Attributed To: CASTELLANI P by BOTHMER TYRRHENIAN GROUP by THIERSCH
Decoration: A1: AMPHIARAOS DEPARTING, WOMEN, ONE WITH CHILD, SOME MOURNING, OLD MEN, ONE SQUATTING, MAN IN CHARIOT, WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD, DEVICE, GOAT AND LION HEADS A2: AMAZONOMACHY, HERAKLES AND AMAZONS, WARRIORS, SOME FALLEN, GATES (CITY WALL ?) AB3-4: ANIMAL FRIEZES, PANTHERS, RAMS, DEER, BOAR B1: CHARIOT RACE (FUNERARY GAMES ?), CHARIOTS, MAN AND HORSE FALLEN, COLUMN, ONLOOKERS ON TOMB, TRIPOD B2: EROTIC, SATYRS AND MAENADS, SATYR AND MULE, SOME DANCING, DIONYSOS IN CHITONISKOS AND NEBRIS, DANCING Neck A: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE FALLEN, BETWEEN HORSEMEN, BIRD Neck B: WARRIORS ARMING, WOMEN, ONE WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELD
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, lost: F1711
Previous Collections:
Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 3773
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 99 (1995) 622, FIG.3 (NB, B1) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 95.8, 683 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 34, 36 Blok, J.H., The Early Amazons, Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth (Leiden, 1995): PLS.8A-B (A2-4) Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.267 (DRAWING) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 25 Classical Antiquity: 25 (2006) FIG.3 AT 325 (B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIKENSAMMLUNG 14, 120-121, BEILAGE 21.1, PL.() View Whole CVA Plates De Puma, R.D. and Penny Small, J. (eds.), Murlo and the Etruscans, Art and Society in Ancient Etruria (Madison, 1994): 108, FIG.11.12 (A1) Esposito, A.M. and Tommaso, G. (eds.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Vasi Attici (Firenze, 1993): 26, FIG.21 (COLOUR OF PART OF A) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 425426, FIGS.266A-B (DRAWINGS OF AB1) Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 74, FIG.33 (PARTS OF A2) Godde, S. and Heinze, T. (eds.), Skenika, Beiträge zum antiken Theater und seiner Rezeption, Festschrift Horst-Dieter Blume (Darmstadt, 2000): PL.2.4 (PART OF B1) Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: (1991) 34, FIG.3 (PART OF A1) Jovino, M.B., and Chiesa, F. (eds.), L'ara della regina di Tarquinia, aree sacre, santuari mediterranei, Giornata di studio, Milano, 13 giugno 2007 (Milan, 2009): 169, FIG.20 (PART OF NB, B1) Jurriaans-Helle, G., Composition in Athenian Black-Figure Vase-Painting, The Chariot in Profile Type Scene. Babesch Supplementa 41 (Leuven, Paris, and Bristol, 2021): 49, 215, FIG.13 (A1) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 825, 845, NOS.3, 317 (PARTS OF A1) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.212, PELIOU ATHLA 11 (PART OF B) Moraw, S. and Nölle, E. (eds.), Die Geburt des Theaters in der griechischen Antike (Mainz, 2002): 35, FIG.28 (COLOUR OF PART OF B1) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 341, FIG.234 (PARTS OF A2 AND B2) Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias und seine Welt, Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 1.–2. März 2019, Züricher Archäologische Forschungen 8 (Zurich, 2022): PL.23B (COLOUR OF A1) Schefold, K., Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der Früh- und Hocharchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1993): 240-241, FIG.257A-B (PARTS) Schmidt, S. and Tsingarida, A. (eds.), Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Belgique, Supplément 1. The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum 1922-2022, A Century of Exploring Greek Vases: Typologies, Readings and Debates (Contents), CVA Belgique (Brussels, 2024): 20, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF A, B AND PARTS OF A AND B) Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 37, FIGS.21-22 (PARTS OF A AND B) Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung, Dokumentation der Verluste, V.1, Skulpturen, Vasen, Elfenbein und Knochen, Goldschmuck, Gemmen und Kameen (Berlin, 2005): 115, F 177 (NOT ILLUSTRATED)
CAVI Lemma: FRAGMENTARY BF TYRRHENIAN NECK AMPHORA. FROM TARQUINIA. CASTELLANI PAINTER
(BOTHMER). THIRD QUARTER SIXTH. EARLY PERIOD (KLUIVER).
CAVI Subject: BODY: UPPER ZONES: A: AMPHIARAOS LEAVING HOME. B: CHARIOT RACE{1}. LOWER
ZONES: A: HERACLES AND AMAZONS. B: DIONYSUS WITH SATYRS AND MAENADS. NECK: A:
FIGHT. B: ARMING: THE RIGHT HALF IS CLEAR: A NUDE AND BEARDED MAN IS CONFRONTED
BY THREE WOMEN, TWO OF WHOM CARRY SHIELDS, THE THIRD A SWORD(?).
CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: NECK: B: AT THE EXTREME LOWER RIGHT, FACING THE MARGIN:
(α)(ε)φχι{2}. SHOULDER: A: TO RIGHT OF THE HEAD OF THE CHARIOTEER OF THE SECOND
CHARIOT: γ(τ)ο(ε){3}. BETWEEN THE WHEEL AND THE REAR OF THE HORSES OF THE FRONT
CHARIOT: οτοακγ{4}. BETWEEN THE HORSES' LEGS: γτο(ε){5}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} SHAPIRO THINKS THE SUBJECT IS THE FUNERAL GAMES FOR PATROCLUS: THREE
CHARIOTS ARE RACING; THE LAST IS CRASHING TO THE GROUND; AT RIGHT, A GOAL POST
WITH A CAULDRON ON TOP; BLEACHERS WITH SIX UNLOOKERS; A TRIPOD. {2} THE FIRST
LETTER IS A BLOB; THE SECOND IS UNCERTAIN BUT PERHAPS AN EPSILON, THOUGH NOT
LYING ON ITS SIDE AS THE OTHERS; THE THIRD LETTER IS A PHI OR PERHAPS THETA. {3}
THE TAU IS NOT CLEAR; THE EPSILON IS HORIZONTAL WITH SHORT VERTICAL STROKES;
THIS COULD ALSO BE READ RETR. {5} EPSILON AS THE LAST. THE INSCRIPTION IS
IDENTICAL WITH THE FIRST IN THIS SCENE.
CAVI Comments: + BERLIN 1711. VERY PECULIAR LETTER FORMS, CHARACTERISTIC OF THE CASTELLANI
PAINTER.
CAVI Number: 3540
AVI Bibliography: THIERSCH (1899), PLS. 3-4 (DRS), AND P. 64. — FR (1904–32), III, 5, FIGS. 2-3
(AFTER THIERSCH, PL. 4). — ABV (1956), 95/8, 683. — PARA. (1971), 36. — ADD.[2]
(1989), 25. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 280. — CARPENTER (1991), FIG. 267. —
ESPOSITO–DE TOMMASO (1993), PL. 21. — R. BLATTER, LIMC VII (1994), PELIOU ATHLA.
— SHAPIRO (1994), 35 AND 37, FIGS. 21-22 (A, B, NECK AND SHOULDER). — MCGOWAN
(1995), 622, FIG. 2. — KLUIVER (1996), 9/180 AND 13 (INSCRR. MENTIONED), FIGS.
17-18 (17 SHOWS 2 NONSENSE INSCRR., FAINTLY).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
