Decoration: A: DEEDS OF THESEUS, PROKRUSTES, BULL, TREE, ROCKS B: THESEUS AND THE SOW, AND SINIS (OR PERIPHETES ?), SEATED ON ROCK I: YOUTH LEADING WOMAN (WEDDING OF HELEN AND MENELAOS ?), DOOR
Last Recorded Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco
Previous Collections:
Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia
Paris, Musée du Louvre: G265
Publication Record: Avramidou, A. and Demetriou, D. (eds.), Approaching the Ancient Artifact, Representation, Narrative, and Function. A Festschrift in Honor of H. Alan Shapiro (Berlin and Boston, 2014): 85, FIG.6 (PART OF B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 416.1 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 195.15 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 234 Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 373, FIG.307 (A, B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PLS.626-627, THESEUS 43 (A, B) Lissarrague, F. et al. (eds.), Ceramique et peinture Grecques, Modes d'emploi, Actes du colloque internat., Ecole du Louvre, April 1995 (Paris, 1999): 204-205, FIGS.1-6 (I, A, B) Pottier, E., Vases antiques du Louvre (Paris, 1897-1922): I, PL.133 Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 77, FIG.29 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci. Painter of Louvre G 265{1}. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Int.: a youth leading a woman away (wedding of Menelaus and Helen?){2}. Ext.:
Deeds of Theseus: A: the bull, with a satyr; Procroustes. B: the sow; Sinis.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Mild-Brygan Group. {2} so Beazley. {3} the ninth letter is reversed. {4}
the second letter is upside down. {5} the locations on the Ext. are not given.
CAVI Comments: + Florence and Villa Giulia. This type of inscription is characteristic of
the Briseis Painter; cf. Beazley in CB.
CAVI Number: 6521
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), ii, 40 (mention). — ARV[2] (1963), 416/1. — Add.[2] (1989),
234. — Serbeti (1989), 41.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
