Attributed To: KOLCHOS POTTER by SIGNATURE LYDOS by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: HERAKLES AND KYKNOS, ARES, ZEUS, ATHENA, BETWEEN CHARIOTS, CHARIOTEERS IN NEBRIDES, NAMED, IOLAOS AND PHOLOS (?), POSEIDON, DRAPED YOUTH WITH FLOWER ALL NAMED, KALLIPHORA, HALIOS GERON (?) Frieze below: ANIMAL FRIEZE, LIONS, ATTACKING BOAR, DEER, PANTHERS, DEER, LIONS ATTACKING BULL
Current Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: F1732
Previous Collections:
Berlin, privete, Eduard Gerhard
Berlin, Pergamonmuseum: F1732
Publication Record: Backe-Dahmen, A. et al., Greek Vases, Gods, Heroes and Mortals (London and Berlin, 2010): 28-30, NO.12 (COLOUR OF BD AND PART OF FB) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 110.37, 685 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 44, 48 Bentz, M. (ed.), Vasenforschung und Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Standortbestimmung und Perspektiven, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum I (Munich, 2002): 137, FIG.8 (DETAIL) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 30 Classical Antiquity: 8 (1989) 93, FIG.2, PL.3 AT 115 (DRAWING AND PART OF BD) Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): II, PLS.122-123 (COLOUR DRAWINGS) Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.18L-M (PARTS) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIGS.65-66 (PARTS) 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): 103, 292, FIGS.78, 231 (PART OF BD, UH) Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Griechische Vasen als Medium für Kommunikation. Ausgewählte Aspekte. Akten des internationalen Symposiums im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien, 5.-7. Oktober 2017. CVA Österreich, Beiheft 3 (Vienna, 2021): 147-149, 152, FIGS.1-7 (COLOUR. PROFILE) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.237, HALIOS GERON 1 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.330, PHOBOS 2 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.367, POSEIDON 167 (PART) Robinson, D., and Wilson, A. (eds.), Alexandria and the North-Western Delta, Joint Conference Proceedings of Alexandria, City and Harbour (Oxford 2004) and The Trade and Topography of Egypt's North-West Delta, 8th century BC to 8th century AD (Berlin 2006) (Oxford, 2010): 28, FIG.3.2 (PART OF BD) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.30C-D (BD) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 210-211, FIGS.170-171 (PART, DRAWING) Zardini, F., The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos, A Study in Greek Vase-Painting and Literature (Verona, 2009): 342, FIG.24, COLOUR PLATE 3 (PART OF BD AND FB, COLOUR)
CAVI Lemma: BF oinochoe. From Vulci. Lydos (?), or a close imitation (Para. 48). Cholchos
(Kolchos), potter. Ca. 540. Late, mannered (Beazley, ABV).
CAVI Subject: Heracles and Cycnus.
CAVI Inscriptions: To right of Nereus: hαλιος γερον. Below: Χολχος | μεποιεσεν. Ιολ[αος] or
[-εος]. [Ποσ]ειδον. Αθ[ε]ναια. hερακλες. Very small: (Κ)υκ(ν)ος. Α[ρ]ες, retr.
To left of charioteer: Φολος, retr. ΗΟΚΜ....Σ̣ (name of horse). Another horse:
[--]γορα or [--]γορα[ς]. [Α]πολ[λ]ον. Διονυσος, retr.
CAVI Comments: Berlin East. A trick vase, see ABV 685. Furtw. read Φο[β]ος for the name of
the charioteer (and this was accepted by Beazley in Proc.), but the lambda is
clear in a photo. Φολος is given in Pape as the name of a son of Silenus killed
by Heracles. For the Kyknos story see Shapiro, pp. 64 n. 159 and 115. Zeus seems
to appears in the scene. Tiverios 85-86 reaffirms the attribution to Lydos. The
vase is discussed also by Shapiro (1984), 525 and n. 25, pl. 66, fig. 2 (dr.
after AJA 26 (1922) 181 (v. small)).
