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)
