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300620, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 99.519

  • Vase Number: 300620
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP, SIANA
  • Provenance: GREECE, BOEOTIA, THEBES
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Attributed To: BOSTON CA, P OF by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: CIRCE (NAKED) WITH CUP, ODYSSEUS WITH SWORD, MEN WITH ANIMAL HEADS (DOG, GOAT, PANTHER, COCK, HORSE, LION), DOG
    B: HERAKLES WITH ACHELOOS, BETWEEN DRAPED MEN, MOCK INSCRIPTION
    I: SPHINX
  • Current Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 99.519
  • Publication Record: Angiolillo, S., and Giuman, M. (eds.), Imago, Studi di iconografia antica (Cagliari, 2007): 135, FIG.2 (PART OF A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 69.1
    Bol, P. (ed.), Zum Verhältnis von Raum und Zeit in der griechischen Kunst (2003): 33, FIG.2 (DRAWING OF A AND PART OF A)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 18
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 2, 29-30, PL.(921) 87.1-6 View Whole CVA Plates
    Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 75 (2006) 319, FIG.2 (B)
    Lefkowitz, M., Greek Gods, Human Lives (New Haven and London, 2003): 96 (A)
    Padgett, J. M. (ed.), The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (Princeton, 2003): 336-338, NO.93 (COLOUR OF A, B AND I)
    Snodgrass, A.M., An Archaeology of Greece, the present State and Future Scope of a Discipline (London, 1987): 137, FIG.35 (A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2825
  • AVI Record Number: 2678
  • LIMC ID: 15049
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7478e082ca09b-f
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 99.519.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF Siana cup. From Thebes. Painter of Boston C.A.{1}. Second quarter sixth.
  • CAVI Subject: Int.: sphinx. Top row: A-B: black. Bottom row: A: Circe turning Odysseus' companions into animals. B: Heracles and Acheloos (bull), between six onlookers.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Bottom row, B: above Acheloos, poorly preserved nonsense: δ(.)ργρ̣ι{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} For `Circe-Acheloos'. {2} my reading; photo seems to show an omicron for the first letter.
  • CAVI Comments: Double-decker.
  • CAVI Number: 2678
  • AVI Bibliography: Photo. — ABV (1956), 69/1. — Add.[2] (1989), 18.
  • 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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