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305075, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, 15499

  • Vase Number: 305075
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: DINOS, FRAGMENTS
  • Provenance: GREECE, THESSALY, PHARSALOS, NEAR
  • Date: -600 to -550
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: PATROXLUS ATLA
    Named: ACHILES
    SOPHILOS
    Signature: SOPHIL MEGRAPHSEN SOPH[ILOS MEPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: SOPHILOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: Body 1: FUNERARY GAMES OF PATROKLOS, CHARIOT RACE, ONLOOKERS (DRAPED MEN) SEATED ON STAND, ACHILLES (NAMED)
    Body 2: ANIMAL FRIEZE, FELINES, GOAT OR DEER, FLORAL, LOTUS, BETWEEN LIONS, SIRENS
    Body 3: ANIMAL FRIEZE, PANTHER, DEER, FELINE
    Body 4: SIREN, LION OR PANTHER
    On rim: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SIREN, PANTHER, GOAT, LION
  • Current Collection: Athens, National Museum: 15499
  • Publication Record: Agones kai Athlimata stin Archaia Thessalia, Ypourgeio Politismoy Archaiologiko Mouseio Volou (Athens, 2004): 42, FIG.17 (COLOUR)
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    Alexandridou, A., The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c.630-570 BCE) (Leiden, 2011): FIG.41 (BD1, PARTS)
    Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 80 (OCTOBER 1991) 69 BOTTOM (COLOUR)
    Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 99 (MAY 1993) 79 (COLOUR)
    Averna, E., Intrattentmenti ludici dalla preistoria al medioevo (Rome, 2009): 190, FIG.100 (PART)
    Bakir, G., Sophilos (Mainz, 1981): PLS.6-7, FIGS.10-14, TEXT 10, FIGS.2-5 (INCLUDING DRAWINGS)
    Barringer, J.M., The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2014): 163, FIG.3.31 (COLOUR OF BD1)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 39.16, 681
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 18
    Beazley, J.D., The Development of Attic Black-figure, 2nd ed. (California, 1986): PL.15.3
    Bianchi Bandinelli, R. and Paribeni, E., L'Arte dell' antichita classica, I, Grecia (Turin, 1976): NO.270
    Bieber, M., The History of the Greek and Roman Theater, 2nd ed. (Princeton, 1961): 54, FIG.220 (DRAWING OF PART)
    Boardman, J., Athenian Black Figure Vases (London, 1974): FIG.26
    Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Hommes et Dieux de la Grece Antique (1.10-2.12.1982): 152, NO.88
    Cambiano, G. et al., Lo spazio letterario della Grecia Antica (Salerno, 1992): PL.3 (COLOUR)
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.315
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 10
    Carter, J.B. and Morris, S.P. (eds.), The Ages of Homer: A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule (Austin, 1995): 364, FIG.21.1
    Charbonneaux, J., Martin, R., and Villard, F., Archaic Greek Art (London, 1971): 57, FIG.58
    Decker, W., Antike Spitzensportler: Athletenbiographien aus dem Alten Orient, Ägypten und Griechenland (Hildesheim, 2014): 35, FIG.13 (COLOUR OF BD1)
    Finley, M., and Pleket, H., The Olympic Games; The First Thousand Years (London, 1976): PL. AT 11, FIG.B
    Forsen, B. and Stanton, G. (eds.), The Pnyx in the History of Athens, Proc. of an Int. Colloquium, Finnish Institute at Athens (Helsinki, 1996): FIG.15
    Ghiron-Bistagne, P., Recherches sur les Acteurs dans la Grece Antique (Paris, 1976): 199, FIG.64
    Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin: SPRING 1997, 13, FIG.3
    Hollinshead, M. Shaping Ceremony. Monumental Steps and Greek Architecture (Madison, 2015): 10, UNNUMBERED
    Hurwit, J.M., Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2015): 78, FIG.37
    Hurwit, J.M., The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 (Ithaca, 1985): 223, FIG.92
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.3.13
    Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 100 (1985) 283, FIG.37 (PART)
    Kaltsas N. (ed.), Agon, Exhibition catalogue (Athens, 2004): 124, NO.20 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.11 ABOVE (COLOUR)
    Laser, S., Sport und Spiel, Archeologia Homerica (Göttingen, 1987): 85, FIG.33 (DRAWING)
    Latacz, J. et al., Homer, Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst (Munich, and Basel 2008): 136, FIG.11
    Laxander, H., Individuum und Gemeinschaft im Fest, Untersuchungen zu attischen Darstellungen von Festgeschehen im 6. und frühen 5. Jahrhundert v. Chr. (Münster, 2000): PL.77.1 (BD1, PARTS)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.108, ACHILLEUS 491
    Lippolis, Gli eroi di Olimpia, lo sport nella societa Greca e Magnogreca (Taranto, 1992): 78, FIG.69
    Lissarrague, F. et al. (eds.), Ceramique et peinture Grecques, Modes d'emploi, Actes du colloque internat., Ecole du Louvre, April 1995 (Paris, 1999): 161, FIG.3 (DRAWING)
    Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 64, FIG.52 (DRAWING)
    Lydakis, S., Ancient Greek Painting and its Echoes in Later Art (Athens, 2002): 79, FIG.60 (COLOUR OF BD1)
    Metropolitan Museum Journal: 51 (2016) 12, FIG.1 (COLOUR)
    Monuments et memoires publies par l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: 74 (1995) 37, FIG.1 (COLOUR, DRAWING)
    Morais, R., Centeno, R., and Freitas Ferreira, D. (eds.), Myths, Gods and Heroes. Greek Vases in Portugal – Mitos, Deuses e Heróis. Vasos Gregos em Portugal (Porto, 2022): 267, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Moraw, S. and Nölle, E. (eds.), Die Geburt des Theaters in der griechischen Antike (Mainz, 2002): 35, FIG. 27 (COLOUR)
    Morris, I., and Powell, B., A New Companion to Homer (Leiden, 1997): PL.11
    Müller, S., Das Volk der Athleten, Untersuchungen zur Ideologie und Kritik des Sports in der griechisch-römischen Antike (Trier, 1995): 135, FIG.11
    Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 19, FIG.5
    Nikephoros: 2 (1989) 315, FIG.5
    Nikephoros: SPECIAL ISSUE 2012, 75 (PART OF BD1)
    Olivova, V., Sports and Games in the Ancient World (1984): 89
    Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 189, FIG.86 (PART)
    Papers of the British School at Rome: 58 (2014), 22, FIG.18
    Patrucco, R., Lo Sport nella Grecia antica (Florence, 1972): 375, FIG.181
    Paul, E., Antike Keramik (Leipzig, 1982): 181 (DRAWING)
    Phoenix, Classical Association of Canada: 55 (2001) PL.2
    Plantzos, D., Greek Art and Archaeology, c. 1100-30 BC (Athens, 2016): 87, FIG.129 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Report of the Department of Antiquities, Cyprus: 1982, PL.40
    Richter, G., Perspective in Greek and Roman Art (London [1970]): FIG.74
    Schefold, K., Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der Früh- und Hocharchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1993): 319, FIG.352
    Schertz, P. and Stribling, N. (eds.), The Horse in Ancient Greek Art, National Sporting Library & Museum Middleburg, Virginia (Middleburg and Richmond, 2017): 66, FIG.50 (COLOUR)
    Settis, S. (ed.), I Greci, Storia Cultura Arte Societa 2, Una storia greca, 1.Formazione (Turin, 1996): 1201, FIG.25
    Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 34, FIG.18
    Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.21A
    Simon, E. & Hirmer, M., Die Griechischen Vasen (Munich, 1976): PL.50
    Small, J.P., The Parallel Worlds of Classical Art and Text (Cambridge, 2003): 13, FIG.2
    Snodgrass, A., Homer and the Artists, Text and Picture in early Greek Art (Cambridge, 1998): 117, FIG.45
    Stampolidis, N.C. et al. (eds.), Beyond. Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece (Athens, 2014): 127, FIG.55 (COLOUR)
    Taplin, O. (ed.), Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds, A New Perspective (Oxford, 2000): 43, FIG.2 (BD1, PARTS)
