Decoration: A: ATHENA WITH SPEAR, PERSEUS AND MEDUSA B: WOMEN, ONE WITH PHIALE, ONE WITH OINOCHOE, DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 45.11.1
Publication Record: Annales d'histoire et d'Art et archeologie, Universite de Bruxelles: 13 (1991), 17, FIG.10 (PART OF A) Annales d'histoire et d'Art et archeologie, Universite de Bruxelles: 17, FIG.10 (PART OF A) Antiques, The Magazine: DECEMBER 1995, 797. PL.15 (COLOUR OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1032.55 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 442 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.136 (A) Borchardt, J. (ed.), Götter, Heroen, Herrscher in Lykien (Vienna and Munich, 1990): 139, NO.30 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 155 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 318 Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 76.1 (2007) 75, FIG.2 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.183, GORGO, GORGONES 301 (A) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 59, PL.44 (A) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 17, 414, NO.136 (COLOUR OF A, PART OF A, B) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 414, NO.136 (COLOUR OF A, B) Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 104, FIG.126 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From South Italy. Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: A: Perseus cutting off the head of Medusa. B: a king and women.
CAVI Inscriptions: B: the king: Πολυπειθες.
CAVI Comments: Pape lists Polypeithes as a Spartan Olympic victor and as the father of the
Athenian tragedian Philocles from a sister of Aeschylus. Philocles defeated
Sophocles' OT. See stemma in PA i, p. 34 and biography under 14529. It seems to
me quite possible that the king's name here is a mythical transfer of an
Athenian historical name, as elsewhere in Polygnotos (Deinomache!). Ionic lambda
and sigma.
CAVI Number: 5698
AVI Bibliography: Richter (1958), 128 and n. 91, fig. 96 (A, part). — ARV[2] (1963), 1032/55. —
Para. (1971), 442. — LIMC iv (1988), pl. 183, Gorgones 301. — Add.[2] (1989),
318. — Matheson (1995), 58, 227, 359/60, pl. 44.
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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