Attributed To: PROMETHEUS P by BOTHMER TYRRHENIAN GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body 1: THESEUS (IN NEBRIS) AND THE MINOTAUR, HERMES, DRAPED MEN AND YOUTH, WOMEN, ONE SEATED, ONE WITH SPEAR (ATHENA), SOME WITH WREATHS, BETWEEN COCKS Body 2: SPHINXES BETWEEN PANTHERS Body 3: ANIMAL FRIEZES, COCKS BETWEEN SPHINXES, BETWEEN PANTHERS, SIRENS BETWEEN LIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden: XIV3
Previous Collections:
Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden: PC47
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 104.126 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 28 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LEIDEN, RIJKSMUSEUM VAN OUDHEDEN 1, 4-5, PL.(98) 4.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Wien: 74 (2005) 200-201, FIGS.21-23 (BD) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.318, MINOTAUROS 18, PL.312, MINOS I 16 (PARTS) Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 109, FIG.45 (PART) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art, Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 14-19, FIGS.9-16 (COLOUR)
CAVI Lemma: BF TYRRHENIAN HYDRIA. FROM VULCI. PROMETHEUS PAINTER (BOTHMER){1}. SECOND
QUARTER SIXTH. 570-560 (CVA).
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER (TOP FRIEZE): A-B: THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR; AT LEFT, TWO COCKS
FACING; AT RIGHT, A COCK AND A HEN. MIDDLE FRIEZE: A: A LOTUS-PALMETTE BAND. B:
SPHINXES BETWEEN PANTHERS. BOTTOM FRIEZE: A-B: ANIMALS WITH SPHINXES.
CAVI Inscriptions: TOP FRIEZE: A: BY THE RIGHTMOST COCK'S BELLY: Χαιτος̣, RETR. BY THE NECK OF
THE SECOND COCK: Λευκος, RETR.{1}. TO RIGHT OF THE LEGS OF A BEARDED MAN:
Αστυδαμα[ς]. TO RIGHT OF A WOMAN: Τι[μοδ]ικε{1}. TO RIGHT OF A MAN:
(Φ)αι(ν)ιπ[π]ος{1}. Θε[σευς]{2}. [τ]α̣υρος, RETR.{3}. TO RIGHT OF THE BACK OF A
WOMAN HOLDING A WREATH: Αριαννε. TO RIGHT OF A MAN'S BELLY: Μινος. TO LEFT OF A
SEATED WOMAN'S LEGS: Δε(μ)οδικε. BY THE LOWER BODIES OF TWO HERALDS:
Κ(α)λ[λ]ικρατ[ε]ς{1}. Προκριτος̣{4}. TO LEFT OF THE RIGHT COCK'S NECK: Χαιτο[ς],
RETR. IN THE SAME POSITION FOR THE HEN: Σφεκις, RETR. [[ADDENDA:]] C] Χαιτος̣,
RETR. Λ̣ευ̣κο̣ς̣{3}. Αστυδαμα[ς]. Τι[μοδ]ικε. Φαινιπ[π]ος. Θε[σευς]{2}.
[Μινοτα]υρος, RETR. Αριαννε{4}. Μινος. Δεμοδικε. Κα̣λ[λ]ικρατες. Προκριτος.
Χαιτος̣, RETR. Σφεκις.(3)
CAVI Footnotes: {1} THESE INSCRIPTIONS WERE CORRECTED BY BEAZLEY FROM BRANTS' READINGS; HE
PREFERS Τι[μοδ]ικε TO Τι[μον]ικε; SO ALSO CVA. {2} SO BRANTS, TEXT. OR
[Α]θε[ναια], CVA. {3} THERE IS ROOM FOR ONLY ONE LETTER BEFORE THE ALPHA. BUT
NOTE THAT VOS IN CVA READS: [Μινοτα]υρος, RETR. {4} THE SIGMA IS BELOW THE
OMICRON. [[ADDENDA:]] E] {1} SO K.; WHERE DOES BOTHMER ATTRIBUTE? {2} "RATHER
Θε[σευς] THAN [Α]θε[ναια], BECAUSE THESEUS FIGHTS THE MINOTAUR AND THE MONSTER
IS NAMED AS WELL." {3} COCKS AND HEN. LEUKOS ALSO ON LIVERPOOL 56.19.19. {4} SEE
KRETSCHMER (1894), 171.
CAVI Comments: = XIV 3. BRANTS COMPARES LOUVRE E 850; BEAZLEY, VATICAN 308 (ABV 98/39).
THERE ARE SMALL DIFERENCES IN CVA FROM THE READINGS LISTED HERE; THEY HAVE NOT
ALL BEEN REGISTERED. CVA'S FACSS. ARE VERY POOR.
CAVI Number: 4196
AVI Bibliography: JANSSEN (1842), 52-53, PL. 8,1 (INSCRIPTIONS). — JANSSEN (1843–8), II 1625,
P. 156. — A.E.J. HOLWERDA (1890), 244/46. — KRETSCHMER (1894), 171/148 AND 209
N. 2. — HOLWERDA (1905), XIV 3, PP. 62-63. — BRANTS (1930), 17, PL. 20. —
BOTHMER (1944), 162 N. 13. — ABV (1956), 104/126. — BROMMER (1960), 173/29. —
BOTHMER (1969), 26. — M. JONGKEES-VOS, CVA LEIDEN 1, NETHERLANDS 3 (1971), P. 4
(FACS.) AND PL. 4. — ADD.[2] (1989), 28. — WACHTER (1991), 95 (COMPARISON WITH
FRANçOIS VASE). — KLUIVER (1995), 60/36 AND 66/36 (INSCRIPTIONS DONE BY C.J.
RUIJGH) (NOT ILL.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
