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213437, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, G375

  • Vase Number: 213437
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: PELIKE
  • Date: -475 to -425
  • Inscriptions: Named: [A]ELOSA, MELOSA, TITYAS, APOLLON
  • Attributed To: POLYGNOTOS by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: FIGHT, APOLLO AND TITYOS (BOTH NAMED) FALLING ON ROCK, GODDESS (NAMED)
    B: GODDESSES, ONE WITH PHIALE, APOLLO
  • Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: G375
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1032.54
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 394.4
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 317
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, MUSEE DU LOUVRE 8, III.I.D.29, PL.(522) 42.1-4.6.8 View Whole CVA Plates
    Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 243, FIG.199 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.24, TITYOS 22 (A)
    Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 10, PL.1A-B (A)
    Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): 1856, PL.10.2
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6771
  • AVI Record Number: 6535
  • LIMC ID: 558
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73ab7a797d5c0-9
  • CAVI Collection: Paris, Louvre G 375.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. Polygnotos. Third quarter fifth. Among earliest (Matheson).
  • CAVI Subject: A: Tityos and Apollo; at left, Leto. B: Apollo with his laurel tree, between Artemis and another goddess (Matheson).
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: Μ̣ε̣λοσα{1}. Above Tityos' head: (Τ)ιτυας{2}. Above Apollo's head: Απολλον.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} CVA, printed letters, the first two incomplete. {2} The last four letters are clear in the photo, the first is printed as an Ionic gamma.
  • CAVI Comments: Done from CVA. The vase shows the influence of the Niobid Painter. M. Milne, AJA 49 (1945) 531, discusses the name Μελουσα, with bibliography (Gr. on New York 44.11.1, q.v., where Melousa won the carding contest). - Is this a kale-name without the adjective?
  • CAVI Number: 6535
  • AVI Bibliography: E. Pottier, CVA Louvre 8, France 12 (1933), III I d, pl. 32,1-4,6,8. — ARV[2] (1963), 1032/54. — LIMC ii (1984), 311, Apollon 1073. — Add.[2] (1989), 318. — Matheson (1995), 10, 197, 359/59, pl. 1A-B (A, detail of A).
  • 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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