340473, ATHENIAN, Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Switzerland, private, BS498

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Vase Number: 340473
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: HYDRIA
Date: -550 to -500
Inscriptions: Named: APOLLON, NEOPPTOLEMOS, EURYPYLOS
Named: HERAKLEES, ARES, ATHENAA, HERMEES
Attributed To: ANTIMENES P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: HERAKLES AND KYKNOS, FALLING WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, ARES, ATHENA, HERMES SEATED ON STOOL (ALL NAMED)
Shoulder: APOLLO, BODY OF HELIKANON, CHARIOTS, CHARIOTEER FALLING, NEOPTOLEMOS WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, ATHENA, DEVICE, THUNDERBOLT WITH ROSETTE (ALL NAMED)
Current Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: BS498
Previous Collections:
- Switzerland, private
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 119.35BIS
Burow, J., Der Antimenesmaler, Kerameus 7 (Mainz, 1989): PLS.128A, C, 129A-B, NO.131
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 70
Descoeudres, J-P. (ed.), Eumousia, Ceramic and Iconographic Studies in Honour of Alexander Cambitoglou (Sydney, 1990): PL.10.1-2 (S)
Kurtz, D. (ed.), Essays in Classical Archaeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou 1977-2007 (Oxford, 2008): 93, FIG.2 (PARTS OF SH)
Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 108, FIG.63 (PARTS OF S)
Snodgrass, A.M., An Archaeology of Greece, the present State and Future Scope of a Discipline (London, 1987): 143, FIGS.37-38(5)
Zardini, F., The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos, A Study in Greek Vase-Painting and Literature (Verona, 2009): 340-341, FIG.23 (BD)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2139
AVI Record Number: 2007
LIMC ID: 11585
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7447b9b6d24f5-e
CAVI Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum BS 498.
CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. Antimenes Painter. 530-520.
CAVI Subject: Shoulder: Aristeia of Neoptolemos (Little Iliad): Apollo striding to right, threatening with his bow to protect Helicaon; Helicaon (son of Antenor and son-in-law of Priam) lying dead to left (killed by Neoptolemos); chariot to left, with charioteer pierced by Neoptolemos' spear; Eurypylos (son of Telephos of Pergamum and nepherw of Priam) dead on ground to left (also killed by N.); chariot of Athena to left; Athena running to left (to support Neoptolemos). Body: A: Heracles and Cycnus, with Ares at right. B: Zeus seated between Hermes and Athena.
CAVI Inscriptions: Shoulder: to right of Apollo's bow, horizontal: Απολλον. Above the body of the dead Helicaon, bearing upward: h(ε)λικαον, retr.{1}. Charioteer being killed by Neoptolemos: Ιο[--]ς{2}. Behind N.'s back, at shoulder height, starting horizontal, the last five letters bending down and interrupted by the horses' legs of his chariot: Nεο{π}πτολε(μ){ο}ος{3}. Above the dead Eurypylos, diagonally upward: Ευρυπυλος, retr.{4}. Body: A: to right of Heracles' face, bearing upward: hερακλεες. Below Ares' left shoulder, diagonally downward: Αρες. B: above the seated Hermes' head, downward: hερμ(ε){ε}ς{5}. To left of Athena's lower body (she faces right), diagonally downward and facing her: Αθεναα, retr. [[see CAVI 7512]].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the epsilon unclear in the ph. {2} so Burow 42; not clear in ph. {3} my reading from the photo.: Burow reads Nεοππτολεμος and says that the last three letters are to the right of the horses' legs. But I see a trace of an extra letter to the left of the legs (that would be the mu) and two o's and a sigma to the right. {4} Burow's reading. {5} the second epsilon is only a trace. Odd that the inscription looks in the ph. as if written in a restored area.
CAVI Comments: Ex Swiss, Private. - The shoulder scene is from the Little Iliad. It was not previously known that Neoptolemos slew Helikaon (son of Antenor, son-in-law of Priam) and that Apollo terminated his aristeia. Würzburg 309 (ABV 268/28) part a replica and shows the same scene. - Decoration front and back is unusual and similar to Villa Giulia 3556. The writing seems compatible with the Antimenes Painter elsewhere.
CAVI Number: 2007
AVI Bibliography: BADB 45,078. — Para. (1971), 119/35 bis. — Snodgrass (1987), 143, figs. 37-38(5). — Add.[2] (1989), 70. — Burow (1989), 42, 62, 94/131, pls. 128,a,c and 129,a,b. — Shapiro (1990), 83ff., and n. 2 (bibl.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

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