6547, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, Unknown, private, Durand Collection, 1836,0224.137

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Vase Number: 6547
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: AMPHORA, BELLY, TYPE B
Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
Date: -525 to -475
Decoration: A: AINEIAS CARRYING ANCHISES BETWEEN ARCHER AND WOMAN (APHRODITE ?)
B: WOMAN BETWEEN WARRIORS (AKAMAS AND DEMOPHON LEADING AITHRA ?)
Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: B173
Previous Collections:
- Unknown, private, Durand Collection
- London, British Museum: 1836,0224.137 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 3, III.He.9, PL.(165) 45.1A-B View Whole CVA Plates
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.332, AITHRA I 61 (A)
PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 2 (A, B)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4420
AVI Record Number: 4248
LIMC ID: 15531
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-747fc0ee677c0-a
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1836-0224-137
CAVI Collection: London B 173.
CAVI Lemma: BF amphora. From Vulci. Unattributed. Late sixth. Ca. 530 (Shapiro).
CAVI Subject: A: Departure of Aeneas from Troy. B: Akamas and Demophon conducting Aithra.
CAVI Inscriptions: On Demophon's shield, which is seen from the side, large white letters on BG ground: ΑΘΕ.
CAVI Comments: For Αθε(ναιοι). Old-fashioned letters. Cartwheel theta. Shapiro: this is the earliest depiction of the Aithra episode which is from the Iliupersis.
CAVI Number: 4248
AVI Bibliography: H.B. Walters, CVA London 3, Great Britain 4 (1927), III H e, pl. 45,1a-b (bibl.). — LIMC i (1981), Aithra 61. — Shapiro (1989), 148 n. 49. — AttScr (1990), no. 944.
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/413393
Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975

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