Attributed To: EXEKIAS by BEAZLEY EXEKIAS by BRONEER
Decoration: A: CHARIOT OF ATHENA, HERAKLES, APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA, ARTEMIS, POSEIDON, GODDESS, HERMES, WOMEN SEATED, ONE ON BOX, GRAPEVINE (NAMED) B: FIGHT FOR THE BODY OF PATROKLOS, ACHILLES, WARRIORS (NAMED, HEKTOR, DIOMEDES), GRAPEVINE, DEVICE, TRISKELES Frieze below: ANIMAL FRIEZE, LIONS ATTACKING BULL Under handle: SATYR
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: AP1044
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 145.19 Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 672.4 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 60 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 40 Classical Antiquity: 8 (1989) PL.5 AT 115 (A, B) Frank, S., Attische Kelchkratere, eine Untersuchung zum Zusammenspiel von Gefässform und Bemalung (Frankfurt, 1990): PL.1.3-4 (A,B) Gerion: 6 (1988) 47, FIG.2 (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Gerion: 6 (1988), 47, FIG.2 (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): PL.23B (B) Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.8.30-33 (PARTS OF A AND B) Jarva, E., Archaiologia on Archaic Greek Body Armour, Studi Archaeologica Septentrionalia 3 (Rovaniemi, 1995): 61 (1991-2), 1, 53, FIG. 7 (PART OF A) Knittlmayer, B., Die Attische Demokratie und ihre Helden, Darstellungen des trojanischen Sagenkreises im 6. und frühen 5. Jh.v.Chr. (Heidelberg, 1997): PL.11.3 (B) Kunze-Götte, E., Myrte (Kilchberg, 2006): 27, FIG.9 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.367, POSEIDON 165 (PART OF A) Mackay, E.A., Tradition and Originality, A Study of Exekias (Oxford, 2010): PL.81 (A, B) Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 201, FIGS.102-103 (PARTS) Papadopoulos, J.K., The Art of Antiquity, Piet de Jong and the Athenian Agora (Athens, 2007): 41, FIG.57, 191, FIGS.164A-B (COLOUR DRAWING OF A, B, AND PART) 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.70 (COLOUR OF A) Schefold, K., Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art. English translation by A. Griffiths (Cambridge, 1992): FIGS.40, 304 (A, PART OF A) Settis, S. (ed.), I Greci, Storia Cultura Arte Societa 2, Una storia greca, 1.Formazione (Turin, 1996): 1204, FIG.28 (B) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.24C (A) Vermeule, E., Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Berkeley, 1979): 92, FIG.12 (PART) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art, Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 86, FIG.10 (PART OF B)
CAVI Lemma: BF calyx krater. From Athens. Exekias. Third quarter sixth. 540-530.
CAVI Subject: A: chariot of Athena with Heracles beside her in a chariot (Moore). B: fight
over the body of Patroclus.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Heracles' (lost) head: [hερ]α̣κλες. Απολ[λ]ον. Αρτ̣[ε]μις.
Ποσειδον. Ονετοριδε[ς] καλος. hερμες. B: Διομεδες, retr., sigma reversed.
hεγτορ, retr. Π̣ατ̣ρ̣οκλος.
CAVI Comments: The horses are not named but branded with rosettes; for such brands see Moore
(1968), 366f. - The lettering differs from other vases by Exekias; see AttScr.
CAVI Number: 1795
AVI Bibliography: Broneer (1938a), 161, pl. 16,B (phot.). — ABV (1956), 145/19. — Broneer
(1956), 345 ff., pls. 50 and 51,a. — Moore (1968), 358/13. — Para. (1971), 60
(bibl.). — Dev.[2] (1986), pls. 72-73. — Moore (1986a), 35-39, pl. 2, figs. 1-2,
dr. p. 37. — Add.[2] (1989), 40 (bibl.). — AttScr (1990), no. 139, figs. 30-33.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
