Decoration: Body: INTRODUCTION OF HERAKLES ON OLYMPOS, POSEIDON, HERMES, ATHENA, DEVICE, OWL
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F30
Previous Collections:
Paris, Musée du Louvre: MNB2056
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 152.29, 687 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 63 Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 140-142, NO.27 (BD, PARTS, FOOT PROFILE) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 44 Denoyelle, M., Chefs-d Oeuvre de la Ceramique Grecque dans les collections du Louvre (Paris, 1994): 78-79, NO.34 (COLOUR OF PART, PART) Fournier-Christol, C., Catalogue des olpes attiques du Louvre de 550 a 480 environ (Paris, 1990): PLS.2, 6, NO.2 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.246, HERMES 553 Martens, D., Une esthetique de la transgression, le vase grec de la fin de l'epoque geometrique au debut de l'epoque classique (Brussels, 1992): 320, FIGS.145A-C Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 22, FIG.11 (PROFILE OF FOOT) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.50D-E
CAVI Inscriptions: ON EITHER SIDE OF ATHENA'S SPEAR, VERTICALLY DOWN IN TWO LINES, THE SECOND
`ABOVE' THE FIRST: Αμασις | μεποιεσ̣[ε]ν. STOICH. IS NOT INTENDED. BOTH LINES
START AT THE SAME POINT.
CAVI Comments: POSEIDON RATHER THAN ZEUS RECEIVES HERACLES IN OLYMPUS (SHAPIRO). THIS IS A
DESIGN OF THE SIGNATURE COMMON IN THE MIDDLE PERIOD.
