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203927, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, E71

  • Vase Number: 203927
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI (?)
  • Date: -500 TO -450
  • Attributed To: BRYGOS P by HARTWIG
  • Decoration: A,B: SYMPOSIUM, YOUTHS, ONE KNEELING ON KLINE WITH WINESKIN, ONE DANCING, DRAPED YOUTH AND WOMAN PLAYING PIPES, BASKET AND PIPESCASE SUSPENDED, CAULDRON
    I: KOMOS, YOUTH PLAYING PIPES, WALKING STICK, BASKET (?)
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1866,0805.4 (View on British Museum site)
  • Previous Collections:
    • London, British Museum: E71
  • Publication Record: Archäologische Zeitung: 1870, PL.39
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 372.29
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 248.25
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 178.26
    Buitron-Oliver, D. (ed.), New Perspectives in Early Greek Art (Hanover and London, 1991): 293, FIG.10 (A)
    Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, Budapest: 114-115 (2011) 31, FIG.8 (COLOUR OF A)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 111
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 225
    Cazzato, V. (ed.), The Symposion, Drinking Greek Style, Essays on Greek Pleasure 1983-2017 Oswyn Murray (Oxford, 2018): PL.8 (COLOUR OF A)
    Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 75, FIG.4 (DRAWING OF A)
    Cohen, B. (ed.), Not the Classical Ideal, Athens and the Construction of the Other in Greek Art (Leiden, Boston and Köln, 2000): 193, FIG.7.5 (A)
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 9, 54-55, FIG.10C, PLS.(832-833) 56.A-B, 57.A-B
    Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 78.3 (2009) 375, FIG.2 (A)
    Hubbard, T.K. (ed.), A companion to Greek and Roman Sexualities (Malden, 2014): 132, FIG.8.2 (A, B)
    Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): FIG.49 (I)
    Osborne, R., The Transformation of Athens Painted Pottery and the Creation of Classical Greece (Princeton and Oxford, 2018): 182, FIG.7.16-17, PL.32 (A, B, COLOUR OF B)
    Pallas, Revue d'études antiques: 97 (2015) 95, FIG.7 (A AND B)
    Peschel, I., Die Hetäre bei Symposium und Komos in der attisch rotfigurigen Malerei des 6.-4. Jhs. v.Chr. (Frankfurt, 1987): PL.117 (A, B)
    Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PL.24.1 (A)
    Spivey, N. and Rasmussen, T. (eds.) Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991): 108, FIG.43 (A)
    Sweet, W.E., Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece, A Source Book with Translations (Oxford, 1987): 202, PL.76 (A, UH)
    Wegner, M., Brygosmaler (Berlin, 1973): PLS.1, 27A, 30A, 33A (I,A,B, PARTS OF B)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4649
  • AVI Record Number: 4477
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1866-0805-4
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON E 71.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. FROM VULCI? BRYGOS PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 490. 495-490 (WILLIAMS).
  • CAVI Subject: INT.: A YOUNG KOMAST PLAYING THE FLUTES. EXT.: SYMPOSIUM: A: THREE YOUTHS: AT LEFT, A YOUTH KNEELS ON A COUCH AND WIELDS A(N EMPTY) WINESKIN TO HIT HIS COMPANION WHO IS DANCING IN THE CENTER; AT RIGHT, A YOUTH FACES LEFT, LEANING ON HIS STICK AND PLAYING THE FLUTES. B: TWO YOUTHS AND A FLUTE GIRL.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: INT.: TO LEFT OF THE FLAUTIST'S BACK: ρε[.]ι, RETR. ABOVE THE FLUTES: νονο{1}. A: υνονν{2}. ναν. HHνονο. (THE LAST TWO FROM WILLIAMS). B: SIMILAR, ON EITHER SIDE OF THE FLUTE GIRL'S HEAD: νον ννον{3}. TO RIGHT OF THE SCENE, PARTLY UNDER ONE HANDLE, A LARGE WATER BUCKET (KADOS); ON THE BODY: καλος{4}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} WILLIAMS IN CVA READS: Hο πα[ις]. δε[.]ι, RETR. NONSENSE? {2} ννον, WILLIAMS. {3} MY READING. SMITH HAS: χνονχνον. {4} SMITH, WILLIAMS.
  • CAVI Comments: NOTE THAT THE NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS SEEM TO BE CONNECTED WITH THE FLAUTISTS OR THE FLUTE CASE: DO THEY REPRESENT MUSIC? BUT SINCE ON THE EXT. THEY ARE WIDELY SPACED, THIS IS NOT CERTAIN. THE VASE WAS DIRTY WHEN I SAW IT.
  • CAVI Number: 4477
  • AVI Bibliography: MICHAELIS (1870), 106, PL. 39. — HARTWIG (1893), 327 AND 687/19. — C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 95. — ARV[2] (1963), 372/29. — WEGNER (1973), PLS. 1, 27A, 30A, 33A (INT., A, B AND PARTS OF B). — BRON (1988), 75, FIG. 4 (DR. OF A). — ADD.[2] (1989), 225. — D. WILLIAMS (1991A), 293, FIG. 10 (B). — D. WILLIAMS (1991B), 108, FIG. 43 (B). — D. WILLIAMS, CVA LONDON 9, GREAT BRITAIN 17 (1993), 54/42, PLS. 6-57, FIG. 10,C (PROFILE).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: HTTPS://PLEIADES.STOA.ORG/PLACES/413393
  • Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975
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