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310027, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1897.7-27.2

  • Vase Number: 310027
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Date: -575 to -525
  • Inscriptions: Named: NEOPTOLEMOS, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AMPHILOCHOS, AMTIPHATES, AJAX, PHOINIX
  • Attributed To: TIMIADES P by BOTHMER
    TYRRHENIAN GROUP by WALTERS
  • Decoration: A,B2-3: ANIMAL FRIEZES, RAMS, SIRENS, PANTHERS, SWAN, FLORAL
    A1: SACRIFICE OF POLYXENE, OVER ALTAR, NEOPTOLEMOS, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AMPHILOCHOS, AJAX, PHOINIX (ALL NAMED), STOOL
    B1: KOMOS, MAN AND YOUTHS DANCING BETWEEN COCKS
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1897,0727.2 (View on British Museum site)
  • Previous Collections:
    • London, British Museum: 1897.7-27.2
  • Publication Record: Ahlberg-Cornell, G., Myth and Epos in Early Greek Art, Representation and Interpretation (Jonsered, 1992): 303, FIG.74 (DRAWING OF A)
    American Journal of Archaeology: 100 (1996) 62, FIG.5 (A1)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 97.27, 683
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 37
    Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 240, FIG.263 (A1)
    Bonnechere, P., and Gagne, R. (eds.), Sacrifices humains, Perspectives croisees et representations, Human sacrifice, Cross-cultural perspectives and representations (Liege, 2013): PL.5 (COLOUR OF A)
    Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving: 64 (1989) 46, FIG.46 (DRAWING OF A)
    Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving: 68 (1993) 192, FIG.3C (PROFILE OF RIM)
    Bundrick, S.D., Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery (Madison, 2019): 56, FIG.3.4 (A)
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.23 (PART OF A)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 26
    Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery (London, 1966): PL.20B (A)
    Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery 3rd ed. (London, 1997): PL.20B (A)
    Gebauer, J., Pompe und Thysia, attische Tieropferdarstellungen auf schwarz- und rotfigurigen Vasen (Münster, 2002): 735, FIG.160 (A1)
    Grmek, M. and Gourevitch, D., Les maladies dans l'art antique (1998): 75, FIG.38 (A1)
    Hedreen, G., Capturing Troy, The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 2001): FIG.36 (PART OF A1)
    Himmelmann, N., Tieropfer in der griechischen Kunst, Nordrheinwestfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vorträge G 349 (Opladen, 1997): 24, FIG.12 (PART OF A1)
    Journal of Hellenic Studies: 130 (2010) 115, FIG.4 (A)
    Latacz, J. and Korfmann, M. (eds.), Troja, Traum und Wirklichkeit (Stuttgart, 2001): 138, FIG.144 (COLOUR OF A)
    Latacz, J. et al., Homer, Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst (Munich, and Basel 2008): 405, NO.156 (COLOUR OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.347, POLYXENE 26, PL.755, NESTOR 34 (PARTS OF A)
    Marconi, E. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture (Oxford, 2015): 339, FIG.14.4 (A)
    Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 13.1 (JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2002) 14, FIG.5 (COLOUR OF A)
    Neils, J., Women in the ancient world (London, 2011): 46 (COLOUR OF A1)
    Oakley, J., The Greek Vase, Art of the Story Teller (London, 2013): 15, FIG.6 (COLOUROF A)
    Schafer, A, Unterhaltung beim griechischen Symposium (Mainz, 1997): PL.13.2 (B1)
    Schefold, K., Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der Früh- und Hocharchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1993): 334, FIG.381 (PART OF A)
    Smith, T.J., Komast Dancers in Archaic Greek Art (Oxford, 2010): 317, PL.14B (B1)
    Spivey, N. and Rasmussen, T. (eds.) Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991): 140, FIG.58 (A)
    Stampolidis, N.C. et al. (eds.), Beyond. Death and Afterlife in Ancient Greece (Athens, 2014): 60, FIG.6 (COLOUR OF A)
    Sweet, W.E., Sport and Recreation in Ancient Greece, A Source Book with Translations (Oxford, 1987): 190, PL.6.8 (B)
    Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: I, PL.34, GR595 (A)
    Villing, A. et al., Troy, myth and reality (London, 2019): 108, FIG.90 (COLOUR OF A)
    van Straten, F.T., Hiera Kala, Images of Animal Sacrifice in Archaic and Classical Greece (Leiden, 1995): FIG.118 (DRAWING OF A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4871
  • AVI Record Number: 4697
  • LIMC ID: 11175
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7441e0ceced38-5
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1897-0727-2
  • CAVI Collection: London 97.7-27.2.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF Tyrrhenian neck amphora. Timiades Painter (Bothmer). Middle period (Kluiver). Second quarter sixth. 560-550.
  • CAVI Subject: A: The Sacrifice of Polyxena. B: komos: youths dancing between cocks.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: by a bearded hero: Nεστορ Πυλιος. By a bearded warrior, facing him: Διομεδες. Between the legs of a bearded warrior: Nεοπτολεμος, retr. Above Polyxena's head: Πολυσχενε, retr., for Πολυχσενε. Behind a warrior's legs: Ανφιλοχος, retr. Behind another warrior's legs, similar: Αντ̣ιφατες, retr. To right of another warrior's body, two inscriptions, both downward:{1}. Αιας v. Ιλιαδες̣. Φοινιχς{ι}, retr. [[Addenda, a shorter version:]] C] Nεστορ Π̣υλιος. Διομεδες. Nεοπτολεμος, retr. Πολυσχενε, retr.{2}. Ανφ̣ιλοχος, retr. Αντ̣ιφατες, retr. Αια̣ς Ιλιαδες{3}. Φοινιχς, retr.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} For the arrangement of the two inscriptions and the extra iota see AttScr. Ιλιαδες is probably for Οιλιαδες, referring to the Lesser Ajax, although no omicron was ever written. {2} [[from Addenda]] σχ may be metathesis for χσ (R. apud K.). {3} [[from Addenda]] need not be a misspelling as HRI, AttScr (1990), 41 n. 24, suggests; "it is a synonym." [Meaning what?].
  • CAVI Comments: Large and coarse letters. Sigma is always reversed. Threatte (1996), 148, gives parallels for the name Antiphates.
  • CAVI Number: 4697
  • AVI Bibliography: Bothmer (1944), 166/5. — ABV (1956), 97/27, 683. — Dugas (1960), pl. 42 (A). — Para. (1971), 37 [[mentions the attribution by v. Bothmer]]. — Add.[2] (1989), 26 (much bibl.). — AttScr (1990), no. 175. — Kluiver (1995), 67/45 and 72/45 (inscriptions done by C.J. Ruijgh) (not ill.). — Threatte (1996), 148.
  • 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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