7139, ATHENIAN, San Antonio (TX), Art Museum, London, market, Sotheby's, 86.134.60
- Vase Number: 7139
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: RED-FIGURE
- Shape Name: CUP B
- Date: -525 to -475
- Attributed To: EUCHARIDES P by GUY
- Decoration: A,B: UNDECORATED
I: IRIS, CARRYING WRITING TABLET, ALTAR - Current Collection: San Antonio (TX), Art Museum: 86.134.60
- Previous Collections:
- London, market, Sotheby's
- Publication Record: Shapiro, H.A. et al. (eds.), Greek Vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, 1995): 146, NO.72 (I, A)
Sotheby, sale catalogue: 13-14.7.1981, 128, NO.275 (I) - AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7707
- AVI Record Number: 7446
- CAVI Collection: San Antonio, TX, Museum of Art 86.134.60.
- CAVI Lemma: RF cup. Eucharides Painter (Guy). First quarter fifth. Ca. 490-480 (Shapiro).
Late (Langridge).
- CAVI Subject: Int.: Iris(1) to right, but looking back, before a flaming altar, holds a
caduceus in her left hand and a satchel (tablets bound up with a handle; no
stylus) in the right. Ext.: plain.
- CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: to left of the lower part of the figure, starting below the right wing,
vertically down and facing the figure: κ(α)λο(ς), retr.{2}.
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} so Shapiro after A. Kossatz-Deissmann in LIMC v, 741ff.; Langridge says
Iris or Nike. {2} the alpha lacks the cross stroke; the final sigma is unclear
in the ph.
- CAVI Comments: Ex collection G.M. Denman, Jr. For other representations of Iris with tablets
Shapiro refers to nos. 16, 29, 34, and 35 in LIMC. Here the tablets replace a
more appropriate phiale.
- CAVI Number: 7446
- AVI Bibliography: Sotheby (1981b), lot 275. — LIMC v (1990), 745, Iris 22, pl. 486. — Langridge
(1993), 405/E 170 (not ill.) (no bibl.). — H. Alan Shapiro in
Shapiro–Picón–Scott III (1995), 146/72 (Int., side).
- 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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