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301779, ATHENIAN, Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 61987

  • Vase Number: 301779
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE A
  • Provenance: ITALY, CHIUSI
  • Date: -550 TO -500
  • Inscriptions: Named: ANPHIAREOS, ERIPHYLE, [AL]KMEON, EUPOLEMOS, ARTEMIDOS, HERMO, APOLON, LETOU[S]
  • Attributed To: PRIAM P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: AMPHIARAOS (NAMED) MOUNTING CHARIOT, DEPARTING, WARRIORS, ERIPHYLE (NAMED) WITH CHILD
    B: ARTEMIS MOUNTING CHARIOT, APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA, HERMES, WOMAN, VINE
  • Last Recorded Collection: Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 1794
  • Previous Collections:
    • Chiusi, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 61987
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 330.1
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 146
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 89
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: CHIUSI, MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE 1, 14-15, PLS.(2616,2617,2618,2619) 16.6, 17.1-2, 18.1-2, 19.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates
    Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 460, FIG.296 (A)
    Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 218, FIG.4 (A)
    Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias und seine Welt, Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 1.–2. März 2019, Züricher Archäologische Forschungen 8 (Zurich, 2022): PL.25 (COLOUR OF A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=3335
  • AVI Record Number: 3164
  • LIMC ID: 32435
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-756F7A6E05F40-2
  • CAVI Collection: CHIUSI, MUSEO ARCH. NAZIONALE 1794.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF AMPHORA. FROM CHIUSI. PRIAM PAINTER. LAST QUARTER SIXTH. EARLY (BEAZLEY). CA. 510 (CVA).
  • CAVI Subject: A: DEPARTURE OF AMPHIARAUS: A. MOUNTING A CHARIOT; DRIVER, HIS HEAD TURNED BACK; BEHIND THE HORSES ERIPHYLE WITH A SMALL BOY (ALCMEON); IN FRONT OF THE HORSES A YOUNG WARRIOR (EUPOLEMOS?). B: ARTEMIS MOUNTING HER CHARIOT, WITH APOLLO CITHAROEDUS, HERMES AND LETO.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: FROM AMPHIARAUS' MOUTH TO THE DRIVER'S HELMET: αναβα{1}. AROUND AMPHIARAUS' SHIELD, IN FRONT OF HIS BODY: Ανφιαρεος, RETR. TO RIGHT OF ERIPHYLE'S HEAD, CURVING AROUND ONE HORSE'S HEAD: Εριφυλε. ABOVE THE BOY: [Αλ]κμεον{2}. TO RIGHT OF A YOUNG WARRIOR'S LEGS, ALONG THE RIGHT-HAND MARGIN: Ευπολεμος{3}. B: TO RIGHT OF ARTEMIS' BODY: Αρτεμιδος(?){4}. ALONG THE CITHARA OF APOLLO: Hερμο(?){5}. ABOVE HERMES: Απολ[λ]ον. THE NAMES REVERSED (MISAPPLIED). BETWEEN LETO'S AND HORSES' LEGS: Λετου[ς]{6}. UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: ΣΟ, WITH THREE-STROKE SIGMA.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} SURELY SPOKEN BY THE DRIVER, BUT THE INSCRIPTION IS NOT RETR. {2} Αλκμεον, CVA, BUT THERE IS A REPAIRED AREA ON THE LEFT. {3} SO CVA, BUT I READ IN THE PHOTO [.]λ[.](ν)πολεμος, WITH REVERSED NU, AND THOUGHT OF [Τ]λ[ε](ν)πολεμος(?). EUPOLEMOS IS A HISTORICAL, RATHER THAN A MYTHICAL, NAME. {4} ARTEMIDS, CVA, SURELY IN ERROR. OR Αρτεμιδ[ο]ς? {5} HERM[O]N, CVA! {6} SO THE PHOTO. CVA HAS LETON!
  • CAVI Comments: A. JOHNSTON THINKS THAT THE GR. REFERS TO SOSTRATOS, THE AEGINETAN TRADER: SEE JOHNSTON (1972), 416-23.
  • CAVI Number: 3164
  • AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — DE WITTE (1867A), 213FF. — KRETSCHMER (1894), 86 AND 196F. — ABV (1956), 330/1. — PARA. (1971), 146. — MOORE (1972), 111 N. 752, PL. 58,1. — JOHNSTON (1979), 81/21A 55A, FIG. 2,CC. — A. RASTRELLI, CVA CHIUSI 1, ITALY 59 (1981), PLS. 17,1-2, 18,1-2, AND 19,1-3; DR. OF GR. P. 14; PHOTO OF GR., PL. 19,3. (MUCH BIBL.). — ADD.[2] (1989), 89.
  • 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/413096
  • Coordinates: 43.016948,11.948318
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 43.016367,11.9487025
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