Attributed To:Compare PHRYNOS P by MOMMSEN GROUP E by UNKNOWN
Decoration: A: BIRTH OF ATHENA, ZEUS, HERA, EILEITHYIA, POSEIDON, HEPHAISTOS, GODDESS B: INTRODUCTION OF HERAKLES ON OLYMPOS (ZEUS, HERA ? HERMES, ATHENA, HERAKLES, POSEIDON, YOUTH WITH SPEAR, DEVICE, GORGONEION)
Last Recorded Collection: Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: BS1921.328
Previous Collections:
Ticino, Athos Moretti
Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: 103.4
Basel, Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig: BS496
Publication Record: Angiolillo, S., Arte e cultura nell'Atene di Pisistrato e dei Pisistratidi (Bari, 1997): 52, 83, FIGS.25, 41 (A, I) Antike Kunst: 32 (1989), PL.27.2 (B) Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 70-71, FIGS.12A-B (COLOUR OF A AND B) Dietrich, N., Das Attribut als Problem, Eine bildwissenschaftliche Untersuchung zur griechischen Kunst (Berlin, Munich, and Boston, 2018): 7, FIG.1.2 (DRAWING OF A) Ephemeris Archaiologike: 128 (1989) 106, FIG.1 (A, B) Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums, Mainz: 8 (1961), 69, PL.37 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.745, ATHENA 353 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.462, HEPHAISTOS 193 (PART OF A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.247, ZEUS ADD.140 (B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.113, HERAKLES 2850 (A) Metis: 5 (1990) 1-2, 68, FIGS.7-8 (DRAWINGS OF A AND B) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 42 (2007) 29, FIG.12 (B) NOTES FROM BEAZLEY ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC MOUNT(S): CF SOMEWHAT GENEVA [M]F154 [BEAZLEY] PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 9 (A, B, PART OF A) Schefold, K., Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art. English translation by A. Griffiths (Cambridge, 1992): FIGS.4, 37 (A, B) Schefold, K., Götter und Heldensagen der Griechen in der spätarchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1978): 17, FIG.4 (A), 39, FIG.37 (B) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.47B (B) Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 78, FIG.37 (COLOUR OF A) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens, 2009): 83, FIG.3 (A) de La Geniere, J. (ed.), Hera, Images, espaces, cultes, Actes du Coll.Int.du Cent. de Rech. Archeologiques de l'Univ. de Lille III 1993 (Naples,1997): 104, FIGS.10-11 (A, PART OF A)
CAVI Subject: A: Birth of Athena: in the center, Zeus seated while giving birth (Athena,
armed, springs forth from his head); at left, Hephaestus between a goddess and
an Eileithyia; at right, another Eileithyia; Hera enthroned; Poseidon. B:
Introduction of Heracles into Olympus: in the center, Athena; at left, Zeus,
Hera and Hermes; at right, Heracles, Poseidon, and Iolaus.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: to Athena's left, above Zeus' head and over the head of the left
Eileithyia: ενενενε. Between Athena's shield, above Hera's head and to left of
Poseidon's outstretched hand: four letters, the third an omicron{2}. B: between
Hera's and Hermes' lower legs, facing Hera: ευ(.)ν(ϝ)γ{3}. Between the faces of
Hermes and Athena: οτοε(γ)ενε(σ){4}. To right of Heracles' face: εονενει, retr.
Between Athena's and Heracles' lower legs: ενε(σ)ενι. Under foot, Gr.: Ε.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Mommsen 137: by the same hand as Würzburg 241, which Beazley
attributed to the Phrynos Painter. M. is non-committal on how the vase in Basel
would affect the work of the Phrynos Painter. {2} not legible in the photo. {3}
the third letter unclear in the photo.; the `digamma' probably a badly written
epsilon. {4} the fifth letter unclear in the photo. The last perhaps a reversed
three-stroke sigma.
CAVI Comments: Done from the photos in AK, since M. does not transcribe the inscriptions.
CAVI Number: 2006
AVI Bibliography: LIMC ii (1984), 987, Athena 353* (pl. 745). — LIMC iii (1986), 687,
Eileithyia 6. — LIMC iv (1988), 646, Hephaistos 193* (pl. 402); 691, Hera 288,
and 714, Hera 461. — Malagardis (1988a), 104-114. — H. Mommsen (1989), 134ff.
(facs. of Gr., p. 134), pls. 26,2,4, and 27 (much bibl. in n. 96). — LIMC v
(1990), 123, Herakles 2850*, Hermes 555. — LIMC vi (1992), Moirai 16.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
