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213771, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1921,0710.2

  • Vase Number: 213771
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: HYDRIA
  • Date: -475 TO -425
  • Attributed To: POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Shoulder: DOMESTIC, COLUMN, WOMEN, SOME SEATED ON CHAIRS PLAYING LYRES, ONE WITH PIPESCASE, ONE WITH SCROLL, ONE WITH BOX AND LYRE, STOOLS, BOX, STORK, EROS WITH WREATH, TENDRIL, WRITING TABLETS
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1921.7-10.2
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Arethusa: 30 (1997) 1, 60-61, FIGS.11A-B (PARTS OF S)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1060.138
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 445
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 158
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 323
    Clark, A.J. and Gaunt, J. (eds.), Essays in Honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, Allard Pierson Series 14 (Amsterdam, 2002): PL.7A (PART OF SH)
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 6, III.I.C.3, PL.(358) 83.1A-D View Whole CVA Plates
    Evans Grubbs, J., and Parkin, T. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World (Oxford, 2013): 403, FIG.20.3 (PART)
    Maas, M. and Snyder, J.M, Stringed Instruments of Ancient Greece (New Haven, 1989): 134, FIG.11 (PART)
    Mouseion: 49 (2005) 13, PL.7 (PART OF S)
    Revue Archéologique: 1996, 229, FIG.1 (UF)
    Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D., A History of Greek Art (Oxford, 2015): 274, FIG.11.5 (COLOUR OF PART OF SH)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4910
  • AVI Record Number: 4735
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1921-0710-2
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON 1921.7-10.2.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF HYDRIA (KALPIS). GROUP OF POLYGNOTOS. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH. MID-FIFTH (WILLIAMS).
  • CAVI Subject: CONCERT OF TWO SEATED WOMEN WITH LYRES, WITH FIVE OTHER WOMEN; A COLUMN; A CHEST; AT LEFT A FLYING EROS WITH A WREATH; TABLETS HUNG UP. THE WOMAN AT RIGHT HOLDS A (PARTIALLY PRESERVED) BOOK ROLL, NOT INSCRIBED.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: AV [[LIG.]] OR AN [[LIG.]], ΠΟΙ (ATTIC PI), VΔΡΙ{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO JOHNSTON IN THE THREE PLACES WHERE HE LISTS THIS VASE. CVA HAS: ΥΔΙΔΡΑΧΠΟΙΑ/, AND EXPLAINS: 1 HYDRIA FOR 5 DR. 1 OBOL, WHICH IS CERTAINLY WRONG. THE REFERENCE IN CVA TO HACKL (1909), 51, 71 DOES NOT YIELD INTELLIGIBLE INFORMATION. - I HAVE A LETTER FROM ... (ILLEGIBLE) OF 9/30/67 REPORTING THAT ANNE BIRCHALL AT THE BM CONSIDERED THE GR. ON LONDON 1921.7-10.2 BEFORE FIRING. BUT JOHNSTON IN JOHNSTON (1979), DOES NOT THINK THAT ANY OF THESE GRR. ARE PRE-FIRING.
  • CAVI Comments: ΠΟΙ IS FOR ποικιλος, `DECORATED,' CF. BASEL, ANTIKENMUSEUM BS 407. - WILLIAMS TRANSLATES: "HYDRIA TWO DRACHMAI PAINTED," AND TRANSCRIBES IN ROMAN: HY 2 DRACH POI. THE PHOTO SEEMS TO SHOW, CURVED AROUND THE CENTER, FACING OUT: υδ[] | δραχ[] ποι[] (WITHOUT WORD SEPARATION), AND THE LIGATURE OF ALPHA AND UPSILON: AV [[LIG.]]. I THINK W. READS A SECOND VERTICAL STROKE WHICH IS VERY FAINT IN THE PHOTO.
  • CAVI Number: 4735
  • AVI Bibliography: H.B. WALTERS, CVA LONDON 6, GREAT BRITAIN 8 (1931), III I C, PL. 83,1A-D. — ARV[2] (1963), 1060/138. — IMMERWAHR (1964), 24/13, FIGS. 7-10. — PARA. (1971), 445. — JOHNSTON (1979), 90/2B 29, 156/8F 8, 165/21F 7. — ADD.[2] (1989), 323. — MATHESON (1995), 478/PGU 162 (NOT ILL.; INSCRIPTIONS INCORRECT, AFTER CVA). — D. WILLIAMS (1996), 228, FIG. 1 (DETAIL OF FOOT WITH GR.).
  • 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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