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200977, ATHENIAN, Berlin, Antikensammlung, Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, F2279

  • Vase Number: 200977
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -525 to -475
  • Inscriptions: ATHENODOTOS
    Kalos/Kale: ATHENODOTOS KALOS
    PEITHINOS
    Signature: PEITHINOS EGRAPHSEN
  • Attributed To: PEITHINOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A: EROTIC (COURTING), YOUTHS, ARYBALLOI, SPONGES AND STRIGILS SUSPENDED
    B: COURTING, DRAPED YOUTHS AND WOMEN
    I: PELEUS AND THETIS, SNAKES, LION
    Under handle 1: DOG
    Under handle 2: STOOL WITH LION SKIN
  • Current Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: F2279
  • Previous Collections:
    • Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg: F2279
  • Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 85 (1981) PL.26, FIGS.7-10 (A,B)
    Antike Kunst: 49 (2006) PL.5.3-5 (PARTS OF A)
    Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1994, 359, FIG.8 (I)
    Backe-Dahmen, A. et al., Greek Vases, Gods, Heroes and Mortals (London and Berlin, 2010): 100-101, NO.51 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
    Barringer, J.M., The Hunt in ancient Greece (Baltimore and London, 2001): 104, FIG.64 (A, UH1, UH2)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 115.2, 1626, 1567
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 81
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 49.5, 468
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 332
    Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland: IV (2009) 162, FIG.2 (PART OF A)
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.214 (I, PARTS OF A & B)
    Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases: potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 225, FIG.245 (PART OF A)
    Boardman, J., and LaRocca, E., Eros in Greece (London, 1978): 92-3 (I,A,B, PART OF A)
    Brule, P., Women of Ancient Greece (Edinburgh, 2003): 187 (A, B)
    Bulletin of the Walters Art Gallery: APRIL 1995, 5, FIG.2 (I)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 86
    Cairns, D. (ed.), Body language in the Greek and Roman worlds (Swansea, 2005): 67, FIG.7 (DRAWING OF A)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 174
    Charbonneaux, J., Martin, R., and Villard, F., Archaic Greek Art (London, 1971): 334, FIGS.383-84 (I,A)
    Cohen, A. and Rutter, J.B. (eds.), Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy, Hesperia Supplement 41 (Princeton, 2007): 98, FIG.4.5 (PART OF A)
    Colpo, I. and Ghedini, F. (eds.), Il gran poema delle passioni e delle meraviglie, Ovidio e il repertorio letterario e figurativo fra antico e riscoperta dell'antico, Atti del convegno (Padova, 15-17 settembre 2011) (Padova, 2012): 249, FIG.4 (I)
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIQUARIUM 2, 16-18, PLS.(989,990) 60.1-4, 61.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIQUARIUM 3, 19, PLS.(1051,1063) 122. 2.6, 134.3 View Whole CVA Plates
    Cottam, S. et al. (eds.), TRAC 94, Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference Durham 1994 (Oxford, 1994): 127, FIG.13.3 (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
    Dietrich, N. and Squire, M. (eds.), Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art, Rethinking visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity (Berlin and Boston, 2018): 158, FIG.6.7 (A AND UH)
    Dover, K., Greek Homosexuality (London, 1978): R196 (PART OF A & B)
    Duby, G., Perrot, M. (eds.), Histoire des femmes (Plon, 1991): 233, FIG.50 (DRAWING OF A AND B)
    Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 348-349, FIGS.199A-C (PARTS OF A AND B, I)
    Franceschini, M., Attische Mantelfiguren: Relevanz eines standardisierten Motivs der rotfigurigen Vasenmalerei. Zürcher archäologische Forschungen Band 5 (Rahden, 2018): PLS.1E, 8B (COLOUR OF A, PART OF B)
    Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): III, 20 (DETAIL A-B)
