Attributed To: EPIKTETOS by SIGNATURE PYTHON by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND BUSIRIS, BLACK ATTENDANTS FLEEING, ONE WITH KNIFE, ONE WITH OINOCHOE, ONE WITH PIPES (?) B: SYMPOSIUM, MEN, YOUTH WITH OINOCHOE, WOMAN PLAYING PIPES I: KOMOS, YOUTH PLAYING PIPES, WOMAN IN NEBRIS WITH KROTALA
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E38
Publication Record: Antike Welt: 1988, SONDERNUMMER, 49, FIG.73 (I) Averna, E., Intrattentmenti ludici dalla preistoria al medioevo (Rome, 2009): 278, FIG.130 (I) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 72.16, 1623 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 46.15 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 25.7 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 328 Birchall, A. and Corbett, P., Greek Gods and Heroes (London,1974): FIG.32 (A) Boardman, J. (ed.), La ceramica antica (Milan, 1984): 212 (I) Boardman, J. with Charleston, R.J., Cook, R.M., and Hennessy, J.B., Die Keramik der Antike, Mesopotamien, Agypten, Griechenland, Italien (Freiburg, Basel, and Wien, 1985): 212 (COLOUR OF A) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): 58, HEAD DETAILS 2 Boardman, J., The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity (London, 1994): 249, FIG.7.22C (DRAWING OF I) Brijder, H.A.G., Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Proceedings of Vase Symposium (Amsterdam, 1984): 276, FIG.1 (PART OF A) Brommer, F., Herakles, 2nd ed. (Cologne, 1972): PL.11A (A) Bundrick, S.D., Music and Image in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2005): 47, FIG.30 (I) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 82 Buschor, E., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1914): 157 (I) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 167 Carrese, M. et al. (eds.), La musica in Etruria, Atti del convegno internazionale, Tarquinia, 18-20 settembre 2009 (Tarquinia, 2010): 92, FIG.14 (PART OF I) Cazzato, V. (ed.), The Symposion, Drinking Greek Style, Essays on Greek Pleasure 1983-2017 Oswyn Murray (Oxford, 2018): PL.C (DRAWING OF A) Cohen, B. (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal, Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (Leiden, Boston and Köln, 2000): 223, FIG.8.10 (I) Cohen, B., Attic Bilingual Vases (New York, 1978): PL.95.2 (I) Cook, R.M. and Charleston, R., Masterpieces of Western and near-Eastern Ceramics (Tokyo, 1979): PL.62, FIG.45 (I,A) Dierichs, A., Erotik in der Kunst Griechenlands (Mainz, 2008): FRONTISPIECE, 66, FIG.48 (COLOUR OF I) Durand, J.-L., Sacrifice et Labour en Grece ancienne (Paris, 1986): 112, FIG.30 (A) Faulkner, N., A visitor's guide to the ancient Olympics (New Haven and London, 2012): 31, FIG.3 (I) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 237, FIG.100 (B) Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.73.1 (A, B, I) Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.73.2 Gagarin, M. (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford, 2010): VOLUME 5, 21 (I) Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 805, FIG.372 (A) Hagenow, G., Aus dem Weingarten der Antike (Mainz, 1982): 49, FIG.17 (I) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): I, 313 Jacobsthal, P., Ornamente Griechischer Vasen (Berlin, 1927): PL.71a (PART) Jenkins, I. and Turner, V., The Greek Body (London, 2009): 17, FIG.10 (COLOUR OF I) Jenkins, I. et al., Defining Beauty, The Body in ancient Greece (London, 2015): 185, BOTTOM, UNNUMBERED (COLOUR OF I) Journal of Hellenic Studies: 95 (1975) PL.14B (I) Journal of the Walters Art Gallery: 1 (1938) 28, FIG.5 (I) Keuls, E., The Reign of the Phallus (New York, 1985): 164, FIG.137 (I) Lawler, L., Dance in Ancient Greece (London, 1964): 129, FIG.54 (DRAWING OF I) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.128, BOUSIRIS 11 (A) Lissarrague, F. and Thelamon, F. (eds.), Image et Ceramique Grecque (Rouen, 1983): 159, FIG.6 (DRAWING OF A) Micali, G., Storia degli antichi popoli italiani (Florence, 1849): PL.90.1 Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): FIG.23 (I) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 590, FIG.419 (DRAWING OF A) Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst: 27 (1976) 36, FIG.9 (I) Neils, J., Women in the ancient world (London, 2011): 112 (COLOUR OF I) Oakley, J.H. (ed.