Decoration: A: GIGANTOMACHY, GODS AND GIANTS, SOME NAMED, HERMES IN CHITONISKOS AND NEBRIS, ATHENA, SHIELD, WITH WINGED FIGURE, SPHINX, SIREN, PANTHER B: MEN
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.612
Previous Collections:
Athens, National Museum: 15156
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 83.3 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 23 Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.17C Lang-Auinger, C. and Trinkl, E. (eds.), Phyta kai Zoia. Pflanzen und Tiere auf griechischen Vasen, Beihefte zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Österreich, Band 2 (Vienna, 2015): 262, FIG.2A (DRAWING OF PART OF A) Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 196, FIG.97 (PART) Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.18D Zardini, F., The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos, A Study in Greek Vase-Painting and Literature (Verona, 2009): 334, FIG.20
CAVI Lemma: FRS. OF BF KANTHAROS. FROM ATHENS. NEARCHOS. SECOND QUARTER SIXTH. CA.
560-550.
CAVI Subject: A: GIGANTOMACHY. B: MALES{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: FR. A: BELOW THE TOP MARGIN, IN THE LEFT PRESERVED CORNER, TO LEFT OF
HERMES: Nεαρχος [---], RETR. TO LEFT OF HERMES' LEFT KNEE: Hερμες, RETR. ABOVE
THE SAME KNEE: Κε̣[---]. FR. F: ABOVE ONE OF TWO MALE FEET PRESERVED:
[Λυ]χοργος{2}. FR. C: BETWEEN SWORD AND ARM OF WARRIOR, PERHAPS FACING LEFT:
Κ[---]. FR. H (UNASSIGNED): Χο[---].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} FR. H CANNOT BE ASSIGNED, BUT BELONGS (GRAEF; BUT, IF PART OF B, IT WOULD
BE THE ONLY FR. WITH AN INSCRIPTION). {2} SO THE DR.; TEXT OF GRAEF–LANGLOTZ HAS
--]κοργος.
CAVI Comments: = ATHENS, N.M. 15,156. INSCRIPTIONS ARE IN THE PRELIMINARY SKETCH. THE
EARLIEST GIGANTOMACHY (SHAPIRO).
CAVI Number: 0977
AVI Bibliography: GRAEF–LANGLOTZ (1925–33), I, NO. 612, PL. 36 (DR.). — ABV (1956), 83/3. —
SHAPIRO (1984), 528 AND N. 61, PL. 69, FIG. 7 (SHOWS INSCRIPTIONS). — ADD.[2]
(1989), 23.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
