Attributed To:Near HECTOR P by BEAZLEY PELEUS P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: MAN (NAMED) IN CHLAMYS AND PETASOS, WOMAN (NAMED) IN PILOS AND BRASSIERE WRESTLING WITH YOUTH (ATALANTE AND PELEUS), MAN (BOXING, NAMED, AMYKOS) POST, FIGURE WITH HELMET B: MOUND, ATHLETE (HERAKLES ?) WITH FILLETS, TRIPOD, JUDGES IN CHLAMYDES, SOME SEATED, ONE WITH STAFF, ONE NAMED, IDAS) ATHLETE (YOUTH, NAMED, POLYDEUKES)
Last Recorded Collection: Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina: 2865
Previous Collections:
Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina: T404
Publication Record: Alfieri, N. and Arias, P.E., Spina, Die neuentdeckte Etruskerstadt und die griechischen Vasen ihrer Gräber (Munich, 1958): PLS.96-97 (PARTS) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1039.9 , 1679 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 443 Berti, F. and Guzzo, P.G. (eds.), Spina, Storia di una citta tra Greci ed Etruschi (Ferrara, 1993): 113, FIG.95 (COLOUR OF PART) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.143 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 156 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 319 Childs, W., Greek Art and Aesthetics in the 4th Century B.C. (Princeton, 2018): FIG.259 (A) Classical Antiquity: 15 (1996) FIG.24 AT P.77 (A) Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica: SUPP. II.1, 547, FIG.612 (PART OF B) Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.38 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.109, HERAKLES 2803 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.165, LYNKEUS I ET IDAS 2 (B) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 114, PL.93 Nikephoros: 3 (1990) 326, FIG.18 Poliakoff, M. B., Combat Sports in the Ancient World, Competition, Violence and Culture (Yale, 1987): 71, FIG.70 (PART) Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 41, FIG.24 (B)
CAVI Collection: FERRARA, MUSEO NAZIONALE DI SPINA 2865.
CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF RF VOLUTE KRATER. FROM SPINA. PELEUS PAINTER. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
CAVI Subject: FUNERAL GAMES FOR PELIAS: A: BEFORE THE CONTESTS: ATALANTA AND PELEUS WITH
OTHER FIGURES (SEE INSCRIPTIONS). B: AFTER THE CONTESTS: A BEARDED VICTOR
(HERACLES?); AKASTOS SEATED AS JUDGE; POLYDEUKES VICTOR; PHERES SEATED (FELLOW
JUDGE); IDAS.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} PELEUS MISNAMED. {2} BOXER; MISNAMED. {3} BEING CROWNED. {4} STANDING;
THE COMPLEMENT [Ιδ]ας IS BEAZLEY'S; A FORMER SUGGESTION WAS [Πελι]ας.
CAVI Comments: = T 404. - ON A THE ARTIST HAS CONFLATED THE FIGHT AT THE GAMES WITH THE
FIGHT BETWEEN POLYDEUKES AND AMYKOS (BEAZLEY). FOR INSCRIPTIONS AND SUBJECT SEE
AJA 64. - MATHESON 229F. ALSO DISCUSSES THE SUBJECT WHICH HAS BEEN DISPUTED:
REVERSING A AND B, SHE SUGGESTS [Πηλι]ας RATHER THAN [Ιδ]ας FOR THE STANDING
FIGURE (IF THE INSCRIPTION REFERS TO HIM): THE SHADE OF THE DEAD MAN ATTENDING.
FOR B, MATHESON FOLLOWS KORSHAK WHO INTERPRETS THE SCENE AS THE FOOT RACE
BETWEEN HIPPOMENES AND ATALANTA; HIPPOMENES IS TYING HIS SANDAL RATHER THAN
WRESTLING. BUT THERE ARE DIFFICULTIES (AMYKOS DOES NOT FIT AND KLEOMOLPOS IS AN
UNKNOWN NAME); HENCE THE INTERPRETATION IS UNCERTAIN.
CAVI Number: 3472
AVI Bibliography: AURIGEMMA (1935), 204, PL. 108. — ARV[1] (1942), 696/25. — BEAZLEY (1950),
310-11 (IN GENERAL ON THE GAMES). — ALFIERI–ARIAS (1960), PLS. 96-97. — BEAZLEY
(1960), 221/III, PLS. 53,1,3 AND 54,1-7 (INSCRIPTIONS) (BIBL. N. 12). — ARV[2]
(1963), 1039/9, 1679. — PARA. (1971), 443. — KORSHAK SCHWARTZ (1973), 84-91. —
LIMC I (1981), PL. 597, AMYKOS 14; PL. 697 ATALANTA 73. — ROLLER (1981), 112. —
ADD.[2] (1989), 319. — BOARDMAN (1989), 143. — LIMC V (1990), PL. 109, HERACLES
2803; 465 HIPPOMENES 1. — MATHESON (1995), 110, *229-30 AND NN. 71-74, 438/PE12,
PL. 93 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
