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310453, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 01.8026

  • Vase Number: 310453
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Provenance: ITALY, ORVIETO
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Inscriptions: AMASIS
    Signature: AMASIS MEPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: AMASIS P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: ATHENA AND POSEIDON, DEVICE, GORGONEION
    B: WARRIORS SETTING OUT, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, (ONE WITH PANTHER SKIN ?), DEVICE, RAMS
    Under handle: DIONYSOS WITH GRAPEVINE
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 01.8026
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 152.26, 687
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 63
    Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 130-133, NO.24 (A, B, UH, PROFILE)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 44
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 1, 19-21, FIG.25, PLS.(648,650) 26.1-2, 28.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates
    De la Geniere, J. (ed.), Cahiers Du Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, France No 1. Les clients de la céramique grecque, Actes du Colloque de l'Académie Des Inscriptions Et Belles-Lettres. Paris, 30-31 janvier 2004 (Paris, 2006): 251, PL.1.2 (PART OF B)
    Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 136, FIG.109 (A, B, UH)
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.9.36 (B)
    Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIG.72 (UH)
    Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 31, FIGS.37-38 (B, PROFILE)
    Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.49D (A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2850
  • AVI Record Number: 2703
  • LIMC ID: 29341
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-754387d7d17b6-1
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 01.8026.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. From Orvieto. Amasis Painter. 525-515{1}.
  • CAVI Subject: A, fragmentary: Poseidon(?) and Athena. B: two warriors. Under each handle: Dionysus, looking back.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Between the figures: A: vertically, in two lines: [Αμ]α̣σις | [μ]εποιεσεν. B: vertically in one wavy line: Αμασις μεποιεσεν.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Dev. and Bothmer. Shapiro considers the figure clearly Poseidon. For B, see bibl. in Shapiro 106 n. 55.
  • CAVI Comments: Shapiro considers the figure to be clearly Poseidon. For B, see bibl. in Shapiro 106 n. 55. For the potter Amasis, see Mommsen 17-34.
  • CAVI Number: 2703
  • AVI Bibliography: Dev.[1] (1951), 58. — ABV (1956), 152/26, 687. — Karouzou (1956), pls. 35,3 and 36-37. — Para. (1971), 63. — H. Hoffmann et al., CVA Boston 1, USA 14 (1973), pls. 26, 28,1-2. — Bothmer (1985), 130/24 and photos. — Add.[2] (1989), 44. — Shapiro (1989), 106, pl. 49,d (A). — AttScr (1990), no. 159, fig. 36 (B). — H. Mommsen (1997), 29, fig. 37 (A).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/639959859
  • Coordinates: 42.718642,12.114315
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.7225286,12.1198882
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