    Gehrig, U., Greifenhagen, A., and Kunisch, H., Führer durch die Antikenabteilung (Berlin, 1968): PL.71 (I)
    Gerhard, E., Griechische und etruskische Trinkschalen des Königlichen Museums zu Berlin (Berlin, 1843): PLS.9.1, 14-15
    Hartwig, P., Die griechischen Meisterschalen (Stuttgart, 1893): PLS.24.1, 25
    Hedreen, G., The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece: Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity (Cambridge, 2016): 281-282, FIG.61-62, PL.25 (A, B, COLOUR OF I)
    Heilmeyer, W-D. et al., Antikenmuseum Berlin, Die ausgestellten Werke (Berlin, 1988): 110, LEFT, 112, NO.1 (I)
    Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 182, FIG.112 (I)
    Henle, J., Greek Myths: a Vase Painter's Notebook (Indiana, 1973): 20, FIG.12 (I)
    Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 71 (2002) 341, FIG.14 (A, B, I)
    Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): II, 335
    Johns, C., Sex or Symbol, Erotic Images of Greece and Rome (London, 1982): 99, FIG.82 (PART OF A)
    Journal of Hellenic Studies: 130 (2010) 115, FIG.3 (I)
    Journal of the Walters Art Gallery: 55-56 (1997/98) 30, FIG.4 (A)
    Junker, K., Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths, An Introduction (Cambridge, 2012): 13, FIG.4 (I)
    Keuls, E., The Reign of the Phallus (New York, 1985): 56, FIG.37, 222, FIGS.196-7 (I,A,B)
    Kilmer, M.F., Greek Erotica on Attic Red-Figure Vases (London, 1993): PLS. AT P.146, R196 (A, B)
    Knittlmayer, B. and Heilmeyer, W-D., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Die Antikensammlung, Altes Museum - Pergamonmuseum (Mainz, 1998): 69, NO.32 (COLOUR OF I)
    Krieger, X., Der Kampf zwischen Peleus und Thetis (Münster, 1975): PL.4C (I)
    Kunze, M. et al., Die Antikensammlung im Pergamonmuseum und in Charlottenburg, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin, 1992): 272, NO.147 (COLOUR OF I)
    Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 256, FIG.203 (B)
    Lear, A., and Cantarella, E., Images of ancient Greek pederasty, Boys were their gods (London and New York, 2008): 133, FIG.3.18A-B (A, B, UH1, UH2)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.9, THETIS 13 (I)
    Lindblom, A., Take a Walk on the Wild Side. The Behaviour, Attitude and Identity of Women Approached by Satyrs on Attic Red-Figure Vases from 530 to 400 B.C. (Stockholm, 2011): 266, FIG.A (COLOUR OF I)
    Marcade, J., Eros Kalos (Geneva, 1962): 76-7 (I, PARTS OF I)
    Mediterranean Archaeology: 17 (2004) PL.22.1 (I)
    Mediterranean Archaeology: PL.21.3 (PART OF A)
    Morford, M. et al., Classical Mythology, International Ninth Edition (Oxford, 2011): 485 (I)
    Neugebauer, K., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Führer (1932): PL.49.1 (I)
    Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 20 (1991) 23, PL.1 (DRAWING OF I)
    Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 150, FIG.5C (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
    Osborne, R., The Transformation of Athens Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (Princeton and Oxford, 2018): 129, FIG.5.5-6, PL.21 (A, B, COLOUR OF A)
    Panto, G. (ed.), I modi dell'Eros. Reperti archeologici a tema erotico del Museo di Antichita di Torino (Turin, 2011): 42, UNNUMBERED (COLOUR OF A AND B)
    Peltz, U., Nagel, Stifte, Niete, Befestigungstechnik im samischen Heraion (Oxford, 2011): FIG.12 (PART OF A, UH2)
    Perrot, G., Chipiez, C., Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquite, vols. IX-X (Paris, 1911-14): X, 515-17 (I, B)
    Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.417 (I, PART OF A)
    Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIG.417 (PART OF A)
    Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): FRONTISPIECE, 298, 341, 343, NO.106 (A, B, COLOUR OF I AND PART)
    Reinsberg, C., Ehe, Hetärentum und Knabenliebe im antiken Griechenland (Munich, 1989): 168, 208, FIGS.91, 117 (B, PART OF A)
