216556, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1864,1007.78

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Vase Number: 216556
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Shape Name: KANTHAROS
Provenance: GREECE, RHODES, CAMIROS
Date: -450 to -400
Inscriptions: Named: THESEUS, ANDROMACHE, ALEXANDRE, PHORBAS
Attributed To: ALEXANDRE GROUP by BEAZLEY
ALEXANDRE P by LEZZI-HAFTER
Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, WARRIOR (NAMED THESEUS) AND AMAZON WITH AXE AND BOW (ANDROMACHE, NAMED)
B: AMAZONOMACHY, AMAZON IN PATTERNED SUIT, WARRIOR, DEVICE, LION (BOTH NAMED, ALEXANDRE, PHORBAS)
Current Collection: London, British Museum: E157 (View on British Museum site)
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1864,1007.78 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1213.2
Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.225 (A, B)
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 348
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 4, III.IC.6-III.IC.7, PLS.(227,228) 34.2A-B,35.1A View Whole CVA Plates
Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.33.137 (PART OF B)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.658, PHORBAS I 13 (B)
Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 405, FIG.288 (A)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4683
AVI Record Number: 4511
LIMC ID: 6656
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7401ea5621856-9
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1864-1007-78
CAVI Collection: London E 157.
CAVI Lemma: RF kantharos. From Camiros. Alexandre Group (Beazley){1}; Alexandre Painter (Lezzi-Hafter). Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Amazonomachy: A: Theseus and Andromache. B: Phorbas and Alexandre.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Theseus' helmet: Θεσευς. To left of Andromache's head and raised arm: Ανδρομαχε{2}. B: to right of her forehead: Αεξνδρε. I.e.: Α[λ]εξ[α]νδρε{3}. To left of the Greek's helmet, at some distance: Φορβας.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} akin to the Eretria Painter. {2} wrongly cited as Ανρομαχε by Kretschmer (1894), 183-84 with ref. to Salzmann (1866–75), pl. 59. {3} clear in the photo, hence not [Α]λεξ[α]νδρε. Bothmer reads: Αλεξ[α]νδρε.
CAVI Comments: Mixed alphabet.
CAVI Number: 4511
AVI Bibliography: H.B. Walters, CVA London 4, Great Britain 5 (1929), III I c, pl. 34,2a-b. — ARV[2] (1963), 1213/2. — Lezzi-Hafter (1976), 93, 112/Al 1, pls. 141-42. — Add.[2] (1989), 348. — AttScr (1990), no. 1056, fig. 137 (B, part).
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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