950, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection, Athens, National Museum, 1.2526
- Vase Number: 950
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
- Shape Name: PLAQUE FRAGMENT
- Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS, ACROPOLIS
- Date: -575 to -525
- Inscriptions: Named: HIMEROS, E[ROS
- Decoration: Obverse: APHRODITE WITH INFANT HIMEROS AND EROS (BOTH NAMED)
- Current Collection: Athens, National Museum: 15131
- Previous Collections:
- Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.2526
- Publication Record: Budin, S. L., The Origin of Aphrodite (Bethesda, 2003): 29, FIG.2F (DRAWING)
Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.91
Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art (Oxford, 1986): PL.9B
Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen, vol.1 (Berlin, 1925): PL.104.2526
Greifenhagen, A., Griechische Eroten (Berlin, 1957): 39, FIG.219
Himmelmann, N., Zur Eigenart des klassischen Götterbildes (Munich, 1959): 14F, FIG.3
Karoglou, K., Attic Pinakes: Votive images in clay. British Archaeological Reports International Series 2104 (Oxford, 2010): 166, FIG.66
Lacroix, L., Etudes d'archeologie numismatique (Paris, 1974): PL.2.1
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.126, APHRODITE 1255
Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 141, FIG.1
Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 152, FIG.67
Pellegrini, E., Eros nella Grecia arcaica e classica, iconografia e iconologia (Rome, 2009): PL.16
Rosenzweig, R., Worshipping Aphrodite, Art and Cult in Classical Athens (Ann Arbor, 2004): FIG.12
Schefold, K., Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art. English translation by A. Griffiths (Cambridge, 1992): FIG.11
Schefold, K., Gotter und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spatarchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1978): 21, FIG.11
Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.53B
Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 110, FIG.62
Simon, E., Die Götter der Griechen (Munich, 1969): 230, FIG.218
Smith, A.C. and Pickup, S. (eds.), Brill's Companion to Aphrodite (Leiden, 2010): 204, FIG.10.1
Stampolidis, N.C. and Tassoulas, Y. (eds.), Eros: from Hesiod’s Theogony to Late Antiquity, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 10th December 2009-11th April 2010 (Athens, 2009): 83, NO.6 (COLOUR OF OV)
Thomsen, A., Die Wirkung der Götter, Bilder mit Flügelfiguren auf griechischen Vasen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Berlin and Boston, 2011): 270, FIG.112
Vermeule, E., Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Berkeley, 1979): 152, FIG.5 - AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=1297
- AVI Record Number: 1182
- LIMC ID: 20900
- LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74cbc85f8521e-2
- CAVI Collection: Athens, N.M. Acr. i, 2526.
- CAVI Lemma: Fr. of BF plaque. From Athens. Unattributed. Ca. 550.
- CAVI Subject: Upper right portion of plaque: Aphrodite holding the nude Himeros in her
right arm and Eros in the left.
- CAVI Inscriptions: Around Himeros' head: hιμερος, retr. Above Eros' head: Ε[ρος].
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} there said to be wrongly put together.
- CAVI Comments: = Athens, N.M. 15,131. - Very neat writing.
- CAVI Number: 1182
- AVI Bibliography: BADB 950 (much bibl.). — Seltman (1923–5), 89f., fig. 1 (first publication).
— Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, no. 2526, pl. 104. — Beazley–Payne (1929),
263{1}. — Greifenhagen (1957a), 39, fig. 29. — E.T. Vermeule (1979), 152, fig.
5. — LIMC ii (1984), pl. 126, Aphrodite 1255. — Carpenter (1986), pl. 9,b. —
Shapiro (1989), 121, pl. 53,b. — Carpenter (1991), fig. 91.
- 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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