Attributed To: EUPHRONIOS by OHLY-DUMM EUPHRONIOS by ROBERTSON KACHRYLION by SIGNATURE OLTOS by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: THESEUS ABDUCTING ANTIOPE (AS SCYTHIAN ARCHER IN PATTERNED SUIT), WARRIORS, CHARIOT B: DRAPED MAN OR YOUTH AND WOMAN WITH FLOWER, BETWEEN HORSEMEN I: YOUTH WITH LYRE (THESEUS ?) AND WOMAN
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E41
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 85 (1981) PLS.40-1, FIGS.1, 3, 4 (I,A,B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 58.51, 1622 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 37.40 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 13.27 Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): D, PL.7.1 Buitron-Oliver, D. (ed.), New Perspectives in Early Greek Art (Hanover and London, 1991): 132, FIG.12, 134, FIG.17 (A, I) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 80 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 164 Cohen, A., Art in the Era of Alexander the Great, Paradigms of Manhood and their Cultural Traditions (Cambridge, 2010): 52, FIG.12 (A) Cohen, B., Attic Bilingual Vases (New York, 1978): PL.86.2-3 (A,B) Denoyelle, M. (ed.), Euphronios Peintre, Recontres de l'Ecole du Louvre 10 Octobre 1990 (Paris, 1992): 83, FIG.5 (PART OF A) Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica: SUPP. II.2, PL. AT P.609 (COLOUR OF I AND B) Heilmeyer, W-D. and Giuliani, L. (eds.), Euphronios, der Maler, eine Ausstellung in der Sonderausstellungshalle der Staatlichen Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin-Dahlem, 20.3. - 26.5.1991 (Milan, 1991): 191-192, NO.36 (COLOUR OF I, A AND B) Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 80 (2011) 498, FIG.5 (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, 156 Hägg, R. (ed.), Ancient Greek Hero Cult, Proceedings of the 5th International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult (Stockholm, 1999): 102, FIG.2 (B) J. Paul Getty Museum Journal: 9 (1981) 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): 263, FIGS.209A-B (I, B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.683, ANTIOPE II 8 (A) Meyer, M. and Adornato, G. (eds.), Innovations and Inventions in Athens c. 530 to 470 BCE, Two Crucial Generations. Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 18 (Vienna, 2020): FIG.10.1 (COLOUR OF A) Morris, S.P., Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art (Princeton, 1992): FIG.55 (A) Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): 9, FIG.26 (I) Museo italiano di antichita classica (Florence, 1885-90): III, 276 Neer, R.T., Style and Politics in Athenian Vase-Painting, The Craft of Democracy, ca.530-460 B.C.E. (Cambridge, 2002): 202, FIG.101 (A) Oakley, J., The Greek Vase, Art of the Story Teller (London, 2013): 74, FIG.11 (COLOUR OF A) Perrot, G., Chipiez, C., Histoire de l'art dans l'antiquite, vols. IX-X (Paris, 1911-14): X, 383, FIGS.228, 384 Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 23, FIG.17 (A) Schefold, K., Götter und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1978): FIG.205 (I) Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 112, FIG.47 (I) Steiner, A., Reading Greek Vases (Cambridge, 2007): 105, FIG.6.7 (DRAWINGS OF I, A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup{1}. From Vulci. Oltos; very early Euphronios{2}. Cachrylion, potter.
Last quarter sixth. Ca. 520. Early (ARV[2]).
CAVI Subject: Int.: Theseus and a maiden{3}. A: Theseus and Antiope. B: a man (or youth)
and a woman between two boys on horseback{4}.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: from the top of Theseus' head (not from the mouth, which is closed):
χαιρε συ{5}. A: [Θεσε]υς, retr. Αντιοπεια. Περιθος, retr. Φορ(β)ας, retr. B:
Χαχ[ρ]υλιον εποιεσε[ν]{6}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the foot is missing, see ARV[2] 1622. {2} Oltos, Beazley; Euphronios,
very early, Robertson, Ohly-Dumm. {3} one of the rescued maidens, cf. the
victory dance on the François Vase (Beazley, ARV[2]); or Ariadne (Murray, J.
Neils in AJA). {4} Theseus and Helen (Neils). {5} often considered a greeting,
but in AttScr (1990) I consider it rather the painter's comment. {6} the verb is
on the Villa Giulia fr. {7} Euphr. has dotted theta; the photo is not clear: it
could be a cartwheel theta. Very small letters; neater than elsewhere for Oltos,
but in the early style of Euphronios.
CAVI Comments: = 1837.6-9.58. + Villa Giulia (Cats., no. 37). J. Neils' paper: 3 scenes
dealing with three loves of Theseus: Int.: Antiope; A: Ariadne (so Murray); B:
fragmentary: N. thinks Helen and Theseus. The Int. is influenced by the Eretria
pediment where Robertson, Neils agreeing, reads the inscription on the chariot
rail as [Θ]εσε[υς]. But Greifenhagen, JBBerlMus 3 (1961) had denied any
mythological interpretation, citing Oxford 1927.4065 where the woman on the Int.
is a hetaera. Cartwheel theta?{7}.
CAVI Number: 4454
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 8231. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 66 f. (not
ill.). — Greifenhagen (1961), 122 n. 10. — ARV[2] (1963), 1577/1 (new fr.: Villa
Giulia). — ARV[2] (1963), 58/51, 1622. — Neils (1981a), 177-79, pls. 40-41. —
Robertson (1981a), 26 and n. 2, 34 (photo of Villa Giulia fr.). — Add.[2]
(1989), 164. — AttScr (1990), no. 337. — Gilotta (1990), 177/37 (ill.; bibl.). —
D. Williams (1990), 174/36. — Robertson (1992), 22, fig. 17 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
