Attributed To: PROMETHEUS P by BOTHMER TYRRHENIAN GROUP by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A1: HERAKLES AND PROMETHEUS, ATHENA WITH WREATH, DEMETER (ALL NAMED), DRAPED MAN SEATED ON STOOL WITH WREATH, BIRD B1: CENTAUROMACHY B2-4: ANIMAL FRIEZES, SPHINXES, SIRENS, PANTHERS, BOAR, LION, RAMS Friezes below 1-2: ANIMAL FRIEZES, SPHINXES, SIRENS, PANTHERS, BOAR, LION, RAMS
Last Recorded Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 76359
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 97.28 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 37 Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.117 (PART OF A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 26 Esposito, A.M. and Tommaso, G. (eds.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Vasi Attici (Firenze, 1993): 25, FIG.20 (COLOUR OF A) Goring, E. (ed.), Treasures from Tuscany, the Etruscan Legacy (Edinburgh, 2004): 111, NO.183 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF B1) Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Wien: 74 (2005) 196, FIG.16 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.598, DEMETER 471 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.425, PROMETHEUS 67 (PART OF A) Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 15.5 (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2004) 12, FIG.12 (COLOUR OF A) Schefold, K., Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der Früh- und Hocharchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1993): 196, FIG.194 (PART OF A) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe (Munich, 1983): 175, FIG.152 (A) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 175, FIG.152 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. Prometheus Painter. Second quarter sixth.
560-550. Early period (Kluiver).
CAVI Subject: A: Liberation of Prometheus. B: Centauromachy.
CAVI Inscriptions: R.'s readings: A: hερμε[ς]. Αθεναια. Προμεθε, retr. The end, -υς or -ς, was
never written. hερακλε[ς]. [Αιετ]ος, retr. Most of this name has disappeared
with some repainting. The restoration is very probable. Δεμετερ. [Ποσει]δ̣ον. My
reading Απ{π}ο[λον] was a mistake; AttScr needs correction.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} omits the name of Prometheus.
CAVI Comments: Restored. The readings of the third and fourth names are uncertain. Open
heta. Dotted theta.
