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220511, ATHENIAN, Paestum, Museo Archeologico Nazionale

  • Vase Number: 220511
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: FRAGMENT
  • Provenance: ITALY, PAESTUM
  • Date: -450 TO -400
  • Inscriptions: Named: AGAMEMNON
  • Attributed To: MEIDIAS P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body 1: WOMAN RUNNING
    Body 2: MAN (AGAMEMNON?), NAMED
  • Last Recorded Collection: Paestum, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1314.19
    Burn, L., The Meidias Painter (Oxford, 1987): PL.38E
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=6259
  • AVI Record Number: 6025
  • CAVI Collection: PAESTUM.
  • CAVI Lemma: FR. OF RF POT. FROM PAESTUM. MEIDIAS PAINTER. LAST QUARTER FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: TWO-ROW: UPPER ROW: UPPER PART OF A FEMALE FIGURE; AT LEFT, A BIT OF ANOTHER? LOWER ROW: A BEARDED MALE CROUCHING WITH KNEES DRAWN UP TO HIS CHIN, WHICH HE SUPPORTS WITH HIS RIGHT HAND.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: LOWER ROW: Α[γ]α[μεμνων](?){1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} BEAZLEY'S SUGGESTION AS A POSSIBILITY; THE LETTERS ARE GIVEN AS ..Α.Α.., WHICH DOES NOT QUITE AGREE WITH THE POSSIBLE RESTORATION. BEAZLEY'S SUGGESTION IS REPORTED BY BURN WITH A QUESTION MARK. AGAMEMNON IS CERTAIN ON TARENTUM 4529, ALSO BY THE MEIDIAS PAINTER, ACCORDING TO BURN M 23. ON P. 62, BURN DISCUSSES THE POSSIBILITY OF READING Α[ι]ας, BUT REJECTS IT.
  • CAVI Comments: FOR THE PENSIVE AGAMEMNON, SEE TARENTUM 4529, FR. OF A RF LEKANIS, MANNER OF THE MEIDIAS PAINTER (MAY BE BY SELF!), ARV[2] 1326/77 (BEAZLEY).
  • CAVI Number: 6025
  • AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 1314/19. ? BURN (1987), 60, 100/M 35, PL. 38,E.
  • 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/442733
  • Coordinates: 40.418332,15.00535
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 40.42064875,15.00532475
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