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214585, ATHENIAN, New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum, 08.258.21

  • Vase Number: 214585
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KRATER, CALYX
  • Date: -475 to -425
  • Inscriptions: Named: AIDES, PERITHOS, THESEUS, HERAKLES, HERMES, MELEAGROS, ELPENOR, AIAS, TALAMEDES, PERREPHATTA
    Named: ARTEMIS, APOLLON, LETO, TITYOS
  • Attributed To: NEKYIA P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A2: APOLLO AND TITYOS, FALLING, ARTEMIS, WOMAN
    AB1: HERAKLES (BEARDLESS), THESEUS AND PERITHOOS, BOTH SEATED, HERMES, MELEAGROS (ALL NAMED), HADES, DRAPED MEN AND YOUTHS, SOME WITH STAFFS, ONE WITH FILLET, WOMAN WITH ALABASTRON, PERSEPHONE SEATED (NAMED), COLUMNS
    B2: ZEUS AND GIANT (GIGANTOMACHY ?), WITH STONE, HERMES WITH STONE
  • Current Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 08.258.21
  • Publication Record: Abantos. Homenaje a Paloma Cabrera Bonet (Madrid, 2021): 798, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF PART OF AB1)
    Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): PL.6A (PART OF A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1086.1
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 449
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.184 (DRAWING)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 160
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.124 (PART OF A)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 327
    Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 243, FIG.200 (PART OF A1)
    Hopflinger, A-K., Schlangenkampf, Ein Vergleich von ausgewählten Bild- und Textquellen aus dem griechisch-römischen und dem altorientalischen Kulturraum (Zurich, 2010): 94, FIG.6 (B2)
    Journal of Hellenic Studies: 109 (1989), PL.3 C-D (PARTS OF A & B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.243, ZEUS ADD.98 (B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.212, MELEAGROS 44 (PART OF A1)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.176, PEIRITHOOS 73 (PART OF A1)
    Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 322, FIG.221 (B2)
    Saunders, D. (ed.), Underworld, Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting (Los Angeles, 2022): 2-3 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
    Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 184, FIG.223 (PART OF A)
    Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 162, FIG.143 (B1)
    Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 170, FIG.72 (PART OF A1)
    Smith, H.R.W., Funerary Symbolism in Apulian Vase-Painting, University of California Publications: Classical Studies Volume 12 (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, 1972): FIG.10 (DRAWING OF A AND B)
    Stampolidis, N.C. et al. (eds.), Beyond. Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece (Athens, 2014): 20, 28, 154-155, FIGS.1, 77- (COLOUR OF PARTS OF A, COLOUR OF A AND B)
    Vollkommer, R., Herakles in the Art of Classical Greece (Oxford, 1988): 24, FIG.33 (A1)
    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): 216, FIG.4 (DRAWING OF AB1)
    Walter-Karydi, E., Die Athener und ihre Gräber (1000-300 v.Chr.) (Berlin, 2015): 138, FIG.71 (PART OF AB1)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=5803
  • AVI Record Number: 5581
  • LIMC ID: 6344
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73fd781a21603-4
  • CAVI Collection: New York 08.258.21.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. Nekyia Painter. Third quarter fifth.
  • CAVI Subject: Upper zone: A-B: Heracles with Theseus and Perithous in Hades. Above the handles: {1} a youth and a woman clasping hands. {2} a man greeting a youth; a heap of branches. Lower zone: A: Apollo and Tityos. B: Zeus and a giant(?).
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Upper zone: A: above Hades' head: Αιδες{1}. Above the head of the seated Perithous: Περιθος. Above the seated Theseus' head: Θεσευς. Above Heracles' head: hερ(α)κλες{2}. To right of Hermes' helmet (he faces left): hερμες. Above the head of Meleager (in front view): Μελεαγρος. B: above the bearded Elpenor's head: Ελπενορ. Above Ajax' head: Αιας. Palamedes leans against a column in misery; above his head: Ταλαμεδες{3}. Persephone seated on a throne before a column: above her head and mostly to left: Περρεφαττ(α){2}. Lower zone: A: Artemis aiming her spear; to right of her forehead: (Α)ρτεμις{2}. Apollo aiming an arrow; similar: (Α)πολλον{2}. To right of Leto's forehead: Λετο. Above Tityos' head: Τιτυος. B: not inscribed. Under the foot, Gr.: Δ ΙΙΙ{4}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} note the absence of heta; is it `etymological'? {2} alpha lacks the cross stroke. {3} R-H 169 n. 6: "Τ for Π either by mistake or intentionally to suggest that Palamedes' wisdom brought him sorrow." {4} `arrow delta'.
  • CAVI Comments: The writing on B appears less careful than that on A; note that A has vertical lambda and B lambda leaning back. Attic alphabet.
  • CAVI Number: 5581
  • AVI Bibliography: Richter–Hall (1936), i, 168/135, pls. 135-37 and 170. — ARV[2] (1963), 1086/1 (much bibl.). — Para. (1971), 449. — Johnston (1979), p. 29. — Add.[2] (1989), 327 (much 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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