Decoration: A: DIOMEDES WITH SWORD AND ODYSSEUS IN PILOS AND CHLAMYS WITH SPEARS AND SWORD STEALING THE PALLADION, HELEN, ALL NAMED, POST B: OLYMPOS WITH LYRE AND MARSYAS WITH PIPES, BOTH NAMED AND SEATED, WOMEN (MUSES), THALIA (NAMED), YOUTH SEATED, SATYR AND MAENAD WITH THYRSOS (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: H3235
Previous Collections:
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 81401
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: M1212
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1316.1 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 464.56 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 362 Cohen, B. (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal, Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (Leiden, Boston and Köln, 2000): 355, FIG.13.8 (DRAWING OF A) Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): II, PL.75 (COLOUR DRAWING OF B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.328, HELENE 201 (A,B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.26, OLYMPOS I3 (PART OF B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.614, THALEIA IV 5 (PART OF B) Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): II, PLS.36-7 Oenbrink, W., Das Bild im Bilde (Frankfurt, 1997): 427, PL.15 RIGHT (PART OF A) de Cesare, M., Le statue in immagine, Studi sulle raffigurazioni di statue nella pittura vascolare greca (Rome, 1997): 147, FIG.88 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF amphora. From Ruvo. Group of Naples 3235. Last quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Marsyas (playing the flutes) and Olympos (playing the lyre), with three
maenads, two satyrs and a boy satyr. B: The Theft of the Palladion: Helen(?)
between Diomedes and Odysseus.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Μαρσυ[ας]. Ολυμπος{1}. The boy satyr: Σι[μος]. Τυρβα[ς]. Ορανιη. Θαλεα.
The right-most maenad: κα[λη]. B: Burn calls the middle figure simply a woman:
only ελ̣ survives: [Θ]εα̣[νω] or Ελ̣[ενη].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Fr?nkel has Ολομπος: a misprint?
CAVI Comments: = 3235. Theano, wife of Antenor and priestess of Athena, surrendered the
Palladion to the Greeks. This restoration was suggested by E. Braun, Annali
1836, 298. But on S Italian vases Theano is fleeing in terror. Most prefer
Helen, as suggested by F.G. Welcker, Die griechischen Trag?dien mit R?cksicht
auf den epischen Cyclus (Bonn 1839) i, 148. Helen helped Diomedes plot the
capture of Troy and may have discussed the Palladion with him (Moret 74 n. 3).
But Burn points out that the woman is not helping the Greeks but holding them
back; she agrees with Welcker that Helen is arbitrating a quarrel of the heroes.
Cf. the lost Panathenaic amphora, Burn N 2, ARV[2] 1316/2, where Helen is
definitely present. For possible political implications, see Burn 64-65. Ionic
alphabet.
