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8063, ATHENIAN, Gravina, Museum, Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, 177009

  • Vase Number: 8063
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KANTHAROS
  • Provenance: ITALY, GRAVINA
  • Date: -450 to -400
  • Inscriptions: Named: THEANO, MENELEOS, ANTENOR, AGENOR, KASSANDRA, HEKTOR, PARIS, APOLLON, HEKABE
  • Attributed To: ERETRIA P by LO PORTO
  • Decoration: A,B: APOLLO, CASSANDRA, HEKTOR, PARIS, HECUBA, PRIAM, ANTENOR, AGENOR, THEANO, MENELAOS SEATED ON ALTAR (NAMED)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Gravina, Museum: 177009
  • Previous Collections:
    • Taranto, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
  • Publication Record: Atti del Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia: 14 (1974), PL.60 (A, B)
    Ciancio, A., Silbion, Una citta tra Greci e Indigeni (Bari, n.d.): 91-92, FIGS.115-118 (A, B, PARTS OF A AND B)
    Latacz, J. et al., Homer, Der Mythos von Troia in Dichtung und Kunst (Munich, and Basel 2008): 378, NO.117 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.261, APOLLON 874 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.21, AGENOR II1 (PARTS OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.619, THEANO I 2 (PART), 672, KASSANDRA I 31 (B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.362, MENELAOS 10 (A)
    Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): 289, FIG.95B, 292, FIG.98, PL.185, NO.285BIS (INCLUDING PROFILE)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7872
  • AVI Record Number: 7597
  • LIMC ID: 5854
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73f6905ca3354-0
  • CAVI Collection: Tarentum, Museo Nazionale.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF kantharos. From Gravina di Puglia. Eretria Painter. Last quarter fifth. 425-420 (Lezzi-Hafter).
  • CAVI Subject: A: fragmentary: Helenes Apaitesis: Menelaus and Odysseus seated on the altar (of Athena), with Theano, Antenor and his son Agenor. B: Hector and Paris departing for war.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: to the upper right of a woman: Θεανο. High above Menelaus' head: Μενελεο[ς]. Odysseus' name is lost in a break. Above Antenor's head: Αντενορ. Above Agenor's head: Αγενορ. B: above a woman with a phiale: Κασ[σ]ανδρα. To right of Hector's helmet (he looks left): hεκτορ [[h(ε)]]{1}. To the upper right of young Paris (who faces right): Πα̣ρις. Similar to upper right of Apollo (who faces left), starting above his head: Απολλον. At Hecuba's lower left (she faces left), not facing: hεκαβε [[h(ε)]]{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} syllabic heta; shows well in pl. 185,b. {2} also syllabic.
  • CAVI Comments: On the Helenes Apaitesis see M.I. Davies (1977), 73-85, esp. 80-82. Mixed alphabet. Ionic with syllabic heta and three-troke sigma. Rho with elongated loop typical of the Eretria Painter.
  • CAVI Number: 7597
  • AVI Bibliography: Lo Porto (1974), 348, pl. 9. — LIMC ii (1984), pl. 261, Apollon 874. — Lezzi-Hafter (1988), 292, fig. 98 (details of inscribed figures), 293, 352/285 bis, pl. 185,a-b (A, B; both show inscriptions).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
  • Pleiades URI: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442796
  • Coordinates: 40.819006,16.420097
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 40.8191945,16.416637

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