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302025, ATHENIAN, New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum, San Simeon (CA), Hearst Corporation, 56.171.29

  • Vase Number: 302025
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: HYDRIA
  • Date: -550 to -500
  • Attributed To: LEAGROS GROUP by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body: AJAX AND ACHILLES PLAYING SEATED ON BLOCKS, ATHENA, HELMETS ON BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, DEVICES, GORGONEION
    Figure: HEAD OF WOMAN
    Shoulder: CHARIOT BETWEEN DRAPED YOUTHS SEATED ON STOOLS WITH STAFFS, WARRIOR, DOGS
  • Current Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 56.171.29
  • Previous Collections:
    • San Simeon (CA), Hearst Corporation: 9969
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 362.30
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 161
    Bothmer, D. v., Greek Vase Painting, An Introduction (New York, 1987): 29, 65, NO.13 (BD, PART OF SH)
    Bothmer, D. von, Greek Vase Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1987): 31, 70, NO.17
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 96
    Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 139, FIG.130 (BD)
    Giudice, E. and Giudice, G. (eds.), Studi Miscellanei di Ceramografia Greca VII (Catania, 2021): 169, PL.4.7 (COLOUR OF BD)
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.23.94 (BD)
    Krentz, P., and Wheeler E.L (eds.), Polyaenus, Strategems of War (Chicago, 1994): FRONTCOVER (BD)
    Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 135, FIG.1, PL.16 (BD, SH, COLOUR OF BD)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=5936
  • AVI Record Number: 5713
  • CAVI Collection: New York 56.171.29.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF hydria. Leagros Group. Last quarter sixth. 510-500.
  • CAVI Subject: Shoulder: a warrior leaving in a chariot. Body: Ajax and Achilles playing a board game, with Athena.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Body: to left of the left hero's armor, at the top: ορδι(.)(.). To right of the armor: σχοδεγ. Above the head of the left warrior: (ν)χε(h)ι. Between the left warrior and Athena, facing her: μχ^δο^ευ, retr.{1}. Above the right warrior's head: (ν)χ^ι^αι{2}. Above the knee of the right warrior: χδευ, retr. Above and around the armor of the right warrior: χρεριχε, retr.{3}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} spears and a hand intervene. {2} Athena's raised hand and a spear intervene. {2} the first rho is nearly triangular, the second has an extended vertical.
  • CAVI Comments: Ex San Simeon, Hearst 9969. Typical Leagran nonsense inscriptions of the νχαο type. Reversed nu (or sideways sigma?); the rho variable. Some letters of doubtful identification.
  • CAVI Number: 5713
  • AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 362/30. — Bothmer (1957), 174,1. — Para. (1971), 161. — Add.[2] (1989), 96. — AttScr (1990), no. 448, fig. 94.
  • 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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