Attributed To:Manner of CENTAUR P by METZLER Perhaps TLESON by METZLER
Decoration: A1: ARTISAN, POTTER AT WHEEL, YOUTH TURNING WHEEL A2: NONSENSE INSCRIPTION B1: ARTISAN, POTTER AT WHEEL, DRAPED MAN B2: NONSENSE INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum: 67.90
Publication Record: 150 Jahre Antikensammlungen in Karlsruhe, Badisches Landesmuseum 1838-1988: 134, NO.92 (A) 235 (DRAWING OF A1) Archäologischer Anzeiger: 1969, 141, FIGS.1, 2, 143, FIGS.3, 4 Belloni, L., Bonandini, A., Ierano, G., and Moretti, G. (eds.), Le Immagini nel Testo, il Testo nelle Immagini, Rapporti fra parola e visualita nella tradizione greco-latina (Trento, 2010): 71, FIG.14 (A, B, PARTS) Bentz, M., Geominy, W., and Müller, J.M. (eds.), TonArt, Virtuosität antiker Töpfertechnik. Eine Ausstellung im Akademischen Kunstmuseum-Antikensammlung der Universität Bonn 18.November 2010-17. April 2011 (Petersberg, 2010): 13, 122-123, NO.87 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Bernhard-Walcher, A., Alltag, Feste, Religion, Antikes Leben auf griechischen Vasen, eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums (Vienna, 1991): 21, FIG.12 (A) Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 143, FIG.176 (A) Bol, P.C., and Kreikenbom, D. (eds.), Polyklet, Der Bildhauer der griechischen Kunst, Ausstellung im Liebieghaus, Museum alter Plastik (Frankfurt,1990: 513, NO.10 (PART OF A) Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Hommes et Dieux de la Grece Antique (1.10-2.12.1982): 237, NO.151 Chatzidimitriou, A., Parastaseis Ergasterion kai Emporiou stin Eikonographia ton Archaikon kai Klasikon Chronon (Athens, 2005): PL.9.K37 (A, B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: KARLSRUHE, BADISCHES LANDESMUSEUM 3, 53,54,55, FIG.9, PL.(2969) 24.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates Das Altertum: 27 (1981), 74, FIG.5 (A) Distler, S.A., Bauern und Banausen, Darstellungen des Handwerks und der Landwirtschaft in der griechischen Vasenmalerei (Wiesbaden, 2022): PL.4.1-2 (A, B) Ebertshäuser, H. and Waltz, M., Vasen - Bronzen - Terrakotten des klassischen Altertums (Munich, 1981): 95, FIG.112 (PART OF A) Fellmuth, N. et al., Der Jenaer Maler, Eine Töpferwerkstatt im klassischen Athen (Wiesbaden, 1996): 11, FIG.8 (B) Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 120, FIGS.14A-B (A, B) Gillis, A.C. (ed.), Corps, travail et statut social. L'apport de la paleoanthropologie funeraire aux sciences historiques (Lille, 2014): 82, FIG.21 (A1) Godde, S. and Heinze, T. (eds.), Skenika, Beiträge zum antiken Theater und seiner Rezeption, Festschrift Horst-Dieter Blume (Darmstadt, 2000): PL.3.7 (B1) Gymnasium: 102 (1995) PL.7.1-2 (A, B) Hasaki, E., Potters at Work in Ancient Corinth, Industry, Religion, and the Penteskouphia Pinakes, Hesperia Supplement 51 (Princeton, 2021): 200, FIG.5.8 (AB1, DRAWINGS OF AB1) Hedreen, G., The Image of the Artist in Archaic and Classical Greece, Art, Poetry, and Subjectivity (Cambridge, 2016): 226-227, FIGS.45-46 (A, B) Himmelmann, N., Archäologisches zum Problem der Sklaverei (Mainz, 1971): 37, FIG.40 (LIP, A) Himmelmann, N., Herrscher und Athlet, die Bronzen vom Quirinal (Milan, 1989): 47, FIG.11 (A) Himmelmann, N., Minima Archeologica, Utopie und Wirklichkeit der Antike (Mainz, 1996): 48, FIG.18 (A1) Himmelmann, N., Realistische Themen in der griechischen Kunst der archaischen und klassischen Zeit, JdI Erganzungsheft 28 (Berlin, 1994): 24, FIG.10 (A1) Hornbostel, W., Aus der Glanzzeit Athens, Meisterwerke Griechischer Vasenkunst in Privatbesitz (Hamburg, 1986): 12 (A, B, PARTS) Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 26 (2011) 6, FIGS.4A-B (COLOUR OF A1 AND B1) Johansen, F., Greece in the Archaic Period, Catalogue Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek (Copenhagen, 1994): 26-27, FIGS.14-14A (A, B) Kalcyk, H. et al. (eds.), Studien zur Alten Geschichte, Festschrift Siegfried Lauffer (Rome, 1986): 3, 795, FIG.2 (DRAWING) Lapatin, K. (ed.), Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Proceedings of a symposium held in connection with the exhibition The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006 (Los Angeles, 2008): 4, FIG.3 (B) Luxusgeschirr keltischer Fürsten, Griechische Keramik nördlich der Alpen, Sonderausstellung des Mainfränkischen Museums Würzburg (Würzburg, 1995): 35, FIG.9 (A1) Mee, C., Greek Archaeology, A Thematic Approach (Malden, 2011): 147, FIG.6.14 (DRAWING OF A AND B) Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 307, FIG.2, COLOUR PLATE 28 (A1, COLOUR OF A AND B) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 49, FIGS.2.2A-B (A, B) Papadopoulos, J.K., Ceramicus Redivivus, The Early Iron Age Potters' Field in the Area of the Classical Athenian Agora (Athens, 2003): 221, FIG.3.17 (A, B) Rieckhoff, S., Faszination Archäologie, Bayern vor den Römern (Regensburg, 1990): 82, FIG.43 (A) Rivista di Archeologia: 14 (1990) 101, FIG.8 (DRAWING OF A1) Rivista di Archeologia: 19 (1995) DI CAPRIO FIGS.6-7 (AB1) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe (Munich, 1983): 80-83, 86, FIGS.68, 71 (B, PART OF A) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 80, 83, FIGS.68, 71 (A, B) Settis, S. (ed.), I Greci, Storia Cultura Arