206878, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1837,0609.71

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Vase Number: 206878
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Shape Name: AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE B
Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
Date: -475 to -425
Attributed To: ALTAMURA P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: MENELAOS PURSUING HELEN, WOMAN FLEEING, SWORD
B: MAENADS, ONE WITH THYRSOS AND PHIALE, ONE WITH OINOCHOE AND IVY SPRIG
Current Collection: London, British Museum: E263 (View on British Museum site)
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1837,0609.71 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 594.54
Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 335.28
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.Ic.5, PL.(171) 6.2A-B View Whole CVA Plates
Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): III, PL.169.3-4 (COLOUR DRAWING OF A, DRAWING OF B)
Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 96, FIG.61 (A)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.337, HELENE 264 (A)
Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 249, FIG.8, PL.30B (A, COLOUR OF A)
Prange, M., Der Niobidenmaler und seine Werkstatt, Untersuchungen zu einer Vasenwerkstatt frühklassischer Zeit (Frankfurt, 1989): PL.24.A68 (B)
Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.22C (A)
Todisco, L., Pittura e ceramica figurata tra Grecia, Magna Grecia e Sicilia (Bari and Rome, 2006): 116, FIG.17 (A)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4715
AVI Record Number: 4543
LIMC ID: 29922
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-754bc79d918bb-d
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1837-0609-71
CAVI Collection: London E 263.
CAVI Lemma: RF amphora. From Vulci. Altamura Painter. Second quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Menelaus and Helen. B: three maenads.
CAVI Inscriptions: Inside the mouth, Gr.: ΧΧΙΙ::Ι{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} after Johnston (1979); see also the old BM Cat., pl. B/807.
CAVI Number: 4543
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 198-99. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great Britain 4 (1927), III I c, pl. 62. — ARV[2] (1963), 594/54 (bibl.). — Johnston (1979), 177/suppl. list 1/11.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/413393
Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975

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