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203792, ATHENIAN, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, 1602

  • Vase Number: 203792
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KRATER, CALYX
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, CERVETERI
  • Date: -500 to -450
  • Inscriptions: Named: DANAE, AKRISIOS
  • Attributed To: TRIPTOLEMOS P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: DANAE (NAMED) SEATED ON KLINE, AND THE GOLDEN RAIN, FOOT STOOL, MIRROR SUSPENDED
    B: MAN WITH STICK AT CHEST, DANAE AND THE INFANT PERSEUS, OLD MAN WITH SCEPTRE (AKRISIOS)
  • Current Collection: St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: 637
  • Previous Collections:
    • St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: 1602
    • St. Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum: ST1723
  • Publication Record: Archaeological News: 8 (1979) 4. 105, FIGS.14-15 (A,B)
    Archeologia, Rocznik Instytuto Archeologii i Etnologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk: 24 (1973) 63, FIG.17 (A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 360.1, 1648
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 239.1
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 153.14
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 364, 512
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.306 (A)
    Borchardt, J. (ed.), Götter, Heroen, Herrscher in Lykien (Vienna and Munich, 1990): 136, NO.27 (A)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 110
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 222
    Cook, A., Zeus (Cambridge, 1914-40): III, 457
    Frontisi-Ducroux, F. and Vernant, J-P., Dans l'oeil du miroir (Paris, 1997): PL.7 (DRAWING OF A)
    Gerhard, E., Danae: ein griechisches Vasenbild (Berlin, 1854): PL.1
    Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 100 (1985) 49, FIG.12A (B)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 834, NO.137 (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): 130, FIG.97 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.343, AKRISIOS 3 (B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PLS.243, 247, DANAE 1, 48 (PARTS OF A & B)
    Overbeck, J., Atlas der griechischen Kunstmythologie (Leipzig, 1871-78): PL.6.3
    Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 269-270, NO.74 (COLOUR OF A, B)
    Rivista di Archeologia: 17 (1993) D'ABRUZZO FIG.1 (A)
    Schefold, K., Die Göttersage in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1981): 240, FIG.336 (A)
    Simon, E. & Hirmer, M., Die Griechischen Vasen (Munich, 1976): PLS.164-65 (A)
    Van Keuren, F. (ed.), Myth, Sexuality and Power, Images of Jupiter in Western Art, Archaeologia Transatlantica XVI (Louvain-La-Neuve, 1998): 45, FIG.4 (A)
    Ziomecki, J., Les representations d'artisans sur les vases attiques (Warsaw, 1975): 76, FIG.30 (PART OF B)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7611
  • AVI Record Number: 7352
  • LIMC ID: 33674
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7580f6824ef63-d
  • CAVI Collection: St. Petersburg 637.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. From Cerveteri. Triptolemos Painter. First quarter fifth. Ca. 490 (Howe, Peredol’skaya).
  • CAVI Subject: A: Danae seated on a couch; the golden rain. B: the chest.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Danae's mouth, slightly curving downward: Δαναε{1}. B: hο παις καλος{2}. Ακρισιος.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} see the ph. in KAV, pl. 30,2, and pl. 169,8. {2} wrongly placed upside down in KAV, pl. 170,1. Peredol’skaya does not have an inscription Ακρισιος in the facss.
  • CAVI Comments: = inv. 1602. = St. 1723.
  • CAVI Number: 7352
  • AVI Bibliography: Photo (A). — Howe (1953), 272, pl. 76, fig. 1 (bibl.). — ARV[2] (1963), 360/1, 1648. — Peredol’skaya (1967), 45/42, pls. 30, 169,8 and 170,1 (facss.) (vast bibl.). — Para. (1971), 364, 512. — D. Williams (1976b), pl. 9, fig. 11. — Jenkins–Williams (1985), 415 and n. 25, pl. 46, fig. 12 (after Gerhard (1854a), pl. 1, dr.). — Add.[2] (1989), 222 (much bibl.).
  • 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/422859
  • Coordinates: 41.992798,12.092428
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.0047755,12.10281885
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