216268, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1867,0508.1132

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Vase Number: 216268
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Sub Technique: RELIEF (LID)
Shape Name: KANTHAROS
Date: -450 to -400
Attributed To: Recalls MARLAY P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: ODYSSEUS WITH SPRIGS, WOMAN (ATTENDANT OF NAUSICAA ?)
B: OEDIPUS WITH CHLAMYS, SPEARS AND PETASOS, AND THE SPHINX
Lid: GORGONEION
Current Collection: London, British Museum: E156
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1867,0508.1132 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: Andreae, B. et al., Ulisse, il mito e la memoria (Rome, 1996): 157, FIG.2.73 (COLOUR OF A)
Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1281
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 358
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 4, III.Ic.6, PL.(227) 34.1A-C View Whole CVA Plates
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.421, NAUSIKAA 4 (A)
Villing, A. et al., Troy: myth and reality (London, 2019): 118, FIG.102 (COLOUR OF A)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4682
AVI Record Number: 4510
LIMC ID: 19495
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74b7c47d0c4c6-6
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1867-0508-1132
CAVI Collection: London E 156.
CAVI Lemma: covered RF kantharos. Recalls Marley Painter (Beazley). Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: On the cover: Gorgoneion in relief. A: Odysseus with one of Nausicaa's companions. B: Oedipus and the sphinx.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: Οδυσ[σ]ευς. καλη.
CAVI Comments: A trick vase. Smith thinks A represents Odysseus and Leucothea, cf. Od. 5.333ff.; formerly interpreted as Odysseus and Nausicaa. Mixed alphabet?
CAVI Number: 4510
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7698. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 144-45 (much old bibl.). — H.B. Walters, CVA London 4, Great Britain 5 (1929), III I c, pl. 34,1a-c. — ARV[2] (1963), 1281. — Add.[2] (1989), 358.
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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