Attributed To: AMPHITRITE P by BEAZLEY HIERON by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: GIGANTOMACHY, POSEIDON WITH ROCK (NISYROS) AND TRIDENT ATTACKING FALLING GIANT B: GIGANTOMACHY, DIONYSOS IN CHITONISKOS WITH SNAKE AND THYRSOS ATTACKING FALLING GIANT
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 98.932
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 482.34, 832.36 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 319.4 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 422 Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): II, 51 Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 313, FIG.213 (B) Padgett, J.M. (ed.), The Berlin Painter and His World, Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C., Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series (New Haven and London, 2017): 170, FIG.16 (B) Pevnick, S. (ed.), Poseidon and the Sea. Myth, Cult, and Daily Life (Tampa, 2014): 131, NO.28 (COLOUR OF A) Pollak, L., Zwei Vasen aus der Werkstatt Hierons (Leipzig, 1900): 28, PLS.4-5 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: RF kantharos. From Greece. Amphitrite Painter{1}. Hieron, potter. Second
quarter fifth. Ca. 470. 470-460 (CB).
CAVI Subject: Gigantomachy. A: Poseidon and a giant. B: Dionysus and a giant.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the upper surface of the foot, Dip. in red: Ιερον Με̣δ̣οντος εποιε̣.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} formerly Amymone Painter.
CAVI Comments: My reading. Beazley says that there is no reason, so far as he can see, to
doubt the signature; see ARV[2] and CB. For the omission of heta see AttScr. For
the position of the signature see the similar position of the Gr. signature of
Pamphaios on the upper surface of a cup foot, Orvieto, Faina 114, AhΑ 88 (1984)
348/10. Μεδων: PA 9708-13. D. Williams in CVA, Great Britain 17: the father's
name in the signature, if it is genuine, could mean that Hieron was a citizen;
W.J. Young reported to Beazley in CB in favor of thegenuineness of the sig.
Beazley in CB read: Ἱέρο̅ν Με̅́δοντος ἐποί[e̅]. [It should be Μέδοντος: is the
long e my error or CB's? See for the form, LGPN ii.] - The Amphitrite Painter is
not close to Makron: impossible to prove definitely whether the signature is
genuine or false (Robertson). Attic alphabet with four-stroke sigma?
CAVI Number: 2675
AVI Bibliography: Pollak (1900), pls. 4-5 and p. 28. — CB (1931–63), iii, 52/152, pl. 85,1-2. —
ARV[2] (1963), 832/36 (bibl.), 482/34. — Para. (1971), 422. — Bothmer (1982),
45. — AttScr (1990), no. 974. — Robertson (1992), 101; cf. also 152-53
(signature). — Kunisch (1997), 7 and n. 28 (mention).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
