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4804, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, market, Sotheby's, 1920,0315.2

  • Vase Number: 4804
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE B
  • Date: -550 to -500
  • Decoration: A: THESEUS AND MINOTAUR BETWEEN DRAPED MEN WITH SPEARS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
    B: THESEUS AND MINOTAUR BETWEEN WOMEN WITH SPEARS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1920.3-15.2
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.He.7, PL.(155) 35.3A-B View Whole CVA Plates
    Korte-Kondi, Onlookers in Representations of Deeds and Games in Ancient Greek Art (Salonica, 1979): FIG.7 (A)
    NOTES FROM BEAZLEY ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC MOUNT(S): RECALLS WITTER [WITT PAINTER ?] [BEAZLEY]
    PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 4 (A, B)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4904
  • AVI Record Number: 4729
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1920-0315-2
  • CAVI Collection: London 1920.3-15.2.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. Unattributed. 550-500 (Bea. Arch.).
  • CAVI Subject: A: Theseus and the Minotaur, between two women with spears. B: similar, but with draped men with spears.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: to left of Theseus' head: ολουυ(ν). To right of the left woman's legs: κοκοκοκο. B: two nonsense inscriptions.
  • CAVI Comments: A and B are reversed in Bea. Arch.
  • CAVI Number: 4729
  • AVI Bibliography: BADB 4804. — H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great Britain 4 (1927), III H e, pl. 35,3a-b. — Korti-Kondi (1979), fig. 7 (B).
  • 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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Last updated 26/07/2024 17:41:00 by Parker, Greg. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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