216945, ATHENIAN, New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum, 31.11.13

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Vase Number: 216945
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND (BD2)
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS, SQUAT
Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS
Date: -450 to -400
Attributed To: ERETRIA P by RICHTER
Decoration: Body 1: UNCERTAIN, CHARIOT, WOMEN, DRAPED MEN OR YOUTHS, ONE SEATED, ONE WITH SCEPTRE, SOME IN PATTERNED COSTUME, TREE
Body 2: ACHILLES SEATED ON CHAIR, MOURNING, PATROKLOS, ON KLINE, THETIS AND NEREIDS, SEATED ON DOLPHINS, WITH ARMS OF ACHILLES
Body 3: AMAZONOMACHY, THESEUS AND AMAZONS, ONE WITH PELTA, ONE FALLING, ONE SHOOTING ARROW, WARRIORS, SHIELD DEVICES, STAR, WREATH
Current Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 31.11.13
Publication Record: Angiolillo, S., and Giuman, M. (eds.), Imago, Studi di iconografia antica (Cagliari, 2007): 42, FIG.16 (PART OF BD2)
Barringer, J.M., Divine Escorts, Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 1995): PLS.22-24
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1248.9 , 1688
Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 469
Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.231 (PARTS)
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 353
Cohen, B., The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 112, FIG.5 (COLOUR OF PART)
Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 522-523, FIG.437 (DRAWING OF BD3)
Froning, H., Hölscher, T., and Mielsch, H. (eds.), Kotinos, Festschrift für Erika Simon (Mainz, 1992): PL.49.1-2 (PARTS)
Kurtz, D.C. (ed.), Greek Vases, Lectures by J.D. Beazley (Oxford, 1989): PL.23.1 (DRAWING)
Lapatin, K. (ed.), Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Proceedings of a symposium held in connection with the exhibition The Colours of Clay: Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006 (Los Angeles, 2008): 62, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF PART)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.31, EUPLOIA 1, EUPOLIS I 1 (PARTS)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.494, NEREIDES 331 (PART OF BD2)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.434, PSAMATHE 3 (PART)
Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): 215, FIG.73C, PLS.150-155, NO.239 (INCLUDING PROFILE)
Marconi, C. (ed.), Greek Vases: Images, Contexts and Controversies (Leiden and Boston, 2004): FIG.5.9 (PART OF BD2)
Mayor, A., The Amazons. Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World (Princeton and Oxford, 2014): 230, FIG.13.6 (PART OF BD3)
Medelhavsmuseet, the Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Bulletin, Stockholm: 25 (1991) 26, FIG.7 (PART OF BD2)
Metropolitan Museum Journal: 24 (1989), 58, FIG.2 (PART)
Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 408-409, FIG.291 (DRAWING OF BD3)
Picon, C.A., Mertens, J.R., et al., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome (New York, 2007): 128-129, NO.142 (COLOUR OF BD2 AND PART OF BD)
Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 232-233, FIGS.239-240 (INCLUDING PART)
Salvadori, M. and Baggio, M. (eds.), Gesto-immagine, tra antico e moderno, riflessioni sulla comunicazione non-verbale, giornata di studi, Isernia, 18 Aprile 2007 (Rome, 2009): 22, FIG.6 (PART OF BD2)
Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 217, FIG.192 (PART)
Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 137, FIG.54 (PART OF BD3)
Walter-Karydi, E. (ed.), Myths, Texts, Images, Homeric epics and ancient Greek art, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Odyssey, Ithaca, September 15-19, 2009 (Ithaca, 2010): 225, FIG.10 (PART OF BD2)
Walter-Karydi, E., Die Athener und ihre Gräber (1000-300 v.Chr.) (Berlin, 2015): 153, FIG.82 (PART OF BD2)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=5879
AVI Record Number: 5656
LIMC ID: 10251
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7434cfa4a53de-3
CAVI Collection: New York 31.11.13.
CAVI Lemma: RF/WG squat lekythos (tallboy). From Athens. Eretria Painter. 430-420. Ca. 420 (Richter).
CAVI Subject: Three zones: Top (RF, fragmentary): uncertain subject: a man in a chariot abducting a woman, with six divinities. Middle, WG: Achilles mourning for Patroclus, and the bringing of the armor by Thetis and Nereids. Bottom, RF: Theseus and the Amazons.
CAVI Inscriptions: Richter–Hall: Middle: mostly above the heads: Αχιλλευς̣. Πατροκλος. Κλυμενη. Ψαμ̣αθη̣. [Θ]ετις. Γαλ[ατ]ε(α){1}. Ευπ(.)[--]{2}. Κ[υμοδοκ]η̣{3}. Bottom: Μιμνοσα{4}. Ε[υ]μαχη. [Αλκ]αν[δρος]. Κ[λυ]μενη. Θησευς. Ιππολυτη. Φα[λη]ρος. Χαροπ̣η. Αμυνομενη. Ευπο[λ]ις. Δωρις. Ευδω[ρ]ο[ς]. Εχεφυλη{5}. According to L.-H.: Middle: ... Ψαμαθ̣η̣. The sixth Nereid: Γαλ[η]νη̣{6}. The seventh: Ευ[--]{7}. The last: Κ[--]{8}. Bottom zone: ... Ε[υ]μα̣χ̣η. [--]ο[--]. No name for the fourth figure. Α[..]αν[--]. No name for the sixth figure. Κ[λ](υ)με̣νη. No name for the ninth figure. Ιππο[λ]υτη̣. [--]ρος. Χαροπη. No name for figure 13. Δορις [sic]. Ευδωρ̣ος. ... [The names not mentioned here are = the readings from R.-H.]
CAVI Footnotes: {1} The last alpha of Galatea lacks the cross stroke. {2} Ευπλ̣[οια](?), rather than Eupompe, Richter. The fourth letter preserves the tip of a slightly diagonal down-stroke, suitable for an Attic lambda. {3} Richter: restored after the pyxis, London E 774, by the Eretria Painter. But R. reads the last letter wrongly as epsilon. {4} See Beazley (1947). {5} Bothmer's readings; they supersede Richter's. {6} L.-H. wrongly restores an epsilon. She prefers Galene to Richter's Galateia. {7} Ευ[πλοια] or Ευ[λιμενη]. {8} Κ[υμω](?). Richter restored K[ymodoke], but L.-H. thinks there is not enough space.
CAVI Comments: Bottom zone: L.-H., fig. 81, draws the inscriptions in relation to the figures, mostly horizontal and mostly above the heads, but sometimes to right of the figures. The inscriptions in the lower zone are hard to read. Ionic alphabet.
CAVI Number: 5656
AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1935), 485/16. — Richter–Hall (1936), i, 175/139, pls. 143-44 and 176. — Beazley (1947), 241. — Bothmer (1957), 162/15, pl. 77,1. — ARV[2] (1963), 1248/9 (much bibl.), 1688. — Para. (1971), 469. — Brommer (1973), 215/B 9, 356/B 4, 368/B 9. — Cramers (1980), fig. 87. — Lezzi-Hafter (1988), 147-48, 227-32 (esp. 228) 229, fig. 81 (drs. of inscriptions, bottom zone), 343/239, pls. 150-55 (pls. 152-53 show some of the WG inscriptions) (much bibl.). — Add.[2] (1989), 353 (bibl.). — Beazley (1989), pl. 23,1. — Boardman (1989), fig. 231,1-2. — AttScr (1990), no. 795. — Robertson (1992), 231m figs. 239-240.
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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