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215266, ATHENIAN, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1937.983

  • Vase Number: 215266
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KRATER, CALYX
  • Date: -450 to -400
  • Inscriptions: Named: KOMOS, SIKINNIS, PROMETHEUS, SIMOS
    Named: POSEIDON, THESEUS, PROKROUSTES, A[THENAIA], [SKIR]ON, P[ITYOKAM]PTES
  • Attributed To: DINOS P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A2: THEATRICAL (?) PROMETHEUS WITH NARTHEX, SATYRS WITH TORCHES (ALL NAMED)
    AB1: THE DEEDS OF THESEUS (NAMED), PROKRUSTES, SKIRON (NAMED), SINIS (NAMED), AND THE ROCK, AND THE BULL, AND THE SOW, PHAIA (OLD WOMAN), POSEIDON, ATHENA (BOTH NAMED), DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF
    B2: EOS PURSUING KEPHALOS, YOUTH IN CHLAMYS, PETASOS, WITH SPEARS AND ROCK
  • Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: 1937.983
  • Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 43 (1939) 619, FIG.1, PLS.10-15
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1153.13
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 457
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.181 (A, PARTS OF B)
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIGS.118, 236 (PARTS)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 336
    Cohen, A. and Rutter, J.B. (eds.), Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy, Hesperia Supplement 41 (Princeton, 2007): 168, FIG.8.9 (PART OF A2)
    Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 295, FIG.185 (PART OF A2)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 847, NO.362 (PART OF B1)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.44, KOMOS 17 (A2), PL.64, KROMMYO 12 (A1)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.372, POSEIDON 201, PL.631, THESEUS 50 (PARTS)
    Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 223, FIG.193 (COLOUR OF A)
    Mannack, T., Griechische Vasenmalerei, Eine Einführung, 2nd edition (Darmstadt, 2012): 155, FIG.102 (A)
    Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 151, PLS.134A-B (A, PART OF A2)
    Neils, J., The Youthful Deeds of Theseus (Rome, 1987): FIGS.79-81 (AB1)
    Shapland, A. (ed.), Labyrinth, Knossos, Myth & Reality (Oxford, 2023): 56, FIG.38 (COLOUR OF PART OF B1)
    Vickers, M., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford, 1999): 54-55, NO.41 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6213
  • AVI Record Number: 5980
  • LIMC ID: 9000
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-742323fc278ba-3
  • CAVI Collection: Oxford 1937.983.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. Dinos Painter. Last quarter fifth. 425-420 (Beazley).
  • CAVI Subject: A-B, upper zone: Deeds of Theseus: Procrustes, Skiron, Sinis, the sword, bull, Phaia. Lower zone: A: Prometheus Fire-lighter with satyrs. B: Eos and Cephalus.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A-B: upper zone: Ποσειδων. Θησευ[ς]. Προκρουστης. Α[θηναια]. Θησ[ευς]. [Σκιρ]ων. Θησευς. Π[ιτυοκαμ]πτης. The other scenes are not inscribed. Lower zone: A: Κωμος. Σικ[ι]ννις{1}. Προμ[η]θ[ευς]. Σιμος.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} parallels are given in AJA 43.
  • CAVI Comments: Ionic alphabet.
  • CAVI Number: 5980
  • AVI Bibliography: Beazley (1939b), 618 ff., fig. 1, pls. 10-13. — ARV[2] (1963), 1153/13. — Para. (1971), 457. — Add.[2] (1989), 336. — Boardman (1989), fig. 181. — AttScr (1990), no. 772. — Kossatz-Deissmann (1991), 158 (Komos 6). — Matheson (1995), 383/D 14, pl. 134A-B (A, part of A below).
  • 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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