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)
