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350341, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 61.1073

  • Vase Number: 350341
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP, LITTLE MASTER BAND
  • Date: -550 to -500
  • Inscriptions: NEANDROS
    Signature: NEANORO[S] EPO[IE]SEN
  • Attributed To: NEANDROS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A: LIONS ATTACKING BULL, PANTHER ATTACKING DEER, BETWEEN SIRENS
    B: LION ATTACKING BOAR, PANTHERS ATTACKING DEER, BETWEEN SIRENS
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 61.1073
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 69.3
    Böhm, S., Sphingen und Sirenen im archaischen Griechenland, Symbole der Ambivalenz in Bildszenen und Tierfriesen (Regensburg, 2020): 141, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF B)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 47
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 2, 40, PLS.(932,933) 98.3-4, 99.4 View Whole CVA Plates
    Heesen, P., Athenian Little-Master Cups (Amsterdam, 2011): 131, FIG.80, PL.60C-D (A, B, PROFILE)
    Hofstetter, E. et al., Vorsicht Lebensgefahr! Sirenen, Nixen, Meerjungfrauen in der Kunst seit der Antike, Katalog einer Ausstellung im Winckelmann-Museum vom 20. Oktober 2013 bis 19. Januar 2014 (Ruhpolding and Mainz, 2013): 44, FIG.38 (PART OF A)
    Immerwahr, H., Attic Script, A Survey (Oxford, 1990): PL.14.62-65 (A, B)
    Vermeule, E., Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Berkeley, 1979): 91, FIG.11 (PART OF A)
    Zenzen, N., Das edle Ungeheuer, Die Semantik des Löwen in Bildwerken des antiken Vorderen Orients und Griechenlands, Tübinger Archäologische Forschungen 26 (Rahden, 2018): 366, FIG.48 (A, B)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2953
  • AVI Record Number: 2805
  • CAVI Collection: Boston 61.1073.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF band cup. Neandros Painter. Neandros, potter. Third quarter sixth.
  • CAVI Subject: Handle zone: A: two lions attacking a bull; a panther attacking a doe; all between sirens. B: a lion attacking a boar; two panthers attacking a doe; all between sirens.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: σερεν. ταυρος h[ο]υτος, retr. Nεανδρο̣[ς] : ε̣πο[ιε]σεν, ευ γε. παρδαλις hεδι, να[ι]χι, ναι με. σερεν hοδι γε, ναίχι{ν}. B: ευ γε, ναιχι, ναι με, retr. λhεον τον καπρο[ν] τονδ[ε], ναιχι. Nεανδρος : εποιεσεν, ευ γε. [ελαφ]ος hεδι.
  • CAVI Comments: In AttScr, A and B are reversed from Beazley's order. Heta once closed, otherwise open. The letters rather variable. For the form σερεν see M. Scheller, MusHelv. 38 (1981) 226. For h[ο]υτος and να[ι]χι see Threatte (1980), 269. [[Diameter: 230.]]
  • CAVI Number: 2805
  • AVI Bibliography: M&M-Auction (1961), pl. 38/125. — Para. (1971), 69 and 70/1. — [[Gropengiesser (1977), 591 with ph. fig. 12 (quite cl.)]]. — [[*M. True et al., CVA Boston 2, USA 19 (1978), pl. 98,3–4]]. — Scheller (1981), 220-27, pls. 1-2. — Add.[2] (1989), 47 (much bibl.). — AttScr (1990), no. 229, figs. 62-65.
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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Last updated 15/12/2025 07:23:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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