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216556, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1864,1007.78

  • Vase Number: 216556
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KANTHAROS
  • Provenance: GREECE, RHODES, CAMIROS
  • Date: -450 TO -400
  • Inscriptions: Named: THESEUS, ANDROMACHE, ALEXANDRE, PHORBAS
  • Attributed To: ALEXANDRE GROUP by BEAZLEY
    ALEXANDRE P by LEZZI-HAFTER
  • Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, WARRIOR (NAMED THESEUS) AND AMAZON WITH AXE AND BOW (ANDROMACHE, NAMED)
    B: AMAZONOMACHY, AMAZON IN PATTERNED SUIT, WARRIOR, DEVICE, LION (BOTH NAMED)
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E157
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1213.2
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.225 (A, B)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 348
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 4, III.IC.6-III.IC.7, PLS.(227,228) 34.2A-B,35.1A View Whole CVA Plates
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.33.137 (PART OF B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.658, PHORBAS I 13 (B)
    Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 405, FIG.288 (A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4683
  • AVI Record Number: 4511
  • LIMC ID: 6656
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-7401EA5621856-9
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1864-1007-78
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON E 157.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF KANTHAROS. FROM CAMIROS. ALEXANDRE GROUP (BEAZLEY){1}; ALEXANDRE PAINTER (LEZZI-HAFTER). THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: AMAZONOMACHY: A: THESEUS AND ANDROMACHE. B: PHORBAS AND ALEXANDRE.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO RIGHT OF THESEUS' HELMET: Θεσευς. TO LEFT OF ANDROMACHE'S HEAD AND RAISED ARM: Ανδρομαχε{2}. B: TO RIGHT OF HER FOREHEAD: Αεξνδρε. I.E.: Α[λ]εξ[α]νδρε{3}. TO LEFT OF THE GREEK'S HELMET, AT SOME DISTANCE: Φορβας.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} AKIN TO THE ERETRIA PAINTER. {2} WRONGLY CITED AS Ανρομαχε BY KRETSCHMER (1894), 183-84 WITH REF. TO SALZMANN (1866–75), PL. 59. {3} CLEAR IN THE PHOTO, HENCE NOT [Α]λεξ[α]νδρε. BOTHMER READS: Αλεξ[α]νδρε.
  • CAVI Comments: MIXED ALPHABET.
  • CAVI Number: 4511
  • AVI Bibliography: H.B. WALTERS, CVA LONDON 4, GREAT BRITAIN 5 (1929), III I C, PL. 34,2A-B. — ARV[2] (1963), 1213/2. — LEZZI-HAFTER (1976), 93, 112/AL 1, PLS. 141-42. — ADD.[2] (1989), 348. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 1056, FIG. 137 (B, PART).
  • 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/589836
  • Coordinates: 36.336562,27.919521
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 36.336185,27.921195
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Last updated 15/12/2025 05:40:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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