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214501, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1847,0806.54

  • Vase Number: 214501
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KRATER, BELL, FRAGMENTS
  • Date: -475 TO -425
  • Attributed To: LONDON E 494, P OF by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: SACRIFICE TO CHRYSE, HERAKLES (DRAPED MAN), SPLANCHNOPT, ATHENA, FIGURE, ALTAR, IDOL ON COLUMN, TREE, PINAKES SUSPENDED
    B: SATYR AND MAENADS
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E494
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Archivo Espanol de Arqueologia: 54 (1981) 23, FIG.4 (DRAWING OF A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1079.3, 1682
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 160
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 326
    Franks, H.M., Hunters, Heroes, Kings. The Frieze of Tomb II at Vergina (Princeton, 2012): 95, FIG.65 (A)
    Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 768, FIG.259 (A)
    Karoglou, K., Attic Pinakes, Votive images in clay. British Archaeological Reports International Series 2104 (Oxford, 2010): 139, FIG.10
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, 287, LICHAS 1 (DRAWING OF A)
    Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 194, FIG.237
    Scheibler, I., Griechische Malerei der Antike (Munich, 1994): 139, FIG.64 (DRAWING OF A)
    van Straten, F.T., Hiera Kala, Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece (Leiden, 1995): FIG.124 (DRAWING)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4782
  • AVI Record Number: 4610
  • LIMC ID: 14535
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-7471999CE27EA-E
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1847-0806-54
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON E 494.
  • CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF RF BELL KRATER. PAINTER OF LONDON E 494{1}. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: A: HERACLES SACRIFICING TO CHRYSE; TO LEFT OF THE ALTAR, A YOUTH (MOSTLY MISSING); A TREE; TO RIGHT OF THE ALTAR, ANOTHER YOUTH; BEHIND HIM, THE XOANON OF CHRYSE; AT RIGHT, A SMALL FEMALE (NIKE?); ATHENA. B: A SATYR AND TWO MAENADS ARE PRESERVED.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: ABOVE THE ALTAR (REFERRING TO THE YOUTH AT ITS LEFT?): Φιλο(σ)κετ(.)[--]{2}. FOR Φιλοκτετες(?). REFERRING TO THE YOUTH AT RIGHT: Λι[χας]. IN FRONT OF ATHENA'S FACE: ---]ν[---, PROBABLY [Αθε]ν[αια].
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} ".. IN SPIRIT AKIN TO THE ACHILLES PAINTER AND THE PERSEPHONE PAINTER," BEAZLEY. {2} ABOVE THE (FOUR-STROKE) SIGMA IS WHAT LOOKS LIKE THE UPPER HALF OF A KAPPA: CORRECTION? FOR PHILOCTETES SEE KRETSCHMER.
  • CAVI Comments: MUCH DISCUSSION OF THE OLDER LITERATURE IN BM CAT. IT IS CLAIMED THAT THE VASE CANNOT BE RECONSTRUCTED AS SUGGESTED BY SMITH IN JHS. MIXED ALPHABET.
  • CAVI Number: 4610
  • AVI Bibliography: C.H. SMITH (1888B), PL. 1 (A). — KRETSCHMER (1894), 183. — C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 300-302, PL. 16 (DR.). — E. BUSCHOR IN FR (1904–32), III, 157. — ARV[2] (1963), 1079/3, 1682. — KRON (1971), 140, FIG. 10. — ADD.[2] (1989), 326. — ROBERTSON (1992), 204 (NOT ILL.).
  • 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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