann, V., Beobachtungen zum formalen Aufbau und zum Sinngehalt der Friese des Siphnierschatzhauses (Ennepetal, 1994): 105, FIG.B (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
    Böhm, S., Sphingen und Sirenen im archaischen Griechenland, Symbole der Ambivalenz in Bildszenen und Tierfriesen (Regensburg, 2020): 156, FIG.28 (COLOUR OF B)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 36
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 3, III.He.13, PLS.(156-157) 19.1-3, 20.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates
    Denoyelle, M., Chefs-d Oeuvre de la Ceramique Grecque dans les collections du Louvre (Paris, 1994): 82-83, NO.36 (COLOUR OF A, PART OF B)
    Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): II, PL.106 (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
    Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 90 (2021) 646, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.106, GERYONEUS 14 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.56, EURYTION II 3 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.87, HERAKLES 2486 (A)
    Morris, K. (ed.), The Louvre and the Ancient World: Greek, Etruscan, Roman, Egyptian, and Near Eastern Antiquities from the Musee Du Louvre (Atlanta, 2007): 30, NO.1 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
    Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 69, FIG.33 (DRAWING OF A)
    Padgett, J. M. (ed.), The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (Princeton, 2003): 86, FIG.12 (COLOUR OF A)
    Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias hat mich gemalt und getöpfert: Ausstellung in der Archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 9.11.2018-31.3.2019 (Zurich, 2018): 22, 49, FIGS.3, 13 (COLOUR OF A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6527
  • AVI Record Number: 6291
  • LIMC ID: 21503
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74d44a062bafd-3
  • CAVI Collection: Paris, Louvre F 53.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Group E. Exekias, potter. Third quarter sixth. Ca. 540.
  • CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and Geryon. B: Warrior Leaving Home, in a chariot. Lid: sirens and stags{1}.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: along the left margin, facing it: Εχσεκιας εποιεσε. To right of Heracles' forehead: hερακλες. To left of Eurytion's head: Ευρυτιον, retr. Between Geryon's legs: Γερυονε[ς]{2}. Along the right margin, facing it: Στεσιας καλος, retr. B: To right of the warrior's forehead,: Ανχιπ[π]ος. Below the horses' bellies: Καλ[λ]ιφορα[ς]. To left of the mane of the third horse: Σεμος, retr. To right of the forehead of the fourth horse: Πυρ[ρ]οκομε{3}. Below the bent-down forehead of the second horse: Καλ[λ]ιϙομε. On the lid: to left and right of one siren: two groups of nonsense letters.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} the lid belongs (see Para.). {2} for the omitted sigma, see Threatte (1980), 640. {3} partly restored?
  • CAVI Comments: Two stallions and two mares. On the name Kalliphoras (not Kalliphora) see AttScr. For the horse name Semos see Berlin 1811-1826.
  • CAVI Number: 6291
  • AVI Bibliography: E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 3, France 4 (1925), III H e, pl. 19,1-3. — Beazley (1931–2), 6/31. — anon. (1937), ii, 286-87. — Dev.[1] (1951), 63-64 and 112. — Boardman (1952), 35-37, fig. 23,b. — ABV (1956), 136/49, 686. — Para. (1971), 55. — Add.[2] (1989), 36. — AttScr (1990), no. 128.
  • 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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