305503, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1910,0212.1
- Vase Number: 305503
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
- Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
- Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
- Date: -525 to -475
- Attributed To: SAPPHO P by HASPELS
- Decoration: Body: CAPTURE OF SILENOS, MIDAS SEATED ON CHAIR WITH SCEPTRE, MAN IN SCYTHIAN CAP, PALM TREE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTION
- Current Collection: London, British Museum: 1910.2-12.1
- Previous Collections:
- Publication Record: Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, An International Journal of Comparative Studies in History and Archaeology: 12 (2006) 253, FIG.17 (DRAWING OF BD)
Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 507.32
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 126
Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 227.32
Hatzivassiliou, E., Athenian Black Figure Iconography between 510 and 475 B.C. (Rahden, 2010): PL.2.2-4 (BD)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.569, MIDAS 10 (PART)
Lissarrague, F., L'Autre Guerrier, Archers, Peltastes, Cavaliers dans l'Imagerie Attique (Paris-Rome, 1990): 120, FIG.67 (DRAWING)
Lissarrague, F., The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet, Images of Wine and Ritual (Princeton, 1990): 15, FIG.4 (DRAWING OF BD)
Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: 47 (1991) 15, FIG.9 (DRAWING OF BD)
Settis, S. (ed.), I Greci, Storia Cultura Arte Societa 2, Una storia greca, 1.Formazione (Turin, 1996): 1282, FIG.1 (PART) - AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4895
- AVI Record Number: 4720
- LIMC ID: 6120
- LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73fa47f0c0f68-3
- British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1910-0212-1
- CAVI Collection: London 1910.2-12.1.
- CAVI Lemma: BF lekythos. Sappho Painter. First quarter fifth.
- CAVI Subject: Capture of Silenus: in the center, Silenus in an enclosure lying down, to
drink from a spring; above him, a clothed figure is crawling on top of the
enclosure, noose in hand; on either side, a seated man holding a spear and
facing the center (that at left is Midas), and a palm tree.
- CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: under the outstretched arm of the seated man at right:
(.)(.)^(ο)εσ{1}. Under the right-hand palm tree: λτ(ι)τ^(ι)(ι)^.(2)
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} the readings are from Brommer: the first two letters may be imperfections
in the glaze; the spear intervenes; the omicron is smeared. According to Miller,
Midas is inscribed. The ph. perhaps shows, at top right of his middle: Μ̣(.)^δες
(so in Walters', but not in Brommer's reading: (Μ)[ι]δες). The mu perhaps
partially preserved. (.) looks like a dot at the bottom of the line. [I wonder
if the reading is right: nonsense? But bad misspellings are found in the Sappho
Painter.] Walters has other readings that differ. {2} the tree and the spear
intervene; the `iotas' are vertical strokes with small hooks at the bottom.
- CAVI Comments: Lissarrague has slightly different readings.
- CAVI Number: 4720
- AVI Bibliography: Walters (1911), 10, fig. 9 (poor dr.). — Haspels (1936), 227/32. — Brommer
(1941), 39, 42, and 43/I 5, figs. 3-5. — ABV (1956), 507/32. — M. Miller (1988),
80 and n. 9, pl. 18,4 (part of A). — Add.[2] (1989), 126. — Lissarrague (1990a),
fig. 4 (sketch with inscriptions).
- 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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