10148, ATHENIAN, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum, Greenwich (CT), private, M. and W. Bareiss, 90.AE.15
Decoration: Body: GIGANTOMACHY, ATHENA, POSEIDON WITH NISYROS (BOTH NAMED), HERAKLES, GIANTS (NAMED, PORPHYRION, ENKELADOS), CHARIOT, SHIELD DEVICE, PROTOME OF LION
Last Recorded Collection: Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 82.AE.26
Previous Collections:
Greenwich (CT), private, M. and W. Bareiss: 351
Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 90.AE.15
Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: L.88.AE.46
Malibu (CA), The J. Paul Getty Museum: 86.AE.143
Publication Record: Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MALIBU, J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM 2, 20-22, FIG.10, PL.(1246) 72.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Greek Vases, Molly and Walter Bareiss Collections, the Paul Getty Museum (Malibu, 1983): 27, NO.15 Meyer, M., Athena, Göttin von Athen. Kult und Mythos auf der Akropolis bis in klassische Zeit, Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 16 (Vienna, 2017): 613, FIG.233 Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 167, FIG.1 PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 4
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of BF pyxis{1}. BMN Painter (Bothmer). Third quarter sixth. Ca. 540
(Bother).
CAVI Subject: A: part, top of scene: Gigantomachy: Heracles (probably on the chariot pole);
Athena; horses of Zeus' chariot (he is missing); Porphyrion and Enkelados. Loan
frs.: upper part of Poseidon, with the island of Nisyros on the shoulder; parts
of other figures.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Athena's forehead: Α(θ)[εναια]{2}. To left of the first
giant's helmet crest, along the top margin: Φορφυριον, retr.{3}. Starting in the
same position from the second giant's helmet crest: Εν^κελαδο(ς), retr.{4}.
Above Poseidon's head: Ποσε̣ιδον, retr.{5}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Nicosthenic shape. {2} the theta smudged. {3} the nu raised, covering the
top margin line. {4} the first giant's spear arm intervenes. The sigma sideways.
The inscription fills the whole available space: planned? {5} note that Poseidon
faces right, unlike the giants whose names are also retr.
CAVI Comments: Ex S.82.AE.26. Ex Bareiss 351. + L.88.AE.46 (see CVA, pl. 72,2). GettyMusJ 19
adds ten new frs. Archaic lettering.
CAVI Number: 4997
AVI Bibliography: Bothmer–Bean (1969), no. 28. — J. Paul Getty Museum (1983), 73/75; also 27/15
(ill.). — LIMC iv (1988), 217, Gigantes 116 (loan no. incorrect), and 256,
Gigantes. — A.J. Clark, CVA Malibu 2, USA 25 (1990), pl. 72,1-2, fig. (profile).
— True (1991), 138/12.1-10.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
