Attributed To:Manner of KADMOS P by KRON NIKIAS P by MCPHEE
Decoration: A: BIRTH OF ERICHTHONIOS, ATHENA, GE, HERMES, APOLLO SEATED, HEPHAISTOS, ZEUS, APHRODITE (ALL NAMED), NIKE, OWL FLYING WITH WREATH B: EOS PURSUING KEPHALOS, YOUTH IN CHLAMYS AND PETASOS WITH STONE
Last Recorded Collection: Richmond (VA), Museum of Fine Arts: 81.70
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 30 (1987), PLS.18-19 Apollo, The International Art Magazine: 120 (DEC., 1985), 430, FIGS.8-10 (A, B, PART OF SIDE) Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): PL.15 (A, PART OF A) Athena Nike, The Victory of the Goddess. Greek Marbles of the 5th and 4th century BC of Fondazione Sorgente Group (Rome, 2013): 50, FIG.20 (PART OF A) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.322 (A) Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art: 70 (1983) 7, 277, FIG.7 (A) Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.111 (A) Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 298, FIG.242 (A) Erath, G. et al. (eds.), Komos, Festschrift für Thuri Lorenz zum 65. Geburtstag (Vienna, 1997): PL.24.66 (PART OF A) Evans Grubbs, J., and Parkin, T. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World (Oxford, 2013): 161, FIG.7.9 (PART) Journal of Hellenic Studies: 88.4 (2019) 738, 743, FIGS.1 AND 4 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF HANDLE) Keay, S. and Moser, S. (eds.), Greek Art in View, Studies in honour of Brian Sparkes (Oxford, 2004): 26, FIG.2.2 (PART OF A) Le mythe Grec dans l'Italie antique, Fonction et images (Rome, 1999): 535, FIG.5 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.403, HEPHAISTOS 221 (PARTS OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.632, ERECHTHEUS 11 (A) Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 184-185, FIGS.144-145 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF A) Meyer, M., Athena, Göttin von Athen. Kult und Mythos auf der Akropolis bis in klassische Zeit, Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 16 (Vienna, 2017): 644, FIG.370 (COLOUR OF A) Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 88, 143, 208, NO.6 (A, B, COLOUR OF A) Neils, J., Oakley, J.H., et al., Striving for excellence, ancient Greek childhood and the Olympic spirit (New York, 2004): 27, FIG.17 (COLOUR OF A) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 264, FIG.7 (A) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 261-262, NO.71 (COLOUR OF A, B, AH) Shepherd, G. (ed.), Interaction and Identity, Sicily and South Italy from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity (Nicosia, 2021): 120, FIG.4 (A) Tetskhladze, G., Prag, A., & Snodgrass, A. (eds.), Periplous, Papers on Classical Art and Archaeology presented to Sir John Boardman (London, 2000): 366, FIG.5 (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Thomsen, A., Die Wirkung der Götter, Bilder mit Flügelfiguren auf griechischen Vasen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Berlin and Boston, 2011): 11, 210-211, FIGS.5, 90-91 (A, PART OF A, PARTS OF B) Thöne, C., Ikonographische Studien zu Nike im 5.Jh.v.Chr., Untersuchungen zu Wirkungsweise und Wesensart, Archäologie & Geschichte 8 (Heidelberg, 1999): PL.12.1 (A)
CAVI Subject: A: Birth of Erichthonios: above the left handle, Apollo seated with his
laurel and a tripod; Hephaestus; higher up, the upper part of Hermes; Ge with
the baby; Athena; an owl; Nike with a shield; Aphrodite seated; Zeus; above the
right handle, a seated youth (Epimetheus or Prometheus). B: Eos pursuing
Cephalus; at left, a companion of Cephalus, throwing a stone at the goddess.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: inscriptions above the heads: Απολλ(ο)(ν). Ηφαισ(τ)(ο)(ς). (Ε)ρμης.
Γαια(?){1}. Athena{2}. Ζ(ε)υς. [Ε]π̣ιμηθ(ο)υ(ς){3}. B: to right of Eos' head:
Εως. High above Cephalus' head: Κ(ε)φ(α)λος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} this is very unclear in the facs. {2} illegible in the facs.: ν ιυν(?).
{3} discussed by Oakley on p. 127: he says he reads: ΕΙΜΗΘΟΥΣ, but the facs.
shows: ΠΙΜΗΘΟΥΣ. Both readings are probably wrong. Oakley also suggests that the
third letter from the end could be an epsilon. He prefers Epimetheus to
Prometheus. I go by xerox' of photos. kindly sent me by Oakley.
CAVI Comments: Oakley says the tripod points to a dithyrambic victory as the occasion for
the vase. The inscriptions are hard to read, since they are in applied white
which has in part come off. The facss. are poor. The bracketed [( )] letters are
poorly preserved. Mostly Ionic, but there is a 3-stroke sigma in the name Εως.
CAVI Number: 6929
AVI Bibliography: BADB 10,158 (bibl.). — Neils (1983), 277, fig. 7. — Mayo (1985), 430, figs.
8-10 (A, B, part of side). — Oakley (1987), 123-30, fig. 1 (facss. of
inscriptions), pls. 18-19. — Oakley (1987), pls. 18-19. — LIMC iv (1988), pl.
403, Hephaistos 221 (parts of A); pl. 632 Erechtheus 11 (A). — Boardman (1989),
fig. 322 (A). — Arafat (1990), pl. 15 (A, part of A). — Carpenter (1991), fig.
111 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
