Attributed To:Manner of PELEUS P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: AB1: GIGANTOMACHY, HEKATE WITH TORCHES, DIONYSOS (NAMED) WITH LION, SATYR WITH ROCK, ATHENA (NAMED), HERAKLES WITH BOW, ZEUS (NAMED) WITH SPEAR, EAGLE, POSEIDON (NAMED) WITH TRIDENT AND ROCK (NISYROS), GIANTS, SOME FALLING, ONE WITH SWORD, SHIELD AND ROCK (SOME NAMED) AB2: CHARIOTEER IN CHARIOT, NIKE WITH KENTRON IN CHARIOT
Last Recorded Collection: Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina: 2892
Previous Collections:
Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina: T300
Publication Record: Alfieri, N. and Arias, P.E., Spina, Die neuentdeckte Etruskerstadt und die griechischen Vasen ihrer Gräber (Munich, 1958): PLS.66-67 Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): PL.5 (A,B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1041.6 , 1679 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 443 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 156 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 319 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: FERRARA, MUSEO NAZIONALE 1, 08-09, PL.(1663) 19.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 562, FIG.394 (A2) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.141, GIGANTES 315 (N) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 196, PLS.153A-B (A, PART OF B) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 322, FIG.222 (PART OF AB1)
CAVI Collection: Ferrara, Museo Nazionale di Spina 2892.
CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. From Spina. Manner of Peleus Painter. Third quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Upper row: A-B: Gigantomachy. Lower row: A: two chariots, one driven by Nike.
B: Gigantomachy.
CAVI Inscriptions: Upper row: A: above the head: Ζευς. Above the head of a falling giant:
Πορ[φυριον]. To Poseidon's right: [Ποσει]δων. Above the giant fighting him:
Πο[λυβοτες]. B: to right of Dionysus' head: Διονυσος. Above Athena's head (she
faces left): Αθην[αια]. Apollon. Lower row: A: Nike is the charioteer of the
chariot in front. Above the chariot: Nικη. No doubt, originally the other
charioteers also had names{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} wrong attribution to Polygnotos (Beazley in ARV[2]). {2} all Greek
readings from the photos in CVA, as Arias' text is unreliable.
CAVI Comments: = T 300.
CAVI Number: 3474
AVI Bibliography: Aurigemma (1935), 174, pl. 93. — ARV[1] (1942), 678/30{1}. — ARV[2] (1963),
1041/6, 1679. — P.E. Arias, CVA Ferrara 1, Italy 37 (1963), pl. 19,1-2. — Para.
(1971), 443. — LIMC iii (1986), pl. 375, Dionysos 656. — LIMC iv (1988), pl.
141, Gigantes 315. — Add.[2] (1989), 319. — Matheson (1995), 245, 443/PEM7, pl.
153A-B.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
