Attributed To: BIRTH OF ATHENA, P OF THE by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: POSEIDON PURSUING AMYMONE, WITH HYDRIA, WOMEN, ONE WITH EROS, ONE WITH FLOWER (APHRODITE AND DANAID ?), DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE (DANAOS) B: ZEUS PURSUING WOMAN, WOMEN, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 20846
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 494.2 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 305.2 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 122 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 250 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ROMA, MUSEO NAZIONALE ETRUSCO DI VILLA GIULIA 4, 32,33,34, FIG.13, PLS.(2896,2897) 29.1-2, 30.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 358, NO.114 (COLOUR OF A, B)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Cerveteri. Painter of Birth of Athena. Second quarter fifth.
450-440 (?).
CAVI Subject: A: Poseidon and Amymone. B: Zeus pursuing a woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: Horizontal: A: to right of the forehead: Αφ[ρ]οδιτε. Similar: Ποσειδων. Above
the head: Αμυμωνε. B: two inscriptions: Ποσειδων. Αμυμωνε, retr. Under the foot,
Dip.: ligature ΑΜ [[lig.]].
CAVI Comments: There is confusion between this and Villa Giulia 20,847 in the literature;
they are replicas. According to CB ii, 90, the inscriptions on B are misapplied.
The facss. in CVA are very poor. Mixed alphabet. I saw no dotted delta.
CAVI Number: 7151
AVI Bibliography: Ricci (1955), 291-2, figs. 47a-b, pl. 5. — ARV[2] (1963), 494/2. — Johnston
(1979), 89/2B 4 and 179/s.l. 2, 28. — Kaempf-Dimitriadou (1979), 26f., 55,
95/234 = 99/281, pl. 18,6-7 (A, B). — Add.[2] (1989), 250. — AttScr (1990), no.
691. — G. Barbieri, CVA Villa Giulia 4, Italy 64 (1991), pls. 29-30, fig. 13.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
