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310304, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1839,1109.1

  • Vase Number: 310304
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE B
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Inscriptions: Named: HEPHAISTOS, HERA, POSEIDON, APOLON, ATHENAIA, HILEITHYA
    Named: KALIAS, ANTHIPOS, ETEOKLOS
  • Attributed To: GROUP E by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: BIRTH OF ATHENA, ZEUS SEATED ON CHAIR WITH PROTOME OF HORSE AND YOUTHS, WITH THUNDERBOLT AND SCEPTRE, APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA, POSEIDON, HERA, HEPHAISTOS, EILEITHYIA, ARES, HERAKLES (SOME NAMED)
    B: WARRIOR DEPARTING IN CHARIOT, CHARIOTEER IN NEBRIS, MEN, SOME OLD, ONE SEATED ON STOOL, ONE HOLDING SHIELD AND HELMET, SOME NAMED
    Frieze below A: ANIMAL FRIEZE, GOATS, PANTHERS, SWANS
    Frieze below B: ANIMAL FRIEZE, PANTHERS, GOATS
    Lid 1: HUNTING, HORSEMEN AND YOUTHS, BOAR, DEER
    Lid 2: ANIMAL FRIEZE, PANTHERS, GOATS, DEER, LIONS
  • Current Collection: London, British Museum: B147
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 54 (2011) PL.4.3 (UH)
    Barringer, J.M., The Hunt in ancient Greece (Baltimore and London, 2001): 17, FIG.1 (LD1, LD2)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 135.44
    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.13, 13A (B, PROFILE)
    Böhm, S., Sphingen und Sirenen im archaischen Griechenland, Symbole der Ambivalenz in Bildszenen und Tierfriesen (Regensburg, 2020): 156, FIG.29 (COLOUR OF B)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 36
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.HE.3, PL.(144) 24.1A-G View Whole CVA Plates
    Ephemeris Archaiologike: 128 (1989) 112, FIG.7B (A)
    Jurriaans-Helle, G., Composition in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting: The Chariot in Profile Type Scene. Babesch Supplementa 41 (Leuven, Paris, and Bristol, 2021): 76, 249, FIG.27 (COLOUR OF B, B)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 859, NOS.634-635 (PART OF B)
    Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 125, FIG.92 (PART OF A)
    Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): I, PL.65A (COLOUR DRAWING OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.421, HERA 289 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.241, ZEUS ADD.62 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.255, HERMES 682 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.368, POSEIDON 173 (PART OF A)
    Metropolitan Museum Journal: 36 (2001) 27, FIGS.17-18 (B, PART)
    Morard, T., Horizontalite et Verticalite, Le bandeau humain et le bandeau divin chez le Peintre de Darius (Mainz, 2009): PL.62.2 (A)
    Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 97, FIG.4.14 (LD)
    Revue Archeologique: (1993), 242, FIG.6 (PART OF A)
    Schefold, K., Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art. English translation by A. Griffiths (Cambridge, 1992): FIG.6 (A)
    Schnapp, A., Le chasseur et la cite, Chasse et erotique dans la Grece ancienne (Paris, 1997): 234, NO.151 (LD)
    de La Geniere, J. (ed.), Hera, Images, espaces, cultes, Actes du Coll.Int.du Cent. de Rech. Archeologiques de l'Univ. de Lille III 1993 (Naples,1997): 97, FIG.1 (PART OF A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4415
  • AVI Record Number: 4243
  • LIMC ID: 11551
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74473d46e60cb-2
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1839-1109-1
  • CAVI Collection: London B 147.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Group E. Third quarter sixth. 550-540.
  • CAVI Subject: A: Birth of Athena. B: Warrior Leaving Home, in a chariot.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: by the left leg of Hephaestus: hεφαιστος, retr. Above Hera's head: hερα. To right of Poseidon's head: Ποσειδον. Below Apollo's lyre: Απολ[λ]ον, retr. To right of Zeus' face: Ζ[ευς]. To right of Athena: Α(θ)εναια. Over Eileithyia's head: hιλειθυα{1}. B: to right of the shield of the warrior in the chariot: Καλ[λ]ιας, retr. By the driver: Καλ[λ]ι[ας], retr. Over the head of an old man behind the horses: Ανθιπ[π]ο̣ς̣. A warrior at right is inscribed: Ετεοϙλος{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} for the forms occurring in Attic inscriptions, see Threatte (1980), 342. {2} this reading is firm (the photo agreeing with Kretschmer).
  • CAVI Comments: The names of Apollo, the two Kallias' and Anthippos are taken from the photo.; the others are from CVA and are no doubt partly restored and also otherwise not certain. The zeta is Z-shaped. One theta lacks the dot. Koppa with the head to one side.
  • CAVI Number: 4243
  • AVI Bibliography: Photo. — CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7402. — H.B. Walters in BM Cat. B (1893), 103 (bibl.). — Kretschmer (1894), 100 and n. 4 (Robert, C. Smith). — Wrede (1916), pl. 20, no. 29 (B). — H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great Britain 4 (1927), III H e, pl. 24,1a-g. — ABV (1956), 135/44, 686. — Para. (1971), 55. — Add.[2] (1989), 36.
  • 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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