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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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