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300769, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection, 15156

  • Vase Number: 300769
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KANTHAROS, FRAGMENTS
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS, ACROPOLIS
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Inscriptions: NEARCHOS
    Named: HERMES, KE[...]
    Named: [LY]CHORGOS, K[...], CHO[...]
    Signature: NEARCHO...
  • Attributed To: NEARCHOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A: GIGANTOMACHY, GODS AND GIANTS, SOME NAMED, HERMES IN CHITONISKOS AND NEBRIS, ATHENA, SHIELD, WITH WINGED FIGURE, SPHINX, SIREN, PANTHER
    B: MEN
  • Current Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.612
  • Previous Collections:
    • Athens, National Museum: 15156
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 83.3
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 23
    Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.17C
    Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Phyta kai Zoia. Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Österreich, Band 2 (Vienna, 2015): 262, FIG.2A (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
    Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 196, FIG.97 (PART)
    Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.18D
    Zardini, F., The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos, A Study in Greek Vase-Painting and Literature (Verona, 2009): 334, FIG.20
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=1092
  • AVI Record Number: 977
  • LIMC ID: 27196
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-75250ce610b12-1
  • CAVI Collection: Athens, N.M. Acr. i, 612.
  • CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF kantharos. From Athens. Nearchos. Second quarter sixth. Ca. 560-550.
  • CAVI Subject: A: Gigantomachy. B: males{1}.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: fr. a: below the top margin, in the left preserved corner, to left of Hermes: Nεαρχος [---], retr. To left of Hermes' left knee: hερμες, retr. Above the same knee: Κε̣[---]. Fr. f: above one of two male feet preserved: [Λυ]χοργος{2}. Fr. c: between sword and arm of warrior, perhaps facing left: Κ[---]. Fr. h (unassigned): Χο[---].
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} fr. h cannot be assigned, but belongs (Graef; but, if part of B, it would be the only fr. with an inscription). {2} so the dr.; text of Graef–Langlotz has --]κοργος.
  • CAVI Comments: = Athens, N.M. 15,156. Inscriptions are in the preliminary sketch. The earliest Gigantomachy (Shapiro).
  • CAVI Number: 0977
  • AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, no. 612, pl. 36 (dr.). — ABV (1956), 83/3. — Shapiro (1984), 528 and n. 61, pl. 69, fig. 7 (shows inscriptions). — Add.[2] (1989), 23.
  • 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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