Attributed To: DOURIS by SIGNATURE PYTHON by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A,B: THE ARMS OF ACHILLES, DRAPED MAN BETWEEN WARRIORS (AJAX, ODYSSEUS), MEN , SOME DRAPED, AT BLOCK, VOTING, ATHENA BETWEEN DRAPED MEN I: DRAPED YOUTH (NEOPTOLEMOS) AND DRAPED MAN (ODYSSEUS) WITH ARMS OF ACHILLES, BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICE, LION ATTACKING DEER, STARS
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 3695
Previous Collections:
Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Vienna, Österreichisches Museum: 325
Publication Record: Albersmeier, S. (ed.), Heroes, Mortals and Myths in ancient Greece (Baltimore, 2009): 113, FIG.66 (I) Aloni, A., and Ornaghi, M. (eds.), Tra panellenismo e tradizioni locali, Nuovi contributi (Messina, 2011): 78, FIG.6 (A) American Journal of Archaeology: 93 (1989) 82, FIG.1 (B) Andreae, B. et al., Ulisse, il mito e la memoria (Rome, 1996): 33, NO.1.10, 66-67, FIGS.20-22 (I, A, B, COLOUR OF I, A, B) Antike Kunst: 23 (1980), 139, FIG.1, PL.35.3 (INCLUDING DRAWING) Apollo, The International Art Magazine: 138 (JULY 1993) 7, FIG.6 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1569 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 429.26, 1653 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 201.20 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 374 Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): VI, PL.1 Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PLS.26, 143.NO.42 (I, A, B) Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies: 38 (1991-1993) PL.3 (I) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 116 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 236 Carter, J.B. and Morris, S.P. (eds.), The Ages of Homer, A Tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule (Austin, 1995): 442-443, FIGS.27.8-10 (A, B, I) Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 398, FIG.7 (I) Classical Antiquity: 8 (1989) PL.7 AT 115 (I) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: WIEN, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 1, 15-16, PLS.(11,12,13) 11.1-2, 12.1-2, 13.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Ephemeris Archaiologike: 138 (1999) 21, FIGS.2-3 (A, B) Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.54 (A, B, I) Geroulanos, S. and Bridler, R., Trauma, Wund-Entstehung und Wund-Pflege im antiken Griechenland (Mainz, 1994): FIGS.62-64 (I, A, B) Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: 4 (1989) 123, FIG.4 (I) Hedreen, G., Capturing Troy, The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 2001): FIGS.25A-B (A, B) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): I, 268 JOIN/JOINS: WILLIAMS Langlotz, E., Griechische Vasenbilder (Heidelberg, 1922): PL.21 (I) Laser, S., Sport und Spiel, Archeologia Homerica (Göttingen, 1987): 180, FIG.58B (DRAWING OF B) Latacz, J. et al., Homer, Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst (Munich, and Basel 2008): 391-392, NO.134 (COLOUR OF A, B AND I) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.451, NEOPTOLEMOS 15 (I) Lücken, G. von, Griechische Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1921): PLS.102-3 Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): 8, PL.41 Neer, R.T., Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting, The Craft of Democracy, ca.530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002): 143, FIG.62 (PART) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIGS.463, 459-460 Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 90, FIGS.80-81 (A, B) Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 259-260, 268, FIGS 235-236, 240 (I, A, B) Seidensticker, B. and Vöhler, M. (eds.), Gewalt und Ästhetik, Zur Gewalt und ihrer Darstellung in der griechischen Klassik (Berlin, New York, 2006): 238, FIG.6 (DRAWING OF A AND B) Steiner, A., Reading Greek Vases (Cambridge, 2007): 120-121, FIGS.6.19-6.21 (A, B, I) The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 28, PL.23 (A) The Athenian Agora, Results of Excavations conducted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: XXVIII, PL.23 (A) The Birth of Democracy, An Exhibition celebrating the 2500th Anniversary of Democracy at the National Archives, Washington, D.C. (Athens, 1993): 94, FIG.13.4 (COLOUR OF B) Walter-Karydi, E. (ed.), Myths, Texts, Images, Homeric epics and ancient Greek art, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Odyssey, Ithaca, September 15-19, 2009 (Ithaca, 2010): 195, FIG.3, PL.4A (I, COLOUR OF I)
CAVI Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3695.+
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Cerveteri. Douris. Python, potter. First quarter fifth. 500-490.
Ca. 490 (Eichler).
CAVI Subject: The Armor of Achilles: Int.: Neoptolemus and Odysseus. A: Ajax and Achilles
quarreling. B: the vote, with Athena in the center.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: along the left half of margin: Δορις εγρ(α)φ(σ)εν{1}. A: below the top
margin: κο (for hο) παις καλος. B: below the top margin: Χαιρεστεατος (for
Χαιρεστρατος) καλος{2}. On the reserved foot profile: Πυθον{3}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} alpha without cross bar; the sigma nearly a line. {2} Reichhold leaves
the space for τος vacant; Masner dots ο̣ς̣; Beazley gives all letters. {3} B.-O.
gives all inscriptions complete and without any errors. {4} the text in Buitron
gives a dotted delta.
CAVI Comments: Ex Oest. Mus. 325. + fr. in Villa Giulia (added to B by D. Williams).
Unusually sloppy writing for Douris, but the writing on his early vases tends to
be sloppy; it becomes neat in the middle period (see AttScr). On the subject of
the awarding of the arms of Achilles, see B.-O. 13-14. Attic alphabet with
four-stroke sigma. Delta normal{4}. Rho with and without tail. The letter forms
taken from FR.
CAVI Number: 7951
AVI Bibliography: Masner (1892), 44-45 (not ill.). — FR (1904–32), i, 272-75, pl. 54 (dr.;
photo of Int.). — Dinsmoor (1946), 106 and 116 (mentions; much bibl.). — F.
Eichler, CVA Vienna 1, Austria 1 (1951), pls. 11-12 and 13,1-2 (bibl.). — ARV[2]
(1963), 429/26 (much bibl.), 425, 1653. — Para. (1971), 374. — Add.[2] (1989),
236 (much bibl.). — Robertson (1992), 87ff., figs. 80-81 (A, B). —
Buitron-Oliver (1995), 13-14, 75/42, pls. 26 and 143. — Buitron-Oliver (1995a),
440ff., figs. 27.8-10.
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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