Decoration: A: GIGANTOMACHY, POSEIDON WITH ROCK, GIANT FALLING WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICE, PATTERN, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS B: WOMAN (APHRODITE OR LETO OR NYX ?) HOLDING CHILDREN (INFANT APOLLO AND ARTEMIS OR HYPNOS AND THANATOS ?) BETWEEN COLUMNS SURMOUNTED BY OWLS
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: F226
Previous Collections:
Paris, Musée du Louvre: 226
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 308.66 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 82 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, LOUVRE 4, III.He.24, PL.(208) 42.1-4 View Whole CVA Plates Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIG.60C (B) Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): II, PL.2 (COLOUR DRAWING OF B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.130, LETO 10 (B) Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 114, FIG.2 (B) del Corral Corredoira, P.D., Y Dioniso desposó a la rubia Ariadna, estudio iconográfico de la cerámica ática (575-300 a.C.) (Oxford, 2007): 141, FIG.70 (B)
CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. FROM VULCI. SWING PAINTER. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. PHASE I
(BöHR).
CAVI Subject: A: POSEIDON AND A GIANT. B: APHRODITE(?) HOLDING TWO CHILDREN BETWEEN TWO
COLUMNS, EACH OF WHICH IS SURMOUNTED BY AN OWL{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: NONSENSE: FIVE STRAIGHT LINES OF DOTS: TO LEFT OF POSEIDON'S MID-SECTION:
8 DOTS. TO LEFT OF HIS UPPER RIGHT ARM: 9 DOTS. BETWEEN HIS LEGS: 5 DOTS. TO
RIGHT OF THE ROCK CARRIED BY POSEIDON ON HIS SHOULDER: 7 DOTS. TO RIGHT OF THE
GIANT'S RIGHT ARM: 7 DOTS.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO ABV; CVA: LATONA WITH APOLLO AND ARTEMIS.
CAVI Comments: THE DOTS ARE THICKER AND IN STRAIGHTER LINES COMPARED TO CINCINNATI 1959.1
AND BALTIMORE, WALTERS 48.2127. [THIS DOES NOT SEEM TO BE A FUNCTION OF
CHRONOLOGY IF BöHR'S PHASES ARE RIGHT.] ON P. 62 N. 82, BöHR SAYS THAT DOTS ARE
THE ONLY FORM OF INSCRIPTION BY THE SWING PAINTER (SHE DOES NOT ATTRIBUTE LONDON
B 144 TO HIM); SHE CITES SEVEN VASES.
CAVI Number: 6350
AVI Bibliography: E. POTTIER, CVA LOUVRE 4, FRANCE 5 (1926), III H E, 42,1-4. — ABV (1956),
308/66. — BöHR (1982), 32, 94/99, PL. 101,A-B (A, B) (BIBL.). — ADD.[2] (1989),
82.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
