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350099, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1978.6-7.1-3

  • Vase Number: 350099
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: DINOS
  • Date: -600 to -550
  • Inscriptions: Named: HEPHAISTOS, HILETHYA THESUS, OKEANOS, ATHENAIA, ARTEMIS, [MO]IRAI, HERMES, [AP]OLON, MOSAI, APHRODITE, ARES, MOSAI, ANPHITRITE, POSEIDON, CHARITES, HERA, ZEUS, NUNPHAI, THEMIS, CHIRON, HEBE, DIONYSOS, LETO, CHARIKLO, HESTIA, DEMETER, IRIS, PELEUS
    Signature: SOPHILOS MEGRAPHSEN
  • Attributed To: SOPHILOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: Body 1: WEDDING OF PELEUS AND THETIS, GODS AND GODDESSES (ALL NAMED) BUILDING WITH DORIC COLUMNS, PELEUS (NAMED) WITH KANTHAROS, IRIS, DEMETER, HESTIA, CHARIKLO, LETO, DIONYSOS WITH GRAPE VINE, HEBE IN PEPLOS DECORATED WITH ANIMAL FRIEZES AND SPHINXES, CHIRON WITH BRANCHES, ONE WITH DEER AND HARE, THEMIS, NYMPHS (NAMED), ZEUS AND HERA IN CHARIOT, GODDESSES (HORAI ?), POSEIDON AND AMPHITRITE (NAMED) IN CHARIOT, GRACES, ARES AND APHRODITE IN CHARIOT, MUSES (NAMED), ONE PLAYING SYRINX, HERMES AND APOLLO WITH KITHARA IN CHARIOT, ATHENA (NAMED) AND ARTEMIS IN CHARIOT, MOIRAI, OKEANOS WITH SNAKE AND FISH, TETHYS (NAMED), EILEITHYIA (NAMED), HEPHAISTOS ON MULE
    Body 2: ANIMAL FRIEZE, GOAT, SIRENS, LIONS
    Body 2: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SIREN, PANTHERS, RAM, LION
    Body 3: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SIRENS, PANTHERS
    Stand 1: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SIRENS, PANTHER
    Stand 2: ANIMAL FRIEZE, GOAT, LION
    Stand 3: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SIRENS, PANTHER
    Stand: ANIMAL FRIEZE, SPHINX, GOAT, SIREN, PANTHER
  • Current Collection: London, British Museum: 1971.11-1.1
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Adam-Veleni, P. et al. (eds), Il dono di Dioniso, Mitologia del vino nell'Italia centrale (Molise) e nella Grecia del Nord (Macedonia) (Thessaloniki, 2011): 120, FIG.1 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Alexandridou, A., The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (c.630-570 BCE) (Leiden, 2011): FIG.7 (PARTS)
    American Journal of Archaeology: 101 (1997) 643, FIG.2 (PART)
    Annali del Seminario di Studi del Mondo Classico: 14 (1992) PL.17.1 (PART OF BD1)
    Annali del Seminario di Studi del Mondo Classico: 14 (1992), FIG.17.1 (PART)
    Antike Kunst: 40 (1997) PL.13 (BD1)
    Arts (online journal): 8.4 (2019) 144, FIG.8 (DRAWING OF PART OF BD1)
    Aston, E., Mixanthropoi, Animal-human hybrid deities in Greek religion (Liege, 2011): 68, FIG.7 (PART OF BD1)
    Bakir, G., Sophilos (Mainz, 1981): PLS.1-2, FIGS.1-4
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 19.16BIS
    Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987): 60, FIG.1 (PART OF BD1)
    Boardman, J., Athenian Black Figure Vases (London, 1974): FIG,24
    Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases: potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 51, FIG.61 (PART)
    Bodiou, L. et al., Parures et artifices, le corps expose danse l'Antiquite (Paris, 2011): FIG.N (COLOUR OF PART OF BD1)
    Boreas: 19 (1986) PL.4.3 (PART)
    British Museum Quarterly: 36 (1971-72) PLS.34-37
    Brize, P., Geryoneis des Stesichoros und die frühe griechische Kunst (Würzburg, 1980): PL.11.1 (PART)
    Brommer, F., Hephaistos (Mainz, 1978): PL.15.1 (PART)
    Brule, P., Women of Ancient Greece (Edinburgh, 2003): 12 (PART)
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIGS.38-39, 69 (PARTS)
    Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art (Oxford, 1986): PLS.1A, 2, 3B (PARTS)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 10
    Carratelli, G.P. (ed.), I Greci in Occidente (1996): 90 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Carratelli, G.P. (ed.), The Greek World: Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily (New York and Milan, 1996): 90 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Clackson, J., Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Cambridge, 2015): FRONTCOVER (COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
    Duby, G., Perrot, M. (eds.), Histoire des femmes (Plon, 1991): 164-165, FIG.1 (PARTS)
    Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica: SUPP.II.1, 529, FIG.597 (PART)
    Fiorentini, G., Caltabiano, M., and Calderone, A. (eds.), Archeologia del Mediterraneo, Studi in onore di Ernesto de Miro (Rome, 2003): 478, FIG.11 (PART OF OR)
    Glazebrook, A. and Tsakirgis, B. (eds.) Houses of Ill Repute: The Archaeology of Brothels, Houses, and Taverns in the Greek World (Philadelphia, 2016): 163, FIG.7.16 (A)
    Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: 1 (1983) 13-34 (INCLUDING FRAGMENTS 1978.6-7.1-3 AND 1978.6-6.1-2)
    Hamdorf, D., Dionysos, Bacchus, Kult und Wandlungen des Weingottes (Munich, 1986): 83, PL.46 (PART)
    Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin: SPRING 1997, 12, FIG.2 (PART)
    Hedreen, G., The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece: Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity (Cambridge, 2016): 171, FIG.28 (PART)
    Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.21B-C (PARTS)
    Hurwit, J.M., The Art and Culture of Early Greece, 1100-480 (Ithaca, 1985): 222, FIG.91
    Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIGS.38-40 (BD1, PARTS OF BD2)
    Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Wien: 74 (2005) 190, 210-212, FIGS.13, 30-33 (PARTS)
    Jurriaans-Helle, G., Composition in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting: The Chariot in Profile Type Scene. Babesch Supplementa 41 (Leuven, Paris, and Bristol, 2021): 95, 254, FIG.34 (COLOUR OF PART, PART)
    Korshak, Y., Frontal Faces in Attic Vase Painting of the Archaic Period (Chicago, 1977): 120, FIG.57 (PART)
    Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 37, 80, FIGS.15, 55 (A, PART OF SH)
    Lapatin, K., Luxus. The Sumptuous Arts of Greece and Rome (Los Angeles, 2015): 186, FIG.35 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD1)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.586, AMPHITRITE 53A (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.367, ARES 83
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.551, ARTEMIS 1281 (PARTS)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III PL.151, CHARIKLO I.1,2
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III PL.539, EILEITHYIA 83
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.190, CHEIRON 41
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.402, HEPHAISTOS 185 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.430, HERA 419 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.599, DEMETER 474 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.70, FLUVII 5 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.291, HESTIA 4 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.348, HORAI 44 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.376, MOIRAI 24 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.402, MOUSA, MOUSAI, 120 (PARTS)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.389, POSEIDON 182 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.829, THEMIS 20 (PART OF BD1)
    Mannack, T., Griechische Vasenmalerei, Eine Einführung, 2nd edition (Darmstadt, 2012): 107, FIG.59 (PARTS)
    Mededelingenblad, Vereniging van Vrienden van het Allard PiersonMuseum: 27 (1983) 7, FIG.17 (PART)
    Metropolitan Museum Journal: 51 (2016) 13, FIG.2, 16, FIG.7 (COLOUR OF PARTS)
    Monuments et memoires publies par l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: 74 (1995) 41, FIGS.4-5 (PARTS)
    Moon, W. (ed.), Ancient Greek Art and Iconography (Madison, 1983): 60-61, FIGS.4.5A-D
    Morais, R., Centeno, R., and Freitas Ferreira, D. (eds.), Myths, Gods and Heroes. Greek Vases in Portugal – Mitos, Deuses e Heróis. Vasos Gregos em Portugal (Porto, 2022): II, 172, FIG.11 (COLOUR OF PARTS)
    Moraw, S., Die Mänade in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Mainz, 1998): PL.1.4 (PART)
    Oakley, J., The Greek Vase, Art of the Story Teller (London, 2013): 18, FIG.9A, 26, FIG.1, 28, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF PARTS)
    Olmos, R. (ed.), Coloquio sobre el Puteal de la Moncloa, Estudios de Iconografia II (Madrid, 1986): 107, FIG.24 (DRAWING OF PART)
    Osborne, R., Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Oxford History of Art (Oxford, 1998): 89, FIG.41 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Osborne, R., The Transformation of Athens Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (Princeton and Oxford, 2018): 12, FIG.1.9 (PART)
    PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 1 (PART)
    Padgett, J. M. (ed.), The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (Princeton, 2003): 18, FIG.15 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD1)
    Palagia, O., and Wescoat, B.D. (eds.), Samothracian Connections, Essays in honour of James R. McCredie (Oxford, 2010): 53, FIG.5.3 (PART OF BD1)
    Pedley, J.G., Greek Art and Archaeology (New Jersey, 1993): 188, FIG.6.66 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Pedley, J.G., Greek Art and Archaeology. Fifth Edition (London, 2011): 192, FIG.6.74 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
