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205990, ATHENIAN, Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale, Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale, Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale, 2124

  • Vase Number: 205990
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KRATER, BELL
  • Provenance: ITALY, SICILY, AGRIGENTO
  • Date: -500 TO -450
  • Inscriptions: Named: HIPPOTHON, KELEON, PHEREPHASA, TRIPTOLEMOS, DEMETER
  • Attributed To: OREITHYIA P by JAHN
  • Decoration: A: TRIPTOLEMOS WITH PHIALE IN WINGED CHARIOT, DEMETER, PERSEPHONE, DRAPED MEN WITH STAFFS, IONIC COLUMN
    B: ZEUS SEATED WITH THUNDERBOLT, WOMEN (EOS AND THETIS ?)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale: V779
  • Previous Collections:
    • Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale: 2124
    • Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale: 2557
  • Publication Record: Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): PL.39B (B)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 496.5
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 293.3
    Braccesi, L. et al., Veder Greco, le necropoli di Agrigento, mostra internazionale, Agrigento, 2. maggio - 31. luglio 1988 (Rome, 1988): 56-7, FIGS.11-12, 208-209, NO.66, COVER (A, B)
    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
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PALERMO, MUSEO NAZIONALE 1, III.I.C.18, III.I.C.19, PLS.(692,693,694) 35.1-2,36.1-6,37.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates
    Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): III, PL.62 (COLOUR DRAWING OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.330, HIPPOTHOON 10 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.586, DEMETER 346 (A)
    Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 13.6 (NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2002) 15, FIG.27 (COLOUR OF A)
    Moscati, S. and Di Stefano, C.A., Palermo, Museo Archeologico (Palermo, 1991): 108, NO.123 (COLOUR OF A)
    Overbeck, J., Atlas der griechischen Kunstmythologie (Leipzig, 1871-78): PL.15.30 (A)
    Politi, R., Cinque vasi di premio rinvenuti in un sepolcro agrigentino (Palermo, 1841): PLS.7-8
    Raoul-Rochette, Choix de peintures de Pompei (Paris, 1867): 5 (B)
    Voza, G. et al., Sizilien, Von Odysseus bis Garibaldi (Bonn, 2008): 243, NO.41 (COLOUR OF A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=6300
  • AVI Record Number: 6066
  • LIMC ID: 1105
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-73B31CDEDDEAE-C
  • CAVI Collection: PALERMO, MUSEO NAZIONALE V 779.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF BELL KRATER. FROM AGRIGENTO. OREITHYIA PAINTER. SECOND QUARTER FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: A: DEPARTURE OF TRIPTOLEMOS, WITH DEMETER, PERSEPHONE, KELEOS AND HIPPOTHOON. B: EOS AND THETIS APPEALING TO ZEUS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: TRIPTOLEMOS. HIPPOTHON. (PH)EREPHASA{1}. DEMETER. KELEOS. B: HEOS. ZEUS. THETIS.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} THE FIRST PHI HAS A DOT INSIDE THE CIRCLE. READ: PHEREFAS[S]A.
  • CAVI Comments: S.B. MATHESON (LISTS AS: PALERMO, MUSEO REGIONALE 2124): CELEUS WAS THE ELEUSINIAN KING WHO SHELTERED DEMETER AND BUILT HER TEMPLE AT ELEUSIS (CF. HYMDEM), FATHER OF TRIPTOLEMOS, ACCORDING TO A VERSION IN APOLLODOROS. THE VASE SHOWS A COLUMN BEHIND HIM: THE TEMPLE? HIPPOTHOON FOUNDED THE TRIBE TO WHICH THE DEME OF ELEUSIS BELONGED; HE HAD A HEROON AT ELEUSIS (PAUS. 1.38.4). HE APPEARS ON MALIBU 89.AE.73, A DINOS BY THE SYLEUS PAINTER, CLINTON (1992), 106F., FIGS. 43-47.
  • CAVI Number: 6066
  • AVI Bibliography: TILLYARD (1923), 70 (NOT ILL.). — BEAZLEY (1935), 487 (MENTION). — I. BOVIO, CVA PALERMO 1, ITALY 14 (1938), PLS. 35-36 AND 37,1-3 (PL. 30,4 SHOWS TWO INSCRIPTIONS). — ARV[2] (1963), 496/5, 1632. — ADD.[2] (1989), 250. — LIMC V (1990), 471, PL. 330, HIPPOTHOON 10. — MATHESON (1994), 354-55.
  • 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/462086
  • Coordinates: 37.311199,13.576784
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 37.290594,13.585475
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