Attributed To: PROMETHEUS P by BOTHMER TYRRHENIAN GROUP by THIERSCH
Decoration: A1: EROTIC, MEN AND WOMEN, WITH WREATHS, SATYRS, GRAPEVINE B1: EROTIC, MEN AND WOMEN IN CHITONISKOI, YOUTH B2-4: ANIMAL FRIEZES, SPHINXES, SIRENS, RAMS, SWANS, GOATS, DEER AND PANTHERS Frieze below: ANIMAL FRIEZES, SPHINXES, SIRENS, RAMS, SWANS, GOATS, DEER AND PANTHERS
Last Recorded Collection: Copenhagen, National Museum: 57
Previous Collections:
Copenhagen, National Museum: CHRVIII323
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 102.97, 684 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 38 Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 202, FIG.3 (A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: COPENHAGEN, NATIONAL MUSEUM 3, 81-82, PL.(103) 101.1A, 101.1B View Whole CVA Plates Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIGS.88-91 (A1, B1) Korshak, Y., Frontal Faces in Attic Vase Painting of the Archaic Period (Chicago, 1977): 90, FIGS.14-15 (B) Lund, J. and Rasmussen, B.B., Guides to the National Museum, The Collection of Near Eastern and Classical Antiquities (Copenhagen, 1995): 140 (COLOUR OF A)
CAVI Collection: Copenhagen, NM 57. Copenhagen, Chr. VIII 323 (K.).
CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. From Vulci. Prometheus Painter (Bothmer). Second
quarter sixth. 560-550. Middle period (Kluiver).
CAVI Subject: A: youth; two pairs of a man and a woman making love; two satyrs in vines
(repainted). B: love making: four bearded men, two youths, three women.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: the first pair from the left: Γυριτες. hαλιοπε.
CAVI Comments: Kossatz-Deissmann points out that Fränkel wrongly lists the two names as
those of a satyr and a maenad, but they are a human erotic couple. Gyrites and
Haliope only here; see LGPN ii, s.vv. Heliope is also listed in Pape as an
allegorical figure in Empedocles [B 122,1]. The names give the impression of
being non-Attic, but the alphabet is alright for Attic. The lines of the
inscriptions are curved. Open heta. V-shaped upsilon. - Γυριτες: from γυρος, sc.
παλη, a wrestling term, because the man bends his body, cf. Philostratos, De
gymnastica (Jüthner, 1909) [so R. apud K.; LSJ, s.v., cites Philostr. Gymn. 11.]
R. does not explain Haliope. Both names are cited, from this vase only, in LGPN
ii.
CAVI Number: 3224
AVI Bibliography: C. Fränkel (1912), 21-22, 84/L. ? C. Blinkenberg and K. Friis Johansen, CVA
Copenhagen 3, Denmark 3 (1928), pl. 101,1. ? ABV (1956), 102/97, 684. ? Para.
(1971), 38. ? AttScr (1990), no. 168. ? Kossatz-Deissmann (1991), 147. ? Kluiver
(1995), 59/13 and 65/13 (inscriptions done by C.J. Ruijgh) (not ill.).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
