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305500, ATHENIAN, New York (N.Y.), Gallatin, New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum, 41.162.30

  • Vase Number: 305500
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: LEKYTHOS
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATTICA
  • Date: -525 to -475
  • Attributed To: SAPPHO P by HASPELS
  • Decoration: Body: INTRODUCTION OF HERAKLES TO OLYMPOS, IRIS, ATHENA, DOG, ZEUS SEATED ON CHAIR WITH THUNDERBOLT AND SCEPTRE, GANYMEDE WITH OINOCHOE, ARES WITH SPEAR AND HELMET, LION, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
  • Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 41.162.30
  • Previous Collections:
    • New York (N.Y.), Gallatin
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 507.10
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: CAMBRIDGE (MA), FOGG MUSEUM AND GALLATIN COLLECTIONS, 94, PL.(393) 45.1A-C View Whole CVA Plates
    Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 226.10, PL.35.1 (PART)
    PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 3
    Villanueva Puig, M-C. et al., Dossier, Des vases pour les Atheniens, VIe-IVe siecle avant notre ere. Metis 12 (2014): 187, FIG.5 (PART)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=5890
  • AVI Record Number: 5667
  • LIMC ID: 22346
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74e03db719251-4
  • CAVI Collection: New York 41.162.30.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF/WG lekythos. From Attica{1}. Sappho Painter. Late sixth.
  • CAVI Subject: Heracles introduced into Olympus, with Iris, Athena, Zeus, Ganymede, and Ares.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense (imitation letters): to the right of Iris' mouth: γσ(γ)γσ. To right of Athena's mouth: μγσ(.)(.)(μ). To right of her body: (.)(ο)συυσ(γ)γ. Around Zeus' chest and head: traces of 5 letters. On Ares' left: ον(ο)α̣χ̣.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} from the same tomb as New York 41.162.29.
  • CAVI Comments: Ex Gallatin. Letters have partly flaked off; the readings are uncertain, the mu's probably misread.
  • CAVI Number: 5667
  • AVI Bibliography: Richter (1930), 217,d (part). — Haspels (1936), 97 n. 7, 98, 226/10, pl. 35.1 (part, showing the second and third inscriptions). — G.H. Chase and M.Z. Pease, CVA Fogg & Gallatin, USA 8 (1942), pl. 45,1. — ABV (1956), 507/10, 702.
  • 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/579888
  • Coordinates: 38.0519988333,23.8189911
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 38.0519988333,23.8189911
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Last updated 15/12/2025 06:50:00. Approved 01/05/2025 07:33:56 by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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