Attributed To:Close to EXEKIAS by BEAZLEY Compare TALEIDES P by BEAZLEY Compare TOWRY WHYTE P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: KASTOR AND POLYDEUKES (BOTH NAMED) HARNESSING CHARIOT, YOUTHS (NAMED), HELEN (NAMED), HORSE (NAMED) B: VINTAGE, DIONYSOS (NAMED) SEATED ON STOOL WITH KANTHAROS, VINE, SATYRS PICKING GRAPES, BASKETS
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1963.952
Previous Collections:
Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 63.952
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 62, 317 Buitron-Oliver, D. (ed.), New Perspectives in Early Greek Art (Hanover and London, 1991): 32, 40, FIG.4 (B, COLOUR OF B) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 41 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 1, 9-10, FIG.14, PL.(634) 12.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates Dietrich, N. and Squire, M. (eds.), Ornament and Figure in Graeco-Roman Art, Rethinking visual Ontologies in Classical Antiquity (Berlin and Boston, 2018): 75, FIG.3.1 (B) Dietrich, N., Das Attribut als Problem, Eine bildwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur griechischen Kunst (Berlin, Munich, and Boston, 2018): 40, FIG.1.10 (B) Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 75, FIG.54 (A) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 476, FIG.310 (A) Holmberg, E.J., On the Rycroft Painter and other Black-Figure Vase-Painters with a Feeling for Nature (Jonsered, 1992): 31, FIG.19 (B) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Civilizing Violence, Satyrs on 6th-century Greek Vases (Fribourg and Göttingen, 2004): 76, FIG.36 (DRAWING OF B) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 102 (1987) 95, FIG.26, 106, FIG.30 (A, B) Kondoleon, C., Grossmann, R.A., et al., MFA Highlights, Classical Art (Boston, 2008): 35 (COLOUR OF B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.763, SILENOI 108 (B) Mackay, E.A., Tradition and Originality, A Study of Exekias (Oxford, 2010): PL.79 (A) Mikalson, J.D., Ancient Greek Religion (Malden, 2005): 91, FIG.IV.14 (B) Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1987): 106, FIG.8 (B) Schmidt, S. and Tsingarida, A. (eds.), Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Belgique, Supplément 1. The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum 1922-2022, A Century of Exploring Greek Vases: Typologies, Readings and Debates (Contents), CVA Belgique (Brussels, 2024): 290, FIG.7 (COLOUR OF B) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: VIII, PL.43, CAT.81 (B) Tsaknis, N., Trophies of the Argonauts (Volos, 2004): 63 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Lemma: BF AMPHORA. MANNER OF EXEKIAS (CLOSE TO HIM). THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. 550-540.
CAVI Subject: A: CASTOR AND POLLUX HARNESSING THEIR CHARIOT. B: DIONYSUS SEATED IN HIS
VINEYARD, WITH SATYRS CAVORTING IN THE ARBOR; BASKETS (VINTAGE).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: ABOVE THE HEAD OF A WOMAN AT LEFT: Hελενε. BEHIND THE HEAD AND BACK OF A
YOUTH MOUNTING THE CHARIOT: [Π]ολυδευκες, RETR. SIMILAR FOR A YOUTH WHO STANDS
BEHIND THE HORSES: Αισχινες, RETR. ABOVE THE HEAD OF A FIGURE IN LONG CHITON WHO
STANDS BEHIND THE FORWARD HORSE: Καστορ. BELOW THE REAR HORSE'S HEAD: ΣιμοΙς.
[THE FINAL SIGMA PLACED BELOW THE OMICRON FOR LACK OF SPACE.] TO LEFT OF THE
FRONT HORSE'S FRONT LEGS: Κασον καλος, RETR. [NOTE THE SPACING: Κασον ^ κα^λος;
^ INDICATES ONE EMPTY LETTER SPACE.] TO LEFT OF THE LEGS OF A NUDE YOUTH WHO IS
CALMING THE FRONT HORSE, FACING HIM: Ευρυλοχος, RETR. THERE IS ANOTHER
INSCRIPTION ABOVE THE YOUTH'S HEAD AND BY THE FRONT HORSE'S HEAD: PROBABLY THE
OTHER HORSE'S NAME [XANTHOS??]. B: AT UPPER RIGHT: Διονυσος.
CAVI Comments: CARPENTER 93 N. 82 RIGHTLY SAYS THAT THE BASKETS ON B SHOW THAT IT IS A
VINTAGE SCENE. W.G. MOON, ED., ANCIENT GREEK ART AND ICONOGRAPHY (MADISON 1983)
110-13 AND 155 N. 5; IDEM, GVGETTYMUS 2 (1985) 63, FIGS. 18,A-B: THE
LERICI-MARESCOTTI BF AMPHORA BY THE PRIAM PAINTER HAS A VERY SIMILAR VINTAGE
SCENE ON A. - SHAPIRO REFERS TO HERMARY (1978), 70 N. 94: THE DIOSCURI ARE
LEAVING FOR THE FUNERAL GAMES OF PELIAS.
CAVI Number: 2811
AVI Bibliography: MUSEUM PHOTO (B). — PARA. (1971), 62, 317. — SCHEIBLER (1987), 95, FIGS. 26
(A) AND 30 (B). — ADD.[2] (1989), 41. — SHAPIRO (1989), 152 AND N. 86.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
