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302028, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1836,0224.128

  • Vase Number: 302028
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: HYDRIA
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -550 to -500
  • Attributed To: A P by BEAZLEY
    LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body: AMAZONOMACHY, WARRIORS, ONE CARRYING BODY OF AMAZON (ACHILLES AND PENTHESILEA ?), AMAZON FALLEN, DEVICES, HEAD OF BULL, DISCS, IVY WREATH, TRISKELES
    Shoulder: WARRIORS, ONE ARMING WITH GREAVES, ONE HOLDING SHIELD, WOMAN WITH SPEAR, ARCHERS, ONE WITH AXE, DRAPED YOUTH WITH STAFF, DEVICES, DISCS, TRIPOD, LEG
  • Current Collection: London, British Museum: 1836.2-24.128
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 55 (2012), PL.6, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF BD)
    Arion: 1.2 (1991) 269, FIG.7 (BD)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 362.33, 355
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 161
    Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases: potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 64, FIG.83 (BD)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 96
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 6, III.H.E.7, PLS.(343,344) 84.3, 85.4 View Whole CVA Plates
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.234, PENTHESILEA 20 (PART)
    Mayor, A., The Amazons. Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (Princeton and Oxford, 2014): 301, FIG.18.5 (A)
    Osborne, R., Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Oxford History of Art (Oxford, 1998): 110, FIG.53 (BD)
    Ostraka: 9 (2000) 1, 35, FIG.6 (PART OF BD)
    Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 37, FIG.27 (BD)
    Schmidt, S. and Stähli, A. (eds.), Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer, Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum, Beiheft zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland V (Munich, 2012): 180, FIG.3 (BD)
    Shipley, L., Experiencing Etruscan Pots: Ceramics, Bodies and Images in Etruria (Oxford, 2015): 91, FIG.7.17 RIGHT (PART OF BD)
    Stampolidis, N.C. et al. (eds.), Beyond. Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece (Athens, 2014): 52, 58, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF BD AND OF PART OF BD)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4454
  • AVI Record Number: 4282
  • LIMC ID: 8790
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74202e61cce6f-e
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1836-0224-128
  • CAVI Collection: London B 323.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. From Vulci. Painter A (Leagros Group){1}. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
  • CAVI Subject: Shoulder: arming (6 warriors, a woman, and a youth). Body: Achilles(?) carrying the dead body of Penthesilea(?). At left, warrior and a fallen Amazon; at right, a warrior and an archer.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Body: Above the leftmost warrior: καλος. To right of Achilles' shield: σοιχχ{2}. Under the foot, Grr.: ligature of alpha with extended cross bar; ΜΕ; delta with a vertical through it, plus F: see Johnston (1979), 130/8E 49, 136/10E 26 (= Hackl (1909), no. 163), and 138/11E 41.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} see ABV 355. {2} Κριτι[ας] CVA, wrongly; see also Beazley in AJA.
  • CAVI Number: 4282
  • AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1929a), 363/4 (not ill.). — H.B. Walters, CVA London 6, Great Britain 8 (1931), III H e, pls. 84,3 and 85,4. — ABV (1956), 362/33. — Para. (1971), 161. — Add.[2] (1989), 96. — Robertson (1992), 36-37, fig. 27; cf. n. 115.
  • 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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