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209544, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 98.886

  • Vase Number: 209544
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: WHITE GROUND
  • Shape Name: PHIALE
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS
  • Date: -500 to -450
  • Inscriptions: SOTADES
    Signature: SO[TADES] E[POIE]
  • Attributed To: SOTADES by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: Figure: CICADA
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 98.886
  • Publication Record: Antike Welt: 17 (1986), SONDERNUMMER, 62, FIG.97 (PART)
    Antiquity: 62 (1988) 745, FIG.1 (I)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1669
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 772
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.100
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 287
    Cohen, B., The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 311-312, NO.96 (I, COLOUR OF OUTSIDE)
    Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 83, FIGS.59-60 (A,I)
    Metzler, D. (ed.), Mazzo di Fiori, Festschrift für Herbert Hoffmann (Ruhpolding and Mainz, 2010): 88 (FIG)
    Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: VIII, PL.50, CAT.109 (I)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2810
  • AVI Record Number: 2663
  • LIMC ID: 203025
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-76bb4223464c3-b
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 98.886.
  • CAVI Lemma: Phiale mesomphalos. From Athens. Unattributed. Sotades, potter. Second quarter fifth.
  • CAVI Subject: Int. white, with a plastic cicada on a black navel; the lip black.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: On the outside of the lip, Gr. two-liner: Σο̣[ταδες] | ε[ποιει]{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} so restored in ARV[2], probably because another phiale by Sotades (London D 8, ARV[2] 773/ε) has this form rather than εποιεσεν.
  • CAVI Comments: Three-stroke sigma.
  • CAVI Number: 2663
  • AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 772/δ, 1669. — Add.[2] (1989), 287. — Hoffmann (1997), 113-18, fig. 65 (does not show inscription).
  • 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/579885
  • Coordinates: 37.976173,23.72519
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 37.9751764678,23.7263451721
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Last updated 06/02/2025 10:06:00 by Mannack, Thomas. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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