Attributed To: GROUP E by UNKNOWN PHRYNOS P by MOMMSEN
Decoration: A: BIRTH OF ATHENA, ZEUS, HERA, EILEITHYIA, POSEIDON, HEPHAISTOS, GODDESS B: INTRODUCTION OF HERAKLES ON OLYMPOS (ZEUS, HERA ? HERMES, ATHENA, HERAKLES, POSEIDON, YOUTH WITH SPEAR, DEVICE, GORGONEION)
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: BS496
Previous Collections:
Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: 103.4
Publication Record: Angiolillo, S., Arte e cultura nell'Atene di Pisistrato e dei Pisistratidi (Bari, 1997): 52, 83, FIGS.25, 41 (A, I) Antike Kunst: 32 (1989), PL.27.2 (B) Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 70-71, FIGS.12A-B (COLOUR OF A AND B) Dietrich, N., Das Attribut als Problem, Eine bildwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur griechischen Kunst (Berlin, Munich, and Boston, 2018): 7, FIG.1.2 (DRAWING OF A) Ephemeris Archaiologike: 128 (1989) 106, FIG.1 (A, B) Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz: 8 (1961), 69, PL.37 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.745, ATHENA 353 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.462, HEPHAISTOS 193 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.247, ZEUS ADD.140 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.113, HERAKLES 2850 (A) Metis: 5 (1990) 1-2, 68, FIGS.7-8 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 42 (2007) 29, FIG.12 (B) NOTES FROM BEAZLEY ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC MOUNT(S): CF SOMEWHAT GENEVA [M]F154 [BEAZLEY] PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 9 (A, B, PART OF A) Schefold, K., Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art. English translation by A. Griffiths (Cambridge, 1992): FIGS.4, 37 (A, B) Schefold, K., Götter und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1978): 17, FIG.4 (A), 39, FIG.37 (B) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.47B (B) Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 78, FIG.37 (COLOUR OF A) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens, 2009): 83, FIG.3 (A) de La Geniere, J. (ed.), Hera, Images, espaces, cultes, Actes du Coll.Int.du Cent. de Rech. Archeologiques de l'Univ. de Lille III 1993 (Naples,1997): 104, FIGS.10-11 (A, PART OF A)
CAVI Subject: A: BIRTH OF ATHENA: IN THE CENTER, ZEUS SEATED WHILE GIVING BIRTH (ATHENA,
ARMED, SPRINGS FORTH FROM HIS HEAD); AT LEFT, HEPHAESTUS BETWEEN A GODDESS AND
AN EILEITHYIA; AT RIGHT, ANOTHER EILEITHYIA; HERA ENTHRONED; POSEIDON. B:
INTRODUCTION OF HERACLES INTO OLYMPUS: IN THE CENTER, ATHENA; AT LEFT, ZEUS,
HERA AND HERMES; AT RIGHT, HERACLES, POSEIDON, AND IOLAUS.
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: A: TO ATHENA'S LEFT, ABOVE ZEUS' HEAD AND OVER THE HEAD OF THE LEFT
EILEITHYIA: ενενενε. BETWEEN ATHENA'S SHIELD, ABOVE HERA'S HEAD AND TO LEFT OF
POSEIDON'S OUTSTRETCHED HAND: FOUR LETTERS, THE THIRD AN OMICRON{2}. B: BETWEEN
HERA'S AND HERMES' LOWER LEGS, FACING HERA: ευ(.)ν(ϝ)γ{3}. BETWEEN THE FACES OF
HERMES AND ATHENA: οτοε(γ)ενε(σ){4}. TO RIGHT OF HERACLES' FACE: εονενει, RETR.
BETWEEN ATHENA'S AND HERACLES' LOWER LEGS: ενε(σ)ενι. UNDER FOOT, GR.: Ε.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SEE MOMMSEN 137: BY THE SAME HAND AS WüRZBURG 241, WHICH BEAZLEY
ATTRIBUTED TO THE PHRYNOS PAINTER. M. IS NON-COMMITTAL ON HOW THE VASE IN BASEL
WOULD AFFECT THE WORK OF THE PHRYNOS PAINTER. {2} NOT LEGIBLE IN THE PHOTO. {3}
THE THIRD LETTER UNCLEAR IN THE PHOTO.; THE `DIGAMMA' PROBABLY A BADLY WRITTEN
EPSILON. {4} THE FIFTH LETTER UNCLEAR IN THE PHOTO. THE LAST PERHAPS A REVERSED
THREE-STROKE SIGMA.
CAVI Comments: DONE FROM THE PHOTOS IN AK, SINCE M. DOES NOT TRANSCRIBE THE INSCRIPTIONS.
CAVI Number: 2006
AVI Bibliography: LIMC II (1984), 987, ATHENA 353* (PL. 745). — LIMC III (1986), 687,
EILEITHYIA 6. — LIMC IV (1988), 646, HEPHAISTOS 193* (PL. 402); 691, HERA 288,
AND 714, HERA 461. — MALAGARDIS (1988A), 104-114. — H. MOMMSEN (1989), 134FF.
(FACS. OF GR., P. 134), PLS. 26,2,4, AND 27 (MUCH BIBL. IN N. 96). — LIMC V
(1990), 123, HERAKLES 2850*, HERMES 555. — LIMC VI (1992), MOIRAI 16.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
