214836, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, CA1853
- Vase Number: 214836
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: RED-FIGURE
- Shape Name: HYDRIA
- Provenance: ITALY, CAMPANIA (?)
- Date: -475 to -425
- Attributed To: LATER MANNERIST by BEAZLEY
- Decoration: Body: BIRTH OF ERICHTHONIOS (?), YOUTH (CHILD ?) ON ALTAR WITH SNAKES, HERAKLES WITH SICKLE, ATHENA, WOMAN FLEEING
- Current Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: CA1853
- Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1121.18
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 331
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, MUSEE DU LOUVRE 9, III.I.D.40, III.I.D.42, PLS.(637,638) 52.4.6, 53.2 View Whole CVA Plates - AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6908
- AVI Record Number: 6667
- LIMC ID: 31312
- LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-755f7ea452cea-1
- CAVI Collection: Paris, Louvre CA 1853.
- CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Campania? Undetermined Later Mannerist. Third quarter fifth.
- CAVI Subject: Body: a nude Heracles with a sickle grasps one of two snakes on an altar, on
which are the head and shoulders of a child warding off the snakes; Athena and a
woman, both retreating.
- CAVI Inscriptions: Body: inscriptions in white: above Heracles' head: κ̣αλος. To left of
Athena's face: καλο[ς]{1}. Above the woman's head: καλο[ς]{1}.
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} it is unclear from CVA, whether the reading is καλο[ς] or καλο[ς].
- CAVI Comments: Beazley: unexplained subject. Schmidt: Erichthonius and a daughter of
Cecrops? Schefold: Erichthonius on the altar, between Heracles and Athena;
Aglaurus. Curious is the masculine for the females.
- CAVI Number: 6667
- AVI Bibliography: N. Plaoutine, CVA Louvre 9, France 14 (1938), III I d, pls. 52,4,6 and 53,2.
— ARV[2] (1963), 1121/18. — M. Schmidt (1968), pl. 75,2. — Schefold (1981), 52,
fig. 62. — Add.[2] (1989), 331.
- 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/432742
- Coordinates: 41,14.5
- Pleiades Coordinates: 41.25,14.25
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