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume III (Oxford and Philadelphia, 2014): 126, FIG.2 (B) PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 8 (A, AH, PART OF I, DRAWINGS OF A, B, I) Paleothodoros, D., Epictetos (Leuven, 2004): FRONT COVER, PL.43, FIGS.1-3 (A, B, I) Paquette, D., L'Instrument de musique dans la ceramique de la grece antique (Paris, 1984): 135, CB2 (PART OF A) Peschel, I., Die Hetäre bei Symposium und Komos in der attisch rotfigurigen Malerei des 6.-4. Jhs. v.Chr. (Frankfurt, 1987): PLS 55, 82 (B, I) Reinsberg, C., Ehe, Hetärentum und Knabenliebe im antiken Griechenland (Munich, 1989): 95, FIG.41 (I) Revue Archeologique: 1982, 215, FIG.14 (A) Revue Archeologique: 1988, 1, 111, FIG.3 (I) Robertson, C., History of Greek Art (Cambridge, 1975): PL.78A,B (I,A) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 88, PLS.77-78 (B, I) Rouet, P., Approaches to the Study of Attic Vases (Oxford, 2001): PL.16 (I) Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PL.33.2 (I) Schefold, K., Götter und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1978): FIG.172 (A) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe (Munich, 1983): 114, FIG.104 (I) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 114, FIG.104 (I) Schmitt Pantel, P., Aithra et Pandora, Femmes, Genre et Cite dans la Grece antique (Paris, 2009): 161, FIG.12 (B) Seltman, C.T., Attic vase-painting (Cambridge, 1933): PL.12 Sengoku-Haga, K., Jenkins, I., et al., The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece from the British Museum (Osaka, 2011): 162, NO.105 (COLOUR OF I AND B) Settis, S. (ed.), I Greci, Storia Cultura Arte Societa 2, Una storia greca, 1.Formazione (Turin, 1996): 820, FIG.33 (I) Soar, K. and Aamodt, C. (eds.), Archaeological approaches to dance performance (Oxford, 2014): 92, FIG.6 (I) Sonnabend, H. (ed.), Mensch und Landschaft, Lexikon der Historischen Geographie (Stuttgart and Weimar, 1999): 540, FIG.92 (I) Steiner, A., Reading Greek Vases (Cambridge, 2007): 216-217, FIGS.10.3-10.5 (A, B, I) Sweet, W.E., Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece, A Source Book with Translations (Oxford, 1987): 185, PL.63 (I) Swindler, M.H., Ancient painting, from the earliest times to the period of Christian art (New Haven, 1929): FIGS.287, 293 (I, B) West, M.L., Ancient Greek Music (Oxford, 1992): PL.31 (I) van Straten, F.T., Hiera Kala, Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece (Leiden, 1995): FIG.50 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup (Chalcicup). From Vulci. Epiktetos{1}. Python, potter. Early fifth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: komos: a youth playing the flute and a girl dancing. A: Heracles and
Bousiris. B: symposium: three men reclining; girl and boy.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: below margin: Πυθον εποιεσεν. B: between the figures: Επικτετος
εγραφσε[ν].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Douris (B.-O.).
CAVI Comments: B.-O. discusses Robertson's theory that Epiktetos worked late; she rejects it
thinking that Douris imitated Epiktetos. She cites Robertson (1976), 40-41 and
n. 54, figs. 8-11.
CAVI Number: 4451
AVI Bibliography: FR (1904–32), ii, 82-84, pl. 73 (dr.). — ARV[2] (1963), 72/16, 1623. — Para.
(1971), 328. — Robertson (1975), pl. 78,a,b (Int., A). — Add.[2] (1989), 167
(much bibl.). — AttScr (1990), no. 1120. — Robertson (1992), 87, figs. 77-78
(Int., B). — Buitron-Oliver (1995), 57 and n. 380.
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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