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) 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)
