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205560, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, Paris, Vicomte Beugnot, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1849,0620.14

  • Vase Number: 205560
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: PELIKE
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -500 to -450
  • Inscriptions: Named: POSEIDON, EPHAISTOS, ZEUS, ATHENA, HILEITHYA, ARTEMIS, NIKE, DIONYSOS
  • Attributed To: BIRTH OF ATHENA, P OF THE by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A,B: BIRTH OF ATHENA, ZEUS, POSEIDON, HEPHAISTOS, ARTEMIS, EILEITHYIA, DIONYSOS (ALL NAMED), WINGED WOMAN, DRAPED YOUTH, DRAPED MAN, OLD MAN, BOTH WITH STAFFS
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E410
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): PL.8B (A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 494.1, 1656
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 304.1, 476
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 380
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.355 (A)
    Brinkmann, V. (ed.), Athen. Triumph der Bilder. Eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main 4.Mai bis 4.September 2016 (Frankfurt, 2016): 37, 153, FIG.9 (COLOUR OF A), NO.10 (COLOUR OF A)
    Brule, P., Women of Ancient Greece (Edinburgh, 2003): 53 (A)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 122
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 250
    Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): I, PLS.3-4 (COLOUR DRAWING OF A AND B)
    Hildebrandt, F., Antike Bilderwelten, Was griechische Vasen erzählen (Mainz, 2017): 45, FIG.38 (COLOUR OF PART OF A)
    Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Classical Athens. An Understanding through Images (Leiden and Boston, 2014): 85, FIG.42 (DRAWING OF A AND B)
    Lefkowitz, M., Greek Gods, Human Lives (New Haven and London, 2003): 23 (A)
    Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): I, PLS.64-65 (COLOUR DRAWINGS OF A AND B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: II, PL.550, ARTEMIS 1275 (A), PL.745, ATHENA 358 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.402, HEPHAISTOS 201 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.241, ZEUS ADD.64 (PART OF A)
    Smith, A.H., The sculptures of the Parthenon (London, 1910): 7, FIG.10
    Stark, M., Göttliche Kinder, Ikonographische Untersuchung zu den Darstellungskonzeptionen von Gott und Kind bzw. Gott und Mensch in der griechischen Kunst (Stuttgart, 2012): PL.18A (A)
    Williams, D., The East Pediment of the Parthenon, from Perikles to Nero (London, 2013): 55, FIG.53 (PART OF A)
    de La Geniere, J. (ed.), Hera, Images, espaces, cultes, Actes du Coll.Int.du Cent. de Rech. Archeologiques de l'Univ. de Lille III 1993 (Naples,1997): 101, FIG.7 (A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4757
  • AVI Record Number: 4585
  • LIMC ID: 26165
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-751670768029c-6
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1849-0620-14
  • CAVI Collection: London E 410.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Vulci. Painter of Birth of Athena. Second quarter fifth.
  • CAVI Subject: A-B: Birth of Athena.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: The inscriptions above the figures: A: Ποσειδων. Εφαιστος. Ζευς. Αθενα{1}. hιλειθυα, retr. Αρτεμις, retr. Nike is not inscribed. B: Διονυσος. Under the foot, a red Dip.: AΓ [[lig.]]{2}. Johnston (1979), 89/2B,6 and 179/30.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Threatte (1980), 272. {2} could be ΑΝ [[lig.]], see Johnston (1979).
  • CAVI Comments: Readings from the BM Cat. Mixed alphabet.
  • CAVI Number: 4585
  • AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7403. — Kretschmer (1894), 157. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 256-57 (not ill.). — ARV[2] (1963), 494/1, 1656. — Para. (1971), 380. — Add.[2] (1989), 250. — AttScr (1990), no. 690.
  • 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/413393
  • Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975

Last updated 26/07/2024 18:23:00 by Parker, Greg. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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