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310459, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1849,0620.5

  • Vase Number: 310459
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: OLPE
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -575 TO -525
  • Inscriptions: AMASIS
    Signature: AMASISMEPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: AMASIS P by BEAZLEY
    AMASIS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: Body: PERSEUS, WITH SICKLE, AND MEDUSA (BOTH IN NEBRIS), HERMES
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B471
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 153.32, 687
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 64
    Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 65, 150-151 (BD, COLOUR OF BD, PROFILE)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 44
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.9.35 (PART)
    Les mythes fondateurs à la Petite Galerie du Louvre, Dossiers d'Archéologie: 372, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015, 31 TOP (COLOUR OF BD)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.183, GORGO, GORGONES 293
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.290, PERSEUS 113
    Marconi, C., Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World, The Metopes of Selinus (Cambridge, 2007): 146, FIG.73 (DRAWING OF BD)
    Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 22, FIG.13 (PROFILE)
    Valavanis, P. and Kourkoumelis, D., Chaire kai piei, drinking vessels (1996): 77 (COLOUR)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4507
  • AVI Record Number: 4335
  • LIMC ID: 9728
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-742D64255A17B-A
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1849-0620-5
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON B 471.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF OINOCHOE (OLPE). FROM VULCI. AMASIS PAINTER. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. 540-530. MIDDLE PERIOD (BEAZLEY). LATE (BOTHMER).
  • CAVI Subject: PERSEUS SLAYING MEDUSA, WITH HERMES.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: ALONG THE LEFT-HAND EDGE, FACING OUT: Αμασις μεποιεσεν VACAT.
  • CAVI Comments: THE WORDS SLIGHTLY SEPARATED, WITHOUT A VACAT; SEE ATTSCR.
  • CAVI Number: 4335
  • AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), NO. 8126. — ABV (1956), 153/32, 687. — PARA. (1971), 64. — BOTHMER (1985), 150/31 (ILL.). — ADD.[2] (1989), 44. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 158, FIG. 35.
  • 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/413393
  • Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975
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Last updated 15/12/2025 07:03:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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