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204827, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1867,0508.1063

  • Vase Number: 204827
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP B
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -500 TO -450
  • Inscriptions: HIERON
    Signature: HIERONEPOIESEN
  • Attributed To: HIERON by SIGNATURE
    MAKRON by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: COURTING, YOUTHS, SOME DRAPED, WITH PURSE AND SPRIG, WOMEN, ONE SEATED WITH WREATH, ONE WITH PIPES
    B: COURTING, DRAPED MEN WITH STAFFS, PURSE AND SPRIG, WOMEN, ONE SEATED PLAYING PIPES
    I: WOMEN, ONE SEATED ON STOOL PLAYING PIPES, ONE DANCING, WITH KROTALA
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E61
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Antike Welt: 1988, SONDERNUMMER, 49, FIG.72 (PART OF I)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 468.145, 482, 1654
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 217.88
    Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): C, PL.5
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 120
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 245
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 9, 49-51, FIGS.03C, 03F, 09D, PLS.(826-827) 50.A-B, 51.A-B
    Harlow, M. (ed.), A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in Antiquity (London, 2017): 52, FIG.3.3 (DRAWING OF I)
    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, 59
    Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 103 (1988) 104, FIGS.9-10 (A, B)
    Kunisch, N., Makron (Mainz, 1997): 29-30, 32, 44-45, 67, FIGS.14-15, 17, 22-23, 30, PL.62.172
    Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 261, FIG.207, 527, PL.46 (A, COLOUR OF B)
    Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 71, FIG.37 (OH)
    Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): FIG.40 (I)
    Oakley, J., The Greek Vase, Art of the Story Teller (London, 2013): 116, FIGS.15-16 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
    Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 101, FIG.96 (I)
    Robson, J., Sex and sexuality in Classical Athens (Edinburgh, 2013): 267, FIG.27 (I)
    Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PL.32.2 (I)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4643
  • AVI Record Number: 4471
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1867-0508-1063
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON E 61.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. FROM VULCI. MAKRON. HIERON, POTTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. HAUPTWERK I (KUNISCH).
  • CAVI Subject: INT.: WOMAN FLAUTIST, AND GIRL DANCING. A: THREE YOUTHS AND TWO FLUTE GIRLS. B: THREE MEN AND TWO FLUTE GIRLS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: ON HANDLE B/A, ON LEFT HASTA, IN THE BG, GR.: Hιεπον εποιεσεν, I.E. Hιε(ρ)ον.(1)
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} PI REPLACES A PINCHED RHO; THE LATTER IS CHARACTERISTIC OF THE HIERON SIGNATURES.
  • CAVI Comments: FOR THE UNCOMMON EXAMPLES OF HIERON' S SIGNATURES ON THE LEFT HANDLE HASTA, SEE KUNISCH, P. 7. DONE WITH A FINE POINT.
  • CAVI Number: 4471
  • AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), NO. 8218. — HARTWIG (1893), 279 AND 687/6. — C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 83 F. — ARV[2] (1963), 468/145, 1654. — NACHBAUR (1978), 68-69, 169-70, CAT. M 29. — M. MEYER (1988), 105, FIGS. 9-10 (A, B). — ADD.[2] (1989), 245. — COHEN (1991), 70, N. 126, FIG. 37 (INSCR.). — ROBERTSON (1992), FIG. 96 (INT.). — D. WILLIAMS, CVA LONDON 9, GREAT BRITAIN 17 (1993), 49/37, PLS. 50-51, FIGS. 3,F (FACS.) AND 9,D (MUCH BIBL.). — KUNISCH (1997), 6, 7, 178/172, FIGS. 14, 15, 17 (DETAILS), PL. 62 (SHOWS PART OF INSCRIPTION) (BIBL.).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: HTTPS://PLEIADES.STOA.ORG/PLACES/413393
  • Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975
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Last updated 31/01/2025 04:06:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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