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213394, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection, 18063

  • Vase Number: 213394
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: STAMNOS
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS, ACROPOLIS
  • Date: -475 TO -425
  • Inscriptions: Named: THESEUS, HELENE, PERESOS, THOIBA
  • Attributed To: POLYGNOTOS by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: THESEUS AND HELEN, PERITHOOS MOUNTING CHARIOT (ALL NAMED), WOMAN (PHOIBE ?) FLEEING (NAMED)
    B: MAENADS, ONE WITH THYRSOS, ONE WITH KANTHAROS, SATYR DANCING
  • Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 18063
  • Publication Record: Albersmeier, S. (ed.), Heroes, Mortals and Myths in ancient Greece (Baltimore, 2009): 53, FIG.23 (A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1028.13, 1678
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 155
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 317
    Cohen, A. and Rutter, J.B. (eds.), Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy, Hesperia Supplement 41 (Princeton, 2007): 265, FIG.13.9 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.297, HELENE 35 (A)
    Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 68, PL.53 (A)
    Pamias, J. (ed.), Parua Mythographica (Oberhaid, 2011): 108, FIG.3 (A)
    Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 262, FIG.312 (A)
    Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 156, FIG.64 (A)
    Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst, Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 864, DADA281 (A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=1046
  • AVI Record Number: 931
  • LIMC ID: 10634
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-743A336E9D2FB-B
  • CAVI Collection: ATHENS, N.M. 18,063.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF STAMNOS. FROM MARATHON? POLYGNOTOS. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: A: ABDUCTION OF HELEN BY THESEUS: YOUTH WITH TWO SPEARS AND WOMAN; HELMETED YOUTH MOUNTING CHARIOT TO RIGHT; WOMAN TO LEFT{1}. B: DANCING SATYR BETWEEN TWO MAENADS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: Θεσευς. Hελενε. Περησος. Φοιβα. B: LETTERS TO LEFT OF THE LEFT MAENAD, BELOW THE SATYR'S OUTSTRETCHED ARM AND BEARING SLIGHTLY UPWARD, INCLUDE AN OMICRON. SOME LETTERS TO RIGHT OF THE LEFT MAENAD'S CHEST: λο̣? ABOVE THE SATYR, NEAR-HORIZONTAL: κα[λ]ος{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} WITH A QUESTION MARK, ARV[2]; THE INSCRIPTIONS PROVE IT. {2} UNCERTAIN READING.
  • CAVI Comments: KYRIAZIS COLLECTION. PHOIBE IS A SISTER OF HELEN.
  • CAVI Number: 0931
  • AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 1028/13, 1678. — PHILIPPAKI (1967), 147, PL. 61, 1. — KAROUZOU (1970), 230-49, FIGS. 1-5, 7-8. — LIMC IV (1988), 509, HELENE 35, PL. 297. — ADD.[2] (1989), 317. — MATHESON (1995), 224, 348/P13, PL. 53.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: HTTPS://PLEIADES.STOA.ORG/PLACES/638356144
  • Coordinates: 37.971422,23.726167
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 37.971421,23.726166

Last updated 15/12/2025 05:11:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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