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211325, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection, Athens, National Museum, 2.439

  • Vase Number: 211325
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
  • Shape Name: CUP, FRAGMENTS
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS, ACROPOLIS
  • Date: -475 to -425
  • Inscriptions: GLAUKON
    Kalos/Kale: [GLAUK]ON
    Named: ORPHEUS
  • Attributed To: PISTOXENOS P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A,B: HORSES, MEN, ONE IN CAP AND CHLAMYS
    I: DEATH OF ORPHEUS (NAMED), WITH LYRE, THRACIAN WOMAN WITH AXE, TATTOOED
  • Current Collection: Athens, National Museum: 15190
  • Previous Collections:
    • Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 2.439
  • Publication Record: Annali del Seminario di Studi del Mondo Classico: 15 (1993) PL.19.1 (I)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1580.2
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 859 , 860.2 , 1672
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 260.5
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 425
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): 38, NO.4, FIG.64 (I, PART)
    Boardman, J., The Greeks Overseas, 4th edition (London, 1999): 238, FIG.281
    Bonacasa, N. (ed.), Lo Stile Severo in Grecia e in Occidente, Aspetti e problemi, Studi e Materiali 9 (Rome, 1995): PL.6.4
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 146
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 298
    Cohen, B. (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal, Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (Leiden, Boston and Köln, 2000): 113, FIG.4.4 (I)
    Harari, M. et al. (eds.), Icone del mondo antico, un seminario di storia delle immagini, Pavia, Collegio Ghislieri, 25 novembre 2005 (Rome, 2009): PL.33.7 (PART OF I)
    Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 72
    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): I, 381
    Huf, L., Frauen jenseits der Konvention: Alterszüge, Tätowierungen und afrikanische Physiognomien im Frauenbild attischer Vasen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Munich, 2018): 100, FIGS.38.1-6 (COLOUR OF I AND PARTS OF I)
    Journal of Hellenic Studies: 9 (1888) PL.6
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.60, ORPHEUS 30 (PART OF I)
    Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 160, FIG.9 (PART OF I)
    Mayor, A., The Amazons. Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (Princeton and Oxford, 2014): 96, FIG.6.1 (DRAWING OF I)
    Perrot, G., Chipiez, C., Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquite, vols. IX-X (Paris, 1911-14): X, 708-9
    Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.416 (DETAIL OF I)
    Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 82, FIG.92 (I)
    Tsiaphaki, D., I Thraki stin attiki eikonographia tou 5ou aiona p. Ch., Prosengiseis stis scheseis Athinas kai Thrakis (Komotini, 1998): 333, FIGS.11A-B (I)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=1477
  • AVI Record Number: 1362
  • LIMC ID: 9518
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-742a6e8aff730-6
  • CAVI Collection: Athens, N.M. Acr. ii, 439.+
  • CAVI Lemma: Frs. of WG cup. From Athens. Pistoxenos Painter. Ca. 480-470.
  • CAVI Subject: WG: Int.: Death of Orpheus. A, B: cavalrymen with horses.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: above Orpheus' head: Ορφευς. Γ[λαυκ]ον{1}. Above O.'s lyre, along the margin: [Ευφρονιος(?) επ]οιεσεν{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Graef–Langlotz; ARV[2] and the photo in Graef–Langlotz only show [---]ον. Doubtless had a καλος (Beazley). {2} see ARV[2] 859.
  • CAVI Comments: An unpublished fr. added by Karouzou is mentioned in JHS 64 (1944) 79. A small fr. in Athens with a black horse(?) may also belong. Robertson discusses the question of restoring Euphronios as the potter. New frs. are mentioned in BCH 76 (1952) 204. - I have a note from Philippaki's picture: Int.: below the axe held by the Thracian woman, bearing upward: [--]ο̣ν. Less than 1/2 of the omicron is preserved. Above the scene, curving along margin: [---]οιεσεν. Above Orpheus' head, horizontal but curving down at end: Ορφευς.
  • CAVI Number: 1362
  • AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), ii, no. 439 (much bibl.), pls. 35,2 and 36. — ARV[2] (1963), 860/2 (much bibl.), 1672. — Para. (1971), 425. — Philippaki (1974), 100, fig. 44 (Int., good picture). — Mertens (1977), pl. 32,1-2 (Int., parts of A and B). — Add.[2] (1989), 298 (much bibl.). — Robertson (1992), 156-57. — Robertson (1992), 156-57.
  • 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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