Attributed To:Near HECTOR P by BEAZLEY PELEUS P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: MAN (NAMED) IN CHLAMYS AND PETASOS, WOMAN (NAMED) IN PILOS AND BRASSIERE WRESTLING WITH YOUTH (ATALANTE AND PELEUS), MAN (BOXING, NAMED, AMYKOS) POST, FIGURE WITH HELMET B: MOUND, ATHLETE (HERAKLES ?) WITH FILLETS, TRIPOD, JUDGES IN CHLAMYDES, SOME SEATED, ONE WITH STAFF, ONE NAMED, IDAS) ATHLETE (YOUTH, NAMED, POLYDEUKES)
Last Recorded Collection: Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina: 2865
Previous Collections:
Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina: T404
Publication Record: Alfieri, N. and Arias, P.E., Spina, Die neuentdeckte Etruskerstadt und die griechischen Vasen ihrer Gräber (Munich, 1958): PLS.96-97 (PARTS) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1039.9 , 1679 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 443 Berti, F. and Guzzo, P.G. (eds.), Spina, Storia di una citta tra Greci ed Etruschi (Ferrara, 1993): 113, FIG.95 (COLOUR OF PART) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.143 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 156 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 319 Classical Antiquity: 15 (1996) FIG.24 AT P.77 (A) Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica: SUPP. II.1, 547, FIG.612 (PART OF B) Kephalidou, E., Nikitis, Eikonographiki meleti tou archaiou ellinikou athlitismou (Thessaloniki, 1996): PL.38 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.109, HERAKLES 2803 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.165, LYNKEUS I ET IDAS 2 (B) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 114, PL.93 Nikephoros: 3 (1990) 326, FIG.18 Poliakoff, M. B., Combat Sports in the Ancient World, Competition, Violence and Culture (Yale, 1987): 71, FIG.70 (PART) Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 41, FIG.24 (B)
CAVI Collection: Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina 2865.
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF volute krater. From Spina. Peleus Painter. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Funeral Games for Pelias: A: before the contests: Atalanta and Peleus with
other figures (see inscriptions). B: after the contests: a bearded victor
(Heracles?); Akastos seated as judge; Polydeukes victor; Pheres seated (fellow
judge); Idas.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Peleus misnamed. {2} boxer; misnamed. {3} being crowned. {4} standing;
the complement [Ιδ]ας is Beazley's; a former suggestion was [Πελι]ας.
CAVI Comments: = T 404. - On A the artist has conflated the fight at the games with the
fight between Polydeukes and Amykos (Beazley). For inscriptions and subject see
AJA 64. - Matheson 229f. also discusses the subject which has been disputed:
reversing A and B, she suggests [Πηλι]ας rather than [Ιδ]ας for the standing
figure (if the inscription refers to him): the shade of the dead man attending.
For B, Matheson follows Korshak who interprets the scene as the foot race
between Hippomenes and Atalanta; Hippomenes is tying his sandal rather than
wrestling. But there are difficulties (Amykos does not fit and Kleomolpos is an
unknown name); hence the interpretation is uncertain.
CAVI Number: 3472
AVI Bibliography: Aurigemma (1935), 204, pl. 108. — ARV[1] (1942), 696/25. — Beazley (1950),
310-11 (in general on the games). — Alfieri–Arias (1960), pls. 96-97. — Beazley
(1960), 221/III, pls. 53,1,3 and 54,1-7 (inscriptions) (bibl. n. 12). — ARV[2]
(1963), 1039/9, 1679. — Para. (1971), 443. — Korshak Schwartz (1973), 84-91. —
LIMC i (1981), pl. 597, Amykos 14; pl. 697 Atalanta 73. — Roller (1981), 112. —
Add.[2] (1989), 319. — Boardman (1989), 143. — LIMC v (1990), pl. 109, Heracles
2803; 465 Hippomenes 1. — Matheson (1995), 110, *229-30 and nn. 71-74, 438/PE12,
pl. 93 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
