7063, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1926,1115.1

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Vase Number: 7063
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: SKYPHOS
Date: -525 to -475
Attributed To: THESEUS P by BORGERS
THESEUS P by FRITZILAS
WHITE HERON GROUP by HASPELS
Decoration: A: AMAZONOMACHY, HERAKLES AND AMAZONS, BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICE, PROTOME OF PIG (? )
B: AMAZONOMACHY, HERAKLES AND AMAZONS, ONE WITH PELTA, BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICE, BIRD
Current Collection: London, British Museum: 1926.11-15.1
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1926,1115.1 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: Borgers, O., The Theseus painter: style, shapes and iconography, Allard Pierson Series 16 (Amsterdam, 2004): PL.7C-D (A, B)
Bothmer, D. von, Amazons in Greek Art (Oxford, 1957): PL.40.1-2 (A,B)
Haspels, C.H.E., Attic Black-figured Lekythoi (Paris, 1936): 253.3
Horst, F. and Keiling, H. (eds.), Bestattungswesen und Totenkult in ur- und frühgeschichtlicher Zeit (Berlin, 1991): 319, FIG.4 (B)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.447, AMAZONES 57 (A)
Phritzilas, S., Ho Zographos tou Thisea, I attiki angeigraphia stin epochi tis neosystatis athenaikis demokratias (Athens, 2006): PLS.7,13, 44.13 (A, B, UH)
LIMC ID: 43413
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-760b11502a50f-7
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1926-1115-1
CAVI Collection: London 1926.11-15.1.
CAVI Lemma: BF skyphos. White-Heron Group (Haspels). First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Heracles attacking a falling Amazon; another. B: similar.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: nonsense: imitation letters: To right of Heracles' forehead: ο(.)(.)(.). To right of the central Amazon: ο(ι)ν.
CAVI Comments: Not listed by Beazley. I do not know if B is inscribed.
CAVI Number: 4738
AVI Bibliography: Haspels (1936), 253/3. — Bothmer (1957), 49/127, pl. 40/142.
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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