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206829, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 1959.176

  • Vase Number: 206829
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KRATER, CALYX
  • Date: -475 to -425
  • Inscriptions: Named: AIAS
    Named: AINEAS
  • Attributed To: ALTAMURA P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: ILIOUPERSIS, DEATH OF PRIAM, AT ALTAR, NEOPTOLEMOS WITH ASTYANAX, AJAX (NAMED) AND CASSANDRA AT STATUE OF ATHENA, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
    B: ILIOUPERSIS, AINEIAS (NAMED) AND ANCHISES, WARRIORS, SOME FIGHTING, WOMAN WITH BOX, SHIELD DEVICE, SNAKE, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
  • Current Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 59.178
  • Previous Collections:
    • Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1959.176
    • Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 59.176
  • Publication Record: Anderson, J.M., The Fall of Troy in Early Greek Poetry and Art (Oxford, 1997): 222-223, FIGS.5A-B (A, B)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 590.11
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 394
    Bielfeldt, R. (ed.), Ding und Mensch in der Antike. Gegenwart und Vergegenwärtigung (Heidelberg, 2014): 371, FIG.63 (PART OF A)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 129
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 264
    Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 121, FIG.2 (A)
    Cohen, A., Art in the Era of Alexander the Great, Paradigms of Manhood and their Cultural Traditions (Cambridge, 2010): 183, FIG.80 (A)
    Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indegni, Volume Quarto, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi 14-19 maggio 2001 (Rome, 2007): 17, FIG.1 (PART OF B)
    Holliday, P.J. (ed.), Narrative and Event in Ancient Art (Cambridge, 1993): 111, FIG.45 (A)
    Keuls, E.C., Painter and Poet in Ancient Greece, Iconography and the Literary Arts (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1997): 399, FIGS.47-48 (A, B)
    Kondoleon, C., Grossmann, R.A. et al., MFA Highlights, Classical Art (Boston, 2008): 65 (COLOUR OF A)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 834, 838, NOS.132, 217 (PARTS OF A AND B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.59, KREOUSA III 33 (B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.403, ILIOUPERSIS 13 (A, B)
    Lyons, D., Gender and Immortality, Heroines in Ancient Greek Myth and Cult (Princeton, 1997): 165, FIG.8 (PART OF A)
    Mangold, M., Kassandra in Athen, die Eroberung Trojas auf attischen Vasenbildern (Berlin, 2000): 52, 74, FIGS.30, 46 (A)
    Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 162-163, FIGS.92A-B (COLOUR OF A AND B)
    Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 71, FIG.9 (A)
    Oenbrink, W., Das Bild im Bilde (Frankfurt, 1997): 417, PL.5 LEFT (PART OF A)
    Platt, V., Facing the Gods, Epiphany and Representation in Graeco-Roman Art, Literature and Religion (Cambridge, 2011): 95, FIG.2.6 (PART OF A)
    Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PLS.15A, 32B, 63A (A, PART OF A, B)
    Stampolidis, N.C. et al. (eds.), Beyond. Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece (Athens, 2014): 23, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2949
  • AVI Record Number: 2801
  • LIMC ID: 247
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73a74a1e63b47-3
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 59.176.(1).
  • CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. Altamura Painter. Second quarter fifth. Ca. 470-460 (Beazley).
  • CAVI Subject: Iliupersis: A: Ajax and Cassandra; death of Priam; fight of two. B: Aeneas and Anchises.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: to left of Ajax' face: Αιας, retr. Above Priam's head: nonsense: λονιολ. B: Αινεα[ς]. To left of a woman: σοτν. To her right: αολδλ{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} i.e. 1959. {2} my note from CB says αλοδλ; in AttScr (1990), 102 n. 18, I give αολαλ.
  • CAVI Comments: "all the letters very rough and uncertain," CB; checked by Palmer and Chapman. Non vidi. Readings after CB.
  • CAVI Number: 2801
  • AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), iii, 61/159, pls. 92-95, suppl. pls. 22-23. — ARV[2] (1963), 590/11. — Para. (1971), 394. — Add.[2] (1989), 264 (much bibl.). — AttScr (1990), no. 646.
  • 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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