Decoration: A: ANODOS, BIRTH OF PANDORA, ZEUS WITH SCEPTRE, HERMES, EPIMETHEUS WITH HAMMER, EROS, ALL NAMED B: YOUTH IN PETASOS AND CHLAMYS WITH SPEARS (THESEUS ?) PURSUING WOMAN, WOMAN FLEEING
Last Recorded Collection: Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: V525
Previous Collections:
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum: G275
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 99 (1995) 177, FIG.7 (A) Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): PL.17A (A) BEAZLEY NOTEBOOK: 21, 25.2-26 BEAZLEY NOTEBOOK: 22, 42-44 BEAZLEY NOTEBOOK: 26, 34.1 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1562.4 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 696.22 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 506 Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987): 56, FIG.2 (B) Berard, D., Anodoi (Rome, 1974): PL.19, FIG.71 (A) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.170 (A) Brule, P., Women of Ancient Greece (Edinburgh, 2003): 36 (A) Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving: 64 (1989), 10, FIG.6 (DRAWING OF A) Cain, H-U., Gabelmann, H., and Salzmann, D. (eds.), Festschrift für Nikolaus Himmelmann (Bonn, 1989): PL.35.3 (A) Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.119 (A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: OXFORD, ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM 1, 18, PLS.(113,124) 21.1-2, 32.6 View Whole CVA Plates Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica: 5, 931, FIG.1141 (PART OF A) Hurwit, J.M., The Athenian Acropolis, History, Mythology, and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present (Cambridge, 1998): 239, FIG.202 (A) 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): 227, FIG.178 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.100, PANDORA 4 (A) Morais, R., Leao, D., and Rodriguez Perez, D. (eds.), Greek Art in Motion, Studies in Honour of Sir John Boardman on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday (Oxford, 2019): 6, FIG.5 (DRAWING OF A) Morris, S.P., Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art (Princeton, 1992): FIG.50 (PART OF A) Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 285, NO.81 (COLOUR OF A, B, PART OF A) Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 69, FIG.45 (A) Simon, E., Ausgewählte Schriften, I, Griechische Kunst (Mainz, 1998): 133, FIG.11.10 (A) Sourvinou-Inwood, C., "Reading" Greek Culture, Texts and Images, Rituals and Myths (Oxford, 1991): FIG.2 (B) Vickers, M., Ancient Greek Pottery (Oxford, 1999): 47, NO.35 (COLOUR OF A) Villanueva Puig, M-C. et al., Dossier, Des vases pour les Atheniens, VIe-IVe siecle avant notre ere. Metis 12 (2014): 288, FIG.4 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF VOLUTE KRATER. UNATTRIBUTED{1}. CA. 450.
CAVI Subject: A: PANDORA APPEARS TO EPIMETHEUS (WITH A MALLET; EROS ABOVE) BY RISING FROM
THE GROUND. B: A YOUTH WITH SPEARS(2) PURSUING A WOMAN IN THE PRESENCE OF
ANOTHER WOMAN.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO RIGHT OF ZEUS' FACE: Ζευς. TO RIGHT OF HERMES' HEAD: Hερμες. ABOVE
EPIMETHEUS' HEAD: Επιμεθευς. ABOVE PANDORA'S HEAD: Πανδορα. B: BETWEEN THE YOUTH
AND THE PURSUED WOMAN: Αλκιμαχος AND BELOW: καλος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO ARV[2]; ARV[1] 696/22 HAD ATTRIBUTED THE VASE TO THE GROUP OF
POLYGNOTOS, BUT WITH THE PROVISO THAT IT STOOD RATHER APART. {2} THESEUS?,
ARV[2].
CAVI Comments: = G 275. C. ROBERT INTERPRETED PANDORA AS THE EARTH GODDESS, COMPARING LONDON
D 4, Q.V.; BéRARD ASSUMES AN ERROR BY THE VASE PAINTER WHO CONFUSED GE AND
PANDORA; SO ALSO LENDLE, BUT SIMON IN LIMC DISAGREES: SHE FOLLOWS BUSCHOR AND
SUTTON IN BELIEVING THAT THIS IS THE ARTIFICIALLY CREATED PANDORA [BUT WHY IS
SHE RISING FROM THE GROUND?]. RELATED BY HER TO SOPHOCLES' SATYR PLAY PANDORA OR
SPHYROKOPOI. ATTIC ALPHABET; ALPHA VARIABLE; THETA WITH A VERTICAL LINE IN THE
CIRCLE; TAILED RHO; V-SHAPED UPSILON WITH CURVED STROKES.
CAVI Number: 5915
AVI Bibliography: GARDNER (1901), FIG. ON P. 3 AND PL. 1. — C. ROBERT (1914), 17-38. — J.D.
BEAZLEY, CVA OXFORD 1, GREAT BRITAIN 3 (1927), PL. 21,1-2 AND 32,6. — BUSCHOR
(1937), 22-23. — LENDLE (1957), 66-69. — ARV[2] (1963), 1562/4. — PARA. (1971),
506. — TRENDALL–WEBSTER (1971), 35, 39, NO. II.8. — BéRARD (1974), 164, PL.
19/71. — D.F. SUTTON (1975), 350-55. — VICKERS (1978), FIG. 48 (A). — E. SIMON,
LIMC I (1981), 790-92, ANESIDORA. — SIMON (1982), 145 AND N. 149, PL. 39,A (A).
— ADD.[2] (1989), 388. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 1004.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
