Decoration: A: GIANT (NAMED) CARRYING ROCK, ATHENA, SPEAR OR STAFF B: DRAPED MEN WITH STAFFS, ONE NAMED, ONE WITH STRING (ARCHITECT ?), TREE
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: G372
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): 382, FIG.4, 585, FIG.43 (A, COLOUR OF B) Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 472, FIG.53 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1300.4 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 366.4 Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987): 74, FIG.1 (PART OF A) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.248 (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 360 Classical Antiquity: 22 (2003) FIG.16 AT 54 (A) 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): FIGS.225-226 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.168.2 (A, B) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): FIG.145, FIG.91 (A) Helbig, W., Strena Helbigiana (1900): 115 Hurwit, J.M., The Athenian Acropolis, History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present (Cambridge, 1998): 75, FIG.53 (A) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 31 (1916) 194-5 Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 28, FIG.4 (B) Neils, J., The Parthenon Frieze (Cambridge, 2001): 13, FIGS.10-11 (A, B) Stutzinger, D., Griechen, Etrusker und Römer, Eine Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt im Spiegel der Sammlungen des Archäologischen Museums Frankfurt (Regensburg, 2012): 113, FIG.105A (PART OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF skyphos. From Nola. Penelope Painter. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: The Building of the Acropolis Wall: A: Athena and a giant (as λιθαγωγος). B:
two giants: the overseer (επισκοπος) and the architect; in the center, an olive
tree.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: above the giant: Γιγας{1}. B: Above the left giant: Φιλυας.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the first letter has a short, diagonally upward, stroke below the
horizontal, which makes it look a bit like a digamma.
CAVI Comments: Ionic alphabet. Robertson: a propos of B: "The [overseer] is named Philyas,
and an attractive theory sees an allusion here to Phidias who at this time was
Pericles' overseer of building works on the Acropolis."
CAVI Number: 6534
AVI Bibliography: E. Buschor in FR (1904–32), iii, 298-301, pl. 168,2. — ARV[2] (1963), 1300/4.
— Add.[2] (1989), 360. — Boardman (1989), fig. 248. — Robertson (1992), 219.
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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