217215, ATHENIAN, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, 35085
Decoration: PROMETHEUS, ATHENA, LEDA (ALL NAMED), DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF, WOMAN (?), PAN, PEITHO (NAMED)
Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: AST124-7
Previous Collections:
Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 35085
Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 35084
Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 35083
Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 35082
Publication Record: Avramidou, A., The Codrus Painter, Iconography and reception of Athenian vases in the age of Pericles (Madison, 2011): 8, 20, 120, FIGS.2.4, 3.6 PL.17 (WITH NON-JOINING FRAGMENTS ?) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1269.6 Kurtz, D. (ed.), Essays in Classical Archaeology for Eleni Hatzivassiliou 1977-2007 (Oxford, 2008): 192, FIG.5 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.180, PEITHO 47 (PART) Rocco, G., La collezione Astarita nel Museo Gregoriano Etrusco. Ceramica attica bilingue a figure rosse e vernice near (Vatican, 2016): PL.197, NO.211 (INCL DRAWING OF PARTS) Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 200, FIG.161 (PART)
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF cup. Codrus Painter. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 430 (Beazley
(1960a); Shapiro).
CAVI Subject: Unexplained subject: Shapiro: Helen and Paris? (Beazley thought, Birth of
Aphrodite.) Fr. a: torso and head of an elderly Prometheus; Leda; Athena. Fr. b:
the outstretched arm of Peitho beside a head with horns (Pan); two more frs. may
have parts of the same figures. The American frs.: three more women's heads,
including that of Timandra, daughter of Tyndareus and Leda.
CAVI Inscriptions: Fr. a: upper part of a white-haired man, who is leaning on his stick. To
right of his head: Προμεθ[ευς]{2}. Αθεν[αια]. Ληδα. Πειθω. US fr.: Timandra.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the entry needs correction. {2} so AJA 64; Προμε[θευς], ARV[2].
CAVI Comments: Four Astarita frs. + two formerly in an American private collection. Mixed
alphabet.
