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275053, ATHENIAN, Basel, private, Herbert Cahn, Philadelphia (PA), market, HC133

  • Vase Number: 275053
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: CORAL RED
  • Shape Name: CUP, FRAGMENT
  • Date: -525 TO -475
  • Attributed To: Perhaps THALIA P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: AMAZONS IN SCYTHIAN CAPS, SOME LEADING HORSES, ONE WITH WRITING TABLET
    B: YOUTHS IN PETASOI, CHLAMYDES AND BOOTS, WITH SPEARS, LEADING HORSES
    I: WARRIOR (AJAX OR ACHILLES) PLAYING, KNEELING
  • Last Recorded Collection: Basel, private, Herbert Cahn: HC133
  • Previous Collections:
    • Philadelphia (PA), market
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1626,1708
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 332
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 174
    Ellinghaus, C., Die Parthenonskulpturen, Der Bauschmuck eines öffentlichen Monumentes der demokratischen Gesellschaft Athens zur Zeit des Perikles, Techniken in der bildenden Kunst zur Tradierung von Aussagen (Hamburg, 2011): FIG.184 (PART)
    Fehr, B., Becoming Good Democrats and Wives. Civic Education and Female Socialization on the Parthenon Frieze, Hephaistos Sonderband (Vienna, Zurich, Berlin, and Münster, 2011): 27, FIGS.14A-D (A, B)
    Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 518, FIG.352 (A)
    Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 90 (2021) 649, FIG.7 (COLOUR OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.100, ACHILLEUS 419 (I)
    Lissarrague, F., L'Autre Guerrier, Archers, Peltastes, Cavaliers dans l'Imagerie Attique (Paris-Rome, 1990): 224, FIG.126 (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
    Neils, J., The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge, 2001): 129, FIG.91 (B)
    Revue Archéologique: 1973, 3-7, FIGS.1-6 (I,A,B)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=2191
  • AVI Record Number: 2056
  • LIMC ID: 44194
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-7615EB30CC022-6
  • CAVI Collection: BASEL, CAHN 133.
  • CAVI Lemma: FRAGMENTARY RF CUP. NEAR THALIA PAINTER (BEAZLEY). LAST QUARTER SIXTH.
  • CAVI Subject: INT.: ACHILLES AND AJAX PLAYING: ONE HERO IS PRESERVED AT A GAMING TABLE. A-B: YOUTHS WITH HORSES: (ON ONE SIDE?): THREE YOUTHS WITH THEIR HORSES MOVE TOWARD A STANDING SCRIBE (HIS HEAD IS LOST), IN A SIMILAR THRACIAN COSTUME, WITH OPEN TABLETS AND STYLUS POISED TO WRITE.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: EXT.: BETWEEN THE SCRIBE AND THE FIRST HORSE: Μελανθι[--]{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} ACCORDING TO CAHN THE NAME OF THE HORSE.
  • CAVI Comments: EX PHILADELPHIA MARKET. CLEARLY DOKIMASIA.
  • CAVI Number: 2056
  • AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 1626, 1708. — PARA. (1971), 332. — CAHN (1973), 3-7, FIGS. 1-6 (ALL). — ADD.[2] (1989), 174 (BIBL.). — LISSARRAGUE (1990), 226, FIG. 126 (DETAIL), 301/C 34.
  • 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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Last updated 15/12/2025 06:09:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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