Decoration: A: BIRTH OF ATHENA, ZEUS SEATED ON CHAIR WITH HORSE PROTOMAI, BETWEEN EILEITHYIAI, HERMES AND ARES, SHIELD DEVICE, TRIPOD B: HERAKLES AND THE LION BETWEEN ATHENA AND IOLAOS (WARRIOR) HOLDING CLUB
Last Recorded Collection: Richmond (VA), Museum of Fine Arts: 60.23
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 56.48TER Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.100 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 36 Ephemeris Archaiologike: 128 (1989) 109, FIG.4 (A) Etienne, R. and Le Dinahet, M-T., L'espace sacrificiel dans les civilisations mediterraneennes de l'antiquite (Paris, 1991): PL.78D (A) Korshak, Y., Frontal Faces in Attic Vase Painting of the Archaic Period (Chicago, 1977): 137, FIG.84 (A) Neils, J. et al., Goddess and Polis, The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens (Princeton, 1992): 15, 144-145, NO.1 (COLOUR OF A, PART OF A, B) 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): 99, FIG.5 (A)
CAVI Collection: RICHMOND, VA, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 60.23.
CAVI Lemma: BF AMPHORA. GROUP E. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
CAVI Subject: A: BIRTH OF ATHENA: IN THE CENTER, ZEUS SEATED FRONTALLY; AT LEFT, HERMES AND
EILEITHYIA(?); AT RIGHT, HERA AND ARES. B: HERACLES AND THE LION, BETWEEN ATHENA
AND IOLAUS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: NONSENSE: IMITATION: ON HERA'S LOWER RIGHT: A ROW OF 9 BLOTS, SOME
RESEMBLING LETTERS. ON ARES' LOWER RIGHT: 9 BLOTS.
CAVI Comments: B IS NOT INSCRIBED.
CAVI Number: 6924
AVI Bibliography: PARA. (1971), 56/48 TER. — ADD.[2] (1989), 36. — NEILS (1992A), 145/1,
COLORED PL. ON P. 144 (A), B&W AT P. 145 (B) (MUCH BIBL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
