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305095, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, Athens, National Museum, Athens, National Museum, Athens, National Museum, 15942

  • Vase Number: 305095
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KRATER (?), FRAGMENT
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATTICA, MENIDI
  • Date: -600 TO -550
  • Inscriptions: SOPHILOS
    Signature: [SOPH]ILOS MEPOESEN
  • Attributed To: SOPHILOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A1: UNCERTAIN, CHARIOT, SNAKE, WOMAN (?) IN SANDALS
    AB2: ANIMAL FRIEZE, LION, PANTHERS, SIRENS
    B1: CENTAUROMACHY, CENTAURS (?), ONE FALLEN, HERAKLES, BOW
  • Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum: 2035.1
  • Previous Collections:
    • Athens, National Museum: 15942
    • Athens, National Museum: 15918
    • Athens, National Museum: 2035.2
  • Publication Record: Bakir, G., Sophilos (Mainz, 1981): 11, FIG.7, PLS.8-10, FIGS.15-20 (INCLUDING DRAWING)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 40.21, 42.36
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 18
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 11
    Carter, J.B. and Morris, S.P. (eds.), The Ages of Homer, A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule (Austin, 1995): 366, FIG.21.4
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ATHENS, MUSEE NATIONAL 1, III.H.EFGH.3, PL.(09) 1.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates
    Grabow, E., Schlangenbilder in der griechischen schwarzfigurigen Vasenkunst (Paderborn, 1998): PL.13.62
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.443, KENTAUROI ET KENTAURIDES 242
    Lissarrague, F. et al. (eds.), Ceramique et peinture Grecques, Modes d'emploi, Actes du colloque internat., Ecole du Louvre, April 1995 (Paris, 1999): 162, FIGS.4-5 (DRAWINGS)
    Monuments et memoires publies par l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: 74 (1995) 40, FIGS.2-3
    Steuben, H. von, Frühe Sagendarstellungen in Korinth und Athen (Berlin, 1968): 28, FIG.13 (DRAWING OF PART)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=949
  • AVI Record Number: 834
  • CAVI Collection: ATHENS, N.M. 2035.1,2.
  • CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF BF KRATER{1}. FROM MENIDI. SOPHILOS. FIRST QUARTER SIXTH. 600-575.
  • CAVI Subject: 2035.1: UNEXPLAINED SUBJECT: CHARIOT PRECEDED BY SNAKE AND WOMAN; BELOW, ANIMALS. 2035.2: CENTAUROMACHY WITH HERACLES; BELOW, ANIMALS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: 2035.1: UNDER THE SPOUT: [Σοφ]ιλος :* μεπ̣ο̣ε̣σεν, RETR. TRACES OF OTHER INSCRIPTIONS, SEE BAKIR 68 AND PL. 8. 2035.2: Κε[ν]τα̣[υρος].
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} PROBABLY FROM THE SAME KRATER, CF. PARA. 18/21.
  • CAVI Comments: = 15,918 AND 15,942. THREATTE (1980), 56 NOTES THAT [2035.1] MAY HAVE A BOUSTROPHEDON INSCRIPTION, FOR OTHERWISE "IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN THE INTERPUNCT TO THE LEFT OF THE THETA IN THE UPPERMOST LINE, CF. THE PHOTOGRAPH IN [JDI 13, PL. 1,3]"; CF. ALSO P. 328: BEAZLEY'S μεπ̣ο̣ε̣σεν (A VERY EARLY OMISSION OF IOTA IN εποιεσεν) IS SOMEWHAT DOUBTFUL; IT HAD BEEN READ με[γρ]αφσεν, CF. CVA, GREECE 1, PL. 1.1.
  • CAVI Number: 0834
  • AVI Bibliography: WOLTERS (1898), PL. 1,3 AND P. 17 (2035.1), PL. 1,1 AND P. 17 (2035.2). — NICOLE (1911), NO. 907 (MUCH OTHER BIBL.). — K. RHOMAIOS, CVA ATHENS 1, GREECE 1 (1930), III H F, PL. 1,1 (2035.1). — BEAZLEY (1944A), 51/19-20. — ABV (1956), 42/36 (2035.1) AND 40/21 (2035.2). — JEFFERY (1961), 77/14C,D (2035.1-2). — PARA. (1971), 18/21 (BIBL.) AND 36. — THREATTE (1980), 56. — BAKIR (1981), 68/A 20, PLS. 8, FIG. 16, AND 10, FIG. 19 (2035.1-2). — ADD.[2] (1989), 11 (TWICE; BIBL.). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 63-64.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: HTTPS://PLEIADES.STOA.ORG/PLACES/579888
  • Coordinates: 38.081609,23.729782
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 38.0519988333,23.8189911
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