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)
