Decoration: Body: APOLLO AT ALTAR, WITH KITHARA AND PHIALE POURING LIBATION, WINGED WOMAN WITH OINOCHOE (NIKE OR IRIS ?), ATHENA, ARTEMIS, LETO, HERMES (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Previous Collections:
Basel, market, Münzen und Medaillen A.G.
Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1978.45
Publication Record: Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 145 (MARCH 1997) 106-107 (COLOUR OF PART) Godart, L. and De Caro, S. (eds.), Nostoi, Capolavori Ritrovati, Roma, Palazzo del Quirinale, Galleria di Alessandro VII, 21 dicembre 2007 - 2 marzo 2008 (Rome, 2007): 92-93 (COLOUR OF PART) Kunstwerke der Antike, Münzen und Medaillen, A.G., Basel, sale catalogue: 51 (14-15.3.1975), PLS.38-40, NO.155 Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 525, PL.41 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.260, APOLLON 860 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.260, HERMES 744 (PARTS) Marchetti, C. (ed.), L'Arma per l'Arte, Archeologia che ritorna (Livorno, 2009): 65 (COLOUR OF PART) Metis: 5 (1990) 1-2, 70, FIG.11 Morais, R., Leao, D., and Rodriguez Perez, D. (eds.), Greek Art in Motion, Studies in Honour of Sir John Boardman on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday (Oxford, 2019): 146, FIG.10, BOTTOM RIGHT (COLOUR OF PART) Padgett, J.M. (ed.), The Berlin Painter and His World, Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C., Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series (New Haven and London, 2017): 58-59, FIGS.19-20, 397, NO.BN40 (COLOUR OF BD AND PARTS) Palagia, O. and Wescoat, B.D. (eds.), Samothracian Connections, Essays in honour of James R. McCredie (Oxford, 2010): 57, FIG.5.10 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: RF hydria (kalpis). Berlin Painter. First quarter fifth. Middle period: ca.
485 (Cahn).
CAVI Subject: Apollo and other divinities at a sacrifice: at right, Apollo with kithara and
phiale turns back toward Iris; altar; Artemis and Leto. At Apollo's left, a
winged Iris(1) approaches to fill his phiale. The other two figures are in a
procession behind Artemis and Leto: Athena; Hermes looking back at Iris.
CAVI Inscriptions: To left of Leto's right shoulder: Λετ[ο], retr. Behind Artemis' left elbow:
[Αρτ]εμις. To left of Athena's face: Αθεναια, retr. To right of Hermes' upper
left arm: hερ[με]ς. Under the foot, Gr.: nu reversed or sigma lying down.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Nike, according to Bea. Arch.
CAVI Comments: Apollo and Iris are not named. It is unusual to have inscriptions so late in
the Berlin Painter's work, if Cahn's date is right; AttScr (1990), 82 may need
correction.
CAVI Number: 2826
AVI Bibliography: BADB 84. — M&M-Auction (1975), pls. 38-40/155. — LIMC ii (1984), pl. 260,
Apollon 860.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
