Attributed To: LYKAON P by RICHTER POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: ODYSSEUS (NAMED), SEATED ON ROCK WITH SWORD, ELPENOR (NAMED), HERMES (NAMED) WITH KERYKEION B: WOMEN, ONE WITH HYDRIA, POSEIDON PURSUING AMYMONE
Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 34.79
Publication Record: Andreae, B. et al., Ulisse, il mito e la memoria (Rome, 1996): 54, FIG.14, M85, FIG.8 (COLOUR AND DRAWING OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1045.2 , 1679 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 444 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.150 (DRAWING OF A) Bonacasa, N. (ed.), Lo Stile Severo in Grecia e in Occidente, Aspetti e problemi, Studi e Materiali 9 (Rome, 1995): PL.6.2 (DRAWING OF A) Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving: 74 (1999) 64, 68, 71, FIGS.1, 4-6 (A, B, UH) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 156 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 320 Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 271, FIG.221 (A) Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 732, FIG.148 (A) Gerion: 27 (2009) 188, FIG.2 (A) Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 322, FIG.206 (A) Journal of Hellenic Studies: 109 (1989), PL.3B (A) Kondoleon, C., Grossmann, R.A., et al., MFA Highlights, Classical Art (Boston, 2008): 70-71 (COLOUR OF A) Lefkowitz, M., Greek Gods, Human Lives (New Haven and London, 2003): 97 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.632, ODYSSEUS 149 (A) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 89, PL.65 (A) Neer, R.T., Art and Archaeology of the Greek World, a new history, c.2500-c.150 BC (London, 2012): 298, FIG.12.4 (DRAWING OF A) Osborne, R., Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Oxford History of Art (Oxford, 1998): 168, FIG.93 (A) Peifer, E., Eidola und andere mit dem Sterben verbundene Flügelwesen in der attischen Vasenmalerei in spätarchaischer und klassischer Zeit (Frankfurt, 1989): PL.5, FIG.10, NO.61 (DRAWING OF A) Powell, B., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The Essential Books (Oxford, 2015): 355, FIG.11.1 (PART OF A) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 213, FIG.223 (A) Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 340, FIG.304 (DRAWING OF A) Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 340, FIG.304 (DRAWING) Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: III, PL.2.GR66A (A) Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 179, 181, FIGS.161, 163 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF A) Vermeule, E., Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Berkeley, 1979): 30, FIG.22 (PART OF A) Vout, C., Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body (London, 2022): 59, FIG,20 (BD) Walter-Karydi, E. (ed.), Myths, Texts, Images, Homeric epics and ancient Greek art, Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Odyssey, Ithaca, September 15-19, 2009 (Ithaca, 2010): 218, FIG.5 (DRAWING OF A, COLOUR OF PARTS OF A) Walter-Karydi, E., Die Athener und ihre Gräber (1000-300 v.Chr.) (Berlin, 2015): 161, FIG.89 (DRAWING OF A) Woodford, S., An Introduction to Greek Art. Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Archaic and Classical Periods. 2nd edition (London, 2015): 136, FIG.199 (A AND DRAWING OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF PELIKE. LYKAON PAINTER. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH. CA. 440 (BEAZLEY).
CAVI Subject: A: ODYSSEUS AND THE SHADE OF ELPENOR. B: POSEIDON AND AMYMONE.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: HIGH ABOVE ELPENOR, BELOW THE MARGIN: Ελπενορος. TO LEFT OF ODYSSEUS'
FACE: Οδυσ[σ]ευς. ENDING ABOVE HERMES' HEAD: Hερμο [[H(ε)ρ]]. UNDER THE FOOT GR.
ΗΕ (M.){1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} NON VIDI; NOT IN JOHNSTON (1979).
CAVI Comments: THE FLORAL ORNAMENTS ARE BY THE SAME HAND AS THOSE ON BERLIN 2352, BY
POLYGNOTOS, AND MUNICH, HANIEL, BY THE KLEOPHON PAINTER; SEE ARV[2] 1031/39 AND
1146/44 (ROBERTSON). MIXED ALPHABET. SYLLABIC HETA (SEE ATTSCR (1990), 143).
CAVI Number: 2800
AVI Bibliography: CB (1931–63), II, 86/111, PL. 63 AND SUPPL. PL. 16. — ARV[2] (1963), 1045/2,
1679. — PARA. (1971), 444. — ADD.[2] (1989), 320. — BOARDMAN (1989), FIG. 150. —
ATTSCR (1990), NO. 766. — ROBERTSON (1992), 212 AND 213, FIG. 223 (A). —
MATHESON (1995), 87, 199-200, 253-54, 431/L2, PL. 65 (A).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