    Richlin, A. (ed.), Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (Oxford, 1992): 57, FIG.3.2 (PART OF A)
    Robson, J., Sex and sexuality in Classical Athens (Edinburgh, 2013): 250, FIG.7 (PART OF A)
    Sanchez, C., Kunst und Erotik in der Antike (Berlin, 2013): 119, FIG.49 (PART OF A)
    Schefold, K., Götter und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1978): FIG.257 (I)
    Schmidt, S. and Steinhart, M. (eds.), Sammeln und Erforschen, Griechische Vasen in neuzeitlichen Sammlungen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Band VI (Munich, 2014): 106, FIG.4 (I)
    Seki, T., Untersuchung zum Verhaltnis von Gefässform und Malerei attischer Schalen (Berlin, 1985): PL.17.1-3 (I,A,B, UNDERNEATH)
    Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 111-112, FIGS.76-77 (A, B)
    Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.55E (A)
    Stewart, A., Art, Desire, and the Body in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 1997): 158-159, FIGS.95-97 (I, A, B)
    Vanhove, D. (ed.), El deporte en la Grecia antigua, la genesis del olimpismo, May 10 - August 9, 1992 (Barcelona, 1992): 73, FIG.14 (B)
    Vanhove, D. (ed.), Le Sport dans la Grece Antique, Du Jeu a la Competition, 23 Janvier- 19 Avril 1992 (Gent, 1992): 73, FIG.14 (A)
    Visual Past. A Journal for the Study of Past Visual Cultures. Special Issue: Visual Narratives, Cultural Identities: 3.1 (2016) 173, FIG.5 (COLOUR OF A)
    Wannagat, D., Der Blick des Dichters, Antike Kunst in der Weltliteratur (Darmstadt, 1997): 234 (I)
    Yoshikawa, I., Special Exhibition of Ancient Greek Vases from Japanese Collections (Nara, 1988): 12 TOP (B)
    Zenzen, N., Das edle Ungeheuer: Die Semantik des Löwen in Bildwerken des antiken Vorderen Orients und Griechenlands, Tübinger Archäologische Forschungen 26 (Rahden, 2018): 410, FIG.183 (I)
    van der Meer, L.B., Interpretatio Etrusca, Greek Myths on Etruscan Mirrors (Amsterdam, 1995): 34, FIG.10 (DRAWING OF I)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2470
  • AVI Record Number: 2325
  • LIMC ID: 337
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73a86ee9808d7-f
  • CAVI Collection: Berlin 2279.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci. Peithinos. Ca. 500{1}.
  • CAVI Subject: Int.: Peleus and Thetis. A: youths and boys. B: youths and women.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: to Peleus' left: [Π]ελευς. To Thetis' right: Θεθις, for Θετις. Around them: Π[ε]ιθινος εγραφσεν. Αθενοδοτος καλος. A: at left, above a single youth, on the left: καλος. At right: καλ[ος], retr.{2}. Four pairs of male lovers: by the first: hο παις, [ν]αιχι. To right of the second pair: καλος. Above the third pair: hο παις καλος. The fourth pair not inscribed. B: three pairs of youth and girl: first pair, above youth: καλος. To left of girl: καλε, retr. To left and above youth of second pair: καλος. Below: να[ι]χι, retr. To right: καλος. I.e.: καλος, να[ι]χι καλος. To left of girl's head: καλε, retr. To left of youth's head in third pair: καλο[ς]. Below it: κολαν{3}. To left of girl: καλε.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} In Proc. Brit. Acad. Beazley dated the vase in the late sixth, but in ARV[2] he says this is too early. Neugebauer dates shortly before 500. {2} a trace of the omicron? {3} so Furtw., text (there are no facss. for the exterior); probably misread for retr. ναιχι(?).
  • CAVI Comments: Done from Furtw. - Robertson analyzes the style and dates it to the post-Pioneer generation (kalos-name Athenodotus; ornamentation, etc.), but the style was formed under Pioneer influence.
  • CAVI Number: 2325
  • AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 8283. — Furtwängler (1885), no. 2279 (some facs.). — ARV[2] (1963), 115/2 (much bibl.), 1626. — Para. (1971), 332. — Add.[2] (1989), 174 (much bibl.). — Robertson (1992), 40-41.
  • 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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