    Philipp, M. et al., Dionysos, Rausch und Ekstase (Munich, 2013): 41, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD1)
    Phoenix, Classical Association of Canada: 55 (2001) 11, 29, FIGS.1, 3-8 (PARTS)
    Pingiatoglou, S., Eileithyia (Würzburg, 1981): PL.5.2 (PART)
    Plantzos, D., Greek Art and Archaeology, c. 1100-30 BC (Athens, 2016): 88, FIG.130 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Revue du Louvre: 5/6 (1987) 348, FIGS.21-22 (PARTS OF BD1)
    Schefold, K., Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der Früh- und Hocharchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1993): 194, FIG.191; 220, FIGS.229A-I (PARTS)
    Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe (Munich, 1983): 171, FIG.149 (PART)
    Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 171, FIG.149 (PART)
    Schlesier, R. and Schwarzmaier, A. (eds.), Dionysos, Verwandlung und Ekstase (Berlin, 2008): 72, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD1)
    Seaman, K. and Schultz, P. (eds.), Artists and Artistic Production in Ancient Greece (Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne, 2017): 162, FIG.10.2 (A)
    Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PLS.16-17 (PARTS)
    Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 217, FIG.179 (PART OF BD1)
    Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst: Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 237, FIG.12.8 (PART OF BD1)
    Smith, T.J. and Plantzos, D. (eds.), A Companion to Greek Art (Malden, 2012): I, 48, FIG.3.3 (PARTS)
    Sparkes, B.A., Greek Art, Second Edition (Cambridge, 2011): 89, FIG.28 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD1)
    Sparkes, B.A., The Red and the Black (London, 1996): 11, FIG.I.5 (PART)
    Stuttard, D., Power Games, Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics (London, 2012): 110, FIG.41 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD1)
    Thomsen, A., Die Wirkung der Götter, Bilder mit Flügelfiguren auf griechischen Vasen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Berlin and Boston, 2011): 244, FIG.102 (PART OF BD1)
    Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 66, FIG.21 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Valavanis, P. and Kourkoumelis, D., Chaire kai piei, drinking vessels (1996): 69 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Villing, A. et al., Troy: myth and reality (London, 2019): 55-56, FIG.35, 36A-D (COLOUR OF PARTS)
    Whitley, J., The Archaeology of Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2001): 207, FIG.9.9 (A)
    Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 197-198, FIGS.8-9 (PARTS)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4924
  • AVI Record Number: 4748
  • LIMC ID: 6487
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73ff7fcf74949-a
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1971-1101-1
  • CAVI Collection: London 1971.11-1.1.+
  • CAVI Lemma: BF dinos with stand. Sophilos. Second quarter sixth. Ca. 570.
  • CAVI Subject: Wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Inscriptions in red: hε̣φαιστος, retr. hιλεθυα, retr. Θε(θ)υς (theta under the snake's tongue){1}. Οκεανος. Αθεναια̣. Αρτεμις. [Μο]ιραι. hερμες, retr. [Ἀπ]ολ[λ]ον. Μοσαι. Αφροδιτε. Αρ̣ε̣ς. Μοσαι. Ανφιτριτε. Ποσειδον (end retr.). Χαριτες. hερα. Ζευς. Nυ[ν]φαι. Θεμις. Χιρον. hεβε. Διονυσος. Λετο. Χαρικλο. hεστια. Δε̣μετερ. Ιρις, retr. Πελευς, retr. Σοφιλος :* μεγραφσεν, retr.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} cf. Threatte (1996), 751 (on i, 460).
  • CAVI Comments: Ex London, Erskine. 3 frs. are on loan from the Getty Museum: 76.AE.126 = London 1978.6-7.1-3. Also two frs. bought in the American Market: London 1978.6-6.1 and 1978.6-6.2. The Getty frs. show: [Δ]ε̣μετε[ρ]. Ιρις, retr. Πελευς. Have these frs. been inserted (they are said to be on loan) in the original or the photos? Some wrong restorations have been discovered; note a gap in the signature. According to Beazley, ABV 37 the artist's name could be: Σώφιλος [so also LGPN, but that should be Σωφίλος(?)], Σοφίλος [that should be Σόφιλος(?)], or Σόφιλλος. The first occurrence of Themis (Shapiro). Closed heta. Theta both crossed and dotted. Sigma frequently reversed.
  • CAVI Number: 4748
  • AVI Bibliography: Para. (1971), 19/16 bis. � D. Williams (1983a), 9-34, figs. 1-34. � D. Williams (1985), fig. 31 (colored picture of head of procession, excellent for inscriptions, which are clearly in red (dark violet)). � Add.[2] (1989), 10-11 (much bibl.). � Shapiro (1989), pls. 16-17. � AttScr (1990), no. 65. � Shapiro (1993), 263/141 (bibl.), 217, fig. 179 (detail).
  • 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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