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204695, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, G153

  • Vase Number: 204695
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP, FRAGMENTS
  • Date: -500 to -450
  • Inscriptions: HIERON
    Named: NEOPTOLE]MOS, [P]OLYCHSEN[E]
    Signature: HIERON.EPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: HIERON by SIGNATURE
    MAKRON by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: SACRIFICE OF POLYXENE, NEOPTOLEMOS (BOTH NAMED), WITH SWORD, MEN, SOME DRAPED, WITH SPEARS
    B: MEN, SOME DRAPED, WITH SPEARS, ONE WITH SCEPTRE
    I: RANSOM OF HEKTOR, ACHILLES RECLINING WITH KNIFE, BODY OF HEKTOR UNDER KLINE, SHIELD DEVICE, GORGONEION
  • Current Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: G153
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 460.14, 481
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 212.8
    Bonnechere, P., and Gagne, R. (eds.), Sacrifices humains, Perspectives croisees et representations, Human sacrifice, Cross-cultural perspectives and representations (Liege, 2013): PL.8A (A)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 120
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 244
    Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 786, FIG.305 (I)
    Giuliani, L., Image and myth, a history of pictorial narration in Greek art (Chicago, 2013): 153, FIG.35 (I)
    Hedreen, G., Capturing Troy, The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 2001): FIG.11 (B)
    Journal of Hellenic Studies: 117 (1997) PL.8B (I)
    Kunisch, N., Makron (Mainz, 1997): 67, FIG.30.169, PL.61.169 (I, A, B, AH)
    Kurtz, D.C. (ed.), Greek Vases, Lectures by J.D. Beazley (Oxford, 1989): 69.1-2, 70.1 (A, B, I)
    Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 23 (1994) 42, FIG.7 (I)
    Pottier, E., Vases antiques du Louvre (Paris, 1897-1922): I, PL.122
    Revue des Etudes Anciennes: 99 (1997) 2, 87, FIG.10 (A)
    Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst: Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 863, DADA257 (I)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6727
  • AVI Record Number: 6491
  • LIMC ID: 11173
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7441d97cee1ae-d
  • CAVI Collection: Paris, Louvre G 153.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Italy. Makron. First quarter fifth. Hauptwerk I (Kunisch).
  • CAVI Subject: Int.: Achilles with the body of Hector. A-B: Sacrifice of Polyxena.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: Neoptolemus and Polyxena alone have their names inscribed (Beazley). The drs. show two frs. only (probably from Pottier?): Ext.: to left of head of warrior to right: [Nεοπτολε]μος. To right and left of woman's head to right: [Π]ολοχσε^ν[ε], retr.{1}. On handle A/B, in the right hasta, in red: [h]ιερον [επ]οιεσεν{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} so my note; for [Π]ολυχσεν[ε]. {2} from the sketch, Kunisch, p. 178, but there is no indication that an initial heta is lost (complete fore?]. A single interpoint between the words is shown in ARV[2] and is accepted by Cohen, n. 142, who lists two examples of double interpoints in Hieron signatures. Kunisch 8 n. 38 however thinks the inscription is too poorly preserved to be sure of this. ARV[2] also states that the signature is in red, with reference to Bull. Vereen. 29, 12-15.
  • CAVI Comments: + Florence no no. (Guy). Type B. For the signatures of Hieron, see the bibliography under Louvre G 141. For the Dip. signatures see esp. Cohen 70 and n. 128 and Kunisch 8. Attic alphabet with four-stroke sigma. Another signature of Hieron in red mentioned in ARV[2] is Florence 3929 (460/15).
  • CAVI Number: 6491
  • AVI Bibliography: drs. — Beazley (1954b), 12-15. — ARV[2] (1963), 460/14, 481. — Add.[2] (1989), 244 (bibl.). — Beazley (1989), 89-90, pls. 69,1-2, 70,1. — Cohen (1991), 93 n. 142. — LIMC vii (1994), 433, Polyxene 24. — Papadakis (1994), 91/A 52; 100f.; 137/B 31; 155f. — Kunisch (1997), 6, 8 n. 38, 100 n. 402, 127 n. 592, 178/169, pl. 61.
  • 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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