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209545, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1894,0719.2

  • Vase Number: 209545
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: PHIALE
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS, SOTADES TOMB
  • Date: -500 TO -450
  • Inscriptions: SOTADES
    Signature: SOTADES EPOIE
  • Attributed To: SOTADES by SIGNATURE
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: D8
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1669
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 772
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 141
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 287
    Cohen, B. (ed.), The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 314, NO.97 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Fraser, J., Luxury and power, Persia to Greece, British Museum (London, 2023): 154, FIG.151 RIGHT (COLOUR OF PART)
    Miller, M.C., Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC, A study in cultural receptivity (Cambridge, 1997): PL.37 (A)
    Schierup, S. & Rasmussen, B.B. (eds.), Red-figure Pottery in its Ancient Setting, Gosta Enbom Monographs 2 (Copenhagen, 2012): 45, FIG.1 RIGHT (COLOUR OF PART)
    Tsingarida, A. with Kurtz, D. (eds.), Appropriating Antiquity, Saisir l'Antique (Brussels, 2002): 256, FIG.3 (COLOUR DRAWING OF PART)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4571
  • AVI Record Number: 4399
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1894-0719-2
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON D 8.
  • CAVI Lemma: PHIALE MESOMPHALOS. FROM ATHENS. UNATTRIBUTED. SOTADES, POTTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 460-450 (COHEN).
  • CAVI Subject: INSIDE WHITE WITH BLACK LIP AND BLACK NIPPLE.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: ON THE LIP, GR., NEAR-STOICH. LEFT-ALIGNED TWO-LINER: Σοταδες | εποιε.
  • CAVI Comments: AS BOSTON 98.886, ARV[2] 772/δ, BUT WITHOUT THE CICADA (BEAZLEY; THE INSCRIPTION SIMILAR BUT FRAGMENTARY). THE INSCRIPTION IS IN VERY THIN LINES, QUICKLY ENGRAVED, CLEAR AND SMALL, BUT NOT NEAT. THE VASE IS PART OF A SET, FROM ONE TOMB: SEE LONDON D 5. OMICRON ROUND AND RECTANGULAR; CF. LOUVRE CA 3825. ATTIC ALPHABET.
  • CAVI Number: 4399
  • AVI Bibliography: C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 392 (NOT ILL.). — ARV[2] (1963), 772/ε, 1669. — ADD.[2] (1989), 287. — COHEN (1991), 82, FIG. 60 (GOOD FOR INSCRIPTION). — ROBERTSON (1992), 185. — HOFFMANN (1997), 169 N. 26 (TOMB GROUP), 170/U2, FIGS. 102-103 (PH. OF SIDE AND PROFILE; 102 SHOWS INSCRIPTION).
  • 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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Last updated 28/12/2025 04:09:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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