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310454, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 01.8027

  • Vase Number: 310454
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Provenance: ITALY, ORVIETO
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Inscriptions: AMASIS
    Named: APOLON, HERMES, [HER]AKLES
    Named: PHOINICHS, ACHILEUS, THETIS
    Signature: AMAS[I]S MEPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: AMASIS P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND APOLLO, STRUGGLE FOR THE TRIPOD, HERMES IN NEBRIS (ALL NAMED)
    B: ARMS OF ACHILLES, HOLDING SPEAR AND HELMET (WITH RAMS), THETIS WITH SHIELD, DEVICE, LION ATTACKING DEER, PHOINIX (ALL NAMED)
  • Current Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 01.8027
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 152.27, 687
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 63
    Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 134-137, NO.25 (A, B, UH, PARTS)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 44
    Classical Antiquity: 12 (1993) FIG.4 AT P.218 (B)
    Classical Antiquity: 8 (1989) 96, FIG.3 (DRAWING OF B)
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 1, 21-22, FIG.26, PLS.(649,650) 27.1-2, 28.3 View Whole CVA Plates
    Grabow, E., Schlangenbilder in der griechischen schwarzfigurigen Vasenkunst (Paderborn, 1998): PL.25.K133 (PART OF B)
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PLS.9.37-38, 10.39 (PARTS OF A AND B)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 840, NO.247 (PART OF B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.245, HERMES 538 (A)
    Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1987): 39, FIG.16 (B)
    Thetis, Mannheimer Beiträge zur Klassischen Archäologie und Geschichte Griechenlands und Zyperns: 21 (2015) 50, FIG.42 (PART OF B)
    Walter-Karydi, E., Die Athener und ihre Gräber (1000-300 v.Chr.) (Berlin, 2015): 225, FIG.122 (PART OF B)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2851
  • AVI Record Number: 2704
  • LIMC ID: 22640
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74e471bb2328f-4
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 01.8027.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From Orvieto. Amasis Painter. 525-515{1}.
  • CAVI Subject: A: The Struggle for the Tripod. B: Achilles receiving armor from Thetis.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: in upper left corner: Αμασις̣ vac. 2 μεποιεσεν. Above the heads: Απολ[λ]ον. hερμες. [hερ]α̣κλες. B: above the heads: Φοινιχς. Αχιλ[λ]ευς. Θετ̣ις.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Boston 01.8026. On the question of which armor is meant, see Bothmer.
  • CAVI Comments: Closed heta. Cartwheel theta.
  • CAVI Number: 2704
  • AVI Bibliography: Dev.[1] (1951), 58. — ABV (1956), 152/27, 687. — Karouzou (1956), pls. 33-34 and 35,1-2. — Para. (1971), 63. — H. Hoffmann et al., CVA Boston 1, USA 14 (1973), pls.28,3 and 29. — Bothmer (1985), 134/25 and photos. — Dev.[2] (1986), pl. 49. — Add.[2] (1989), 44. — AttScr (1990), no. 160, figs. 37-39.
  • 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/639959859
  • Coordinates: 42.718642,12.114315
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.7225286,12.1198882
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