Decoration: A,B: WEDDING OF PELEUS AND THETIS, KLINE IN BUILDING, DIONYSOS WITH THYRSOS, MAN WITH TORCHES, YOUTH PLAYING LYRE, BOTH DRAPED, WOMEN, ONE WITH TORCHES Shoulder: CENTAUROMACHY, KAINEUS, WARRIORS (ONE NAMED, PERITHOOS), SHIELD DEVICES, OCTOPUS, HINDQUARTERS OF LION, AND CENTAURS, ONE IN ANIMAL SKIN, ONE WITH ROCK, ONE FALLEN, ONE WITH TREE, APRON WITH EYE
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: SL1990.1.21
Previous Collections:
Germany, private
New York (N.Y.), private, Shelby White & Leon Levy Collection
Publication Record: Bothmer, D. von (ed.) Glories of the Past, Ancient Art from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Collection (New York, 1991): 168-170, NO.121 (INCLUDING COLOUR) Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 109, FIG.8-9 Eschbach, N. and Schmidt, S. (eds.), Töpfer, Maler, Werkstatt. Zuschreibungen in der griechischen Vasenmalerei und die Organisation antiker Keramikproduktion (Munich, 2016): 42, FIG.6 (A AND PART OF SH) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.172, PEIRITHOOS 4 (PART OF S), 205, PELEUS 210 (BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.205, PELEUS 210 (A,B, SIDES) Oakley, J.H., and Sinos, R.H., The wedding in ancient Athens (Madison, 1993): 112-114, FIGS.108-111 (A, B, SIDES) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 348, NO.109 Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 144, FIG.56 (A) Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 103, FIGS.68-69 (A, SIDE) Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 143, FIG.117 (COLOUR OF B)
CAVI Collection: NEW YORK, LEON LEVY AND SHELBY WHITE.
CAVI Lemma: RF POINTED NECK AMPHORA WITH STAND. COPENHAGEN PAINTER (GUY). SECOND QUARTER
FIFTH. CA. 470 (BOTHMER).
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: CENTAUROMACHY. BODY: WEDDING OF PELEUS AND THETIS: CONTINUOUS:
STARTING TO RIGHT OF THE BRIDAL CHAMBER: HOPLA (A WOMAN) TO RIGHT; SEMELE AND
DIONYSUS FACING; LETO, APOLLO AND ARTEMIS; THETIS LED BY PELEUS TO RIGHT (χειρ
επι καρπῳ); CHIRON STANDING TO LEFT AT THE ENTRANCE; THE BRIDAL CHAMBER WITH
KLINE, AND ALABASTRON AND SCARF HUNG UP; IN FRONT OF THE KLINE, PHILYRA WITH
TORCHES (MOTHER OF CHIRON).
CAVI Inscriptions: SHOULDER: THESEUS. PERITHOOS. KAINEUS. LAPITHAS{1}. THE CENTAURS ARE NOT
INSCRIBED. BODY: HOPLA{2}. CHIRON. PELEUS. THETIS. ARTEMIS. APOLLO. LETO.
SEMELE. DIONYSOS. PHILYRA{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} PERHAPS A VARIANT OF Λαπιθης, THE EPONYMOUS ANCESTOR OF THE LAPITHS. {2}
FEMALE; NOT ATTESTED. MAY BE CONNECTED WITH HOPLON, A LAPITH ON THE FRANCOIS
VASE (BOTHMNER). SEE ALSO O. AND S. 36 AND N. 105, WHO REFER TO HOPLON ON THE
FRANçOIS VASE; HOPLEUS IN HESIOD, ASPIS 180; AND AN ARCHON OF THE 3RD CENT. B.C.
(HESP. 40 (1971) 109-11). THEY THINK PERHAPS A REFERENCE TO THE ARMS OF
ACHILLES. CF. ALSO LGPN II, S.V. Οπλων (TWO ENTRIES). {3} THE MOTHER OF CHIRON
WHO HELPED TO BRING UP ACHILLES; ONLY FOUND HERE (BOTHMER).
CAVI Comments: BOTHMER ON P. 171 REFERS TO ANOTHER CENTAUROMACHY BY THE COPENHAGEN PAINTER,
ON A POINTED NECK AMPHORA, GERMANY, PRIVATE, PUBLISHED BY CAHN IN THE COPENHAGEN
SYMPOSIUM (1987) 107-57; THESEUS AND PERITHOOS ARE NAMED.
CAVI Number: 5757
AVI Bibliography: BOTHMER (1990), 168/121 (ILL.; NO BIBL.). — OAKLEY–SINOS (1993), 36-37, FIGS.
108-111.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