    Troja, Traum und Wirklichkeit (Stuttgart, 2001): 99, FIG.99 (COLOUR)
    Tsaknis, N., Trophies of the Argonauts (Volos, 2004): 37 (COLOUR OF BD1 AND PARTS)
    Tuna-Norling, Y., Daskyleion I, Die attische Keramik (Izmir, 1999): 20
    Tzachou-Alexandri, O., Mind and Body: Athletic Contests in Ancient Greece (Athens, 1988): 129, FIG.25
    Valavanis, P., Games and sanctuaries in ancient Greece: Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia, Nemea, Athens (Los Angeles, 2004): 42, FIG.38 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Walter-Karydi, E. (ed.), Myths, Texts, Images, Homeric epics and ancient Greek art, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Odyssey, Ithaca, September 15-19, 2009 (Ithaca, 2010): 155-156, FIGS.1-3 (BD1-4)
    Wünsche, R. and Knauss, F. (eds.), Lockender Lorbeer. Sport und Spiel in der Antike, Staatliche Antikensammlungen München (Munich, 2004): 247, FIG.25.11 (PART)
    Yalouris, N. et al., Athletics in Ancient Greece (Athens, 1977): 37, FIG.14
    Yalouris, N., Olympia, Altis und Museum (Zurich, 1972): FIGS.108-109
    Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 188-189, FIGS.2-4, 193, FIG.7 (INCLUDING COLOUR AND DRAWING)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=1022
  • AVI Record Number: 907
  • LIMC ID: 5668
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73f3e79e00232-7
  • CAVI Collection: Athens, N.M. 15,499.
  • CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF dinos. From Pharsalos. Sophilos. Second quarter sixth. 580-570 (?).
  • CAVI Subject: Funeral games for Patroclus.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: In red: Above backs of horses on left: --]ι̣ος. Between the horses and the grandstand a right, diagonally down, and in two lines: Σοφ[ι]λος :* μ(ε)γραφσεν | Πατροϙλυς :* ατλα{1}. Both retr. To right of upper grandstand: Ἀχιλ[λ]ες, retr.{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} Beazley reads the iota of Sophilos, which I do not see in the photos, and wrongly renders the koppa as a kappa. The first epsilon added later. Threatte (1980), 22 and 260 wrongly reads Πατροκλυς with kappa (the ending explained as upsilon for ου, i.e. genit. Πατροκλους). {2} Threatte (1996), 235-36.
  • CAVI Comments: Shapiro (1989) says that Patroklys atla shows knowledge of the titles of sections of the Iliad. - Beazley read the first inscription also retr.: Σοφ̣[ιλος :* μεποιεσεν]. But it could be the name of a charioteer: Mon. Piot suggests [Σθενε]λ̣ος. Shapiro (1994) suggests Αντιλοχ]ος. Πατροϙλυς: on upsilon for ou, see AttScr (1990), 162. Perhaps Attic adaptation of the epic third declension. ατλα: tau for theta perhaps because of the following lambda; see Threatte (1980), 453; also J.-L. Perpillou, `Badly miswritten', REG 105 (1992) 557-60, citing S.T. Theodoresson, The Phonemic System of the Attic Dialect (1974). Αχιλ[λ]ες for Αχιλ[λ]ευς may be an alternate form; see Kretschmer (1894), 191-92. Further, AttScr (1990), 21 n. 4. All inscriptions are in red, I think.
  • CAVI Number: 0907
  • AVI Bibliography: Béquignon (1933), 44 ff., pl. 6; p. 47, fig. 7 (dr. of inscriptions). — Karouzou (1937), 134/31, pls. 52-53 (very good pictures). — Dev.[1] (1951), 18-19. — ABV (1956), 39/16, 681. — Arias–Hirmer–Shefton (1962), pl. 39. — Para. (1971), 18. — Philippaki (1974), fig. 22 (part, color). — Bakir (1981), 65/A 3 (cf. 6), pl. 6, fig. 10. — Roller (1981), 108, n. 9. — Simon–Hirmer (1981), pl. 50. — Jeffery (1984), 54. — Add.[2] (1989), 10 (much bibl.). — Shapiro (1989), 44, pl. 21,a. — AttScr (1990), no. 62, fig. 13. — Shapiro (1994), 35, fig. 18.
  • 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/541004
  • Coordinates: 39.298174,22.38327
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 39.28748,22.54271
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