310459, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1849,0620.5

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Vase Number: 310459
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: OLPE
Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
Date: -575 to -525
Inscriptions: AMASIS
Signature: AMASISMEPOIESEN
Attributed To: AMASIS P by BEAZLEY
AMASIS by SIGNATURE
Decoration: Body: PERSEUS, WITH SICKLE, AND MEDUSA (BOTH IN NEBRIS), HERMES
Current Collection: London, British Museum: B471
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1849,0620.5 (View on British Museum site)
- London, British Museum: 1849.6-20.5
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 153.32, 687
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 64
Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 65, 150-151 (BD, COLOUR OF BD, PROFILE)
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 44
Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.9.35 (PART)
Les mythes fondateurs à la Petite Galerie du Louvre, Dossiers d'Archéologie: 372, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015, 31 TOP (COLOUR OF BD)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.183, GORGO, GORGONES 293
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.290, PERSEUS 113
Marconi, C., Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World, The Metopes of Selinus (Cambridge, 2007): 146, FIG.73 (DRAWING OF BD)
Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 22, FIG.13 (PROFILE)
Valavanis, P. and Kourkoumelis, D., Chaire kai piei, drinking vessels (1996): 77 (COLOUR)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4507
AVI Record Number: 4335
LIMC ID: 9728
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-742d64255a17b-a
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1849-0620-5
CAVI Collection: London B 471.
CAVI Lemma: BF oinochoe (olpe). From Vulci. Amasis Painter. Third quarter sixth. 540-530. Middle period (Beazley). Late (Bothmer).
CAVI Subject: Perseus slaying Medusa, with Hermes.
CAVI Inscriptions: Along the left-hand edge, facing out: Αμασις μεποιεσεν vacat.
CAVI Comments: The words slightly separated, without a vacat; see AttScr.
CAVI Number: 4335
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 8126. — ABV (1956), 153/32, 687. — Para. (1971), 64. — Bothmer (1985), 150/31 (ill.). — Add.[2] (1989), 44. — AttScr (1990), no. 158, fig. 35.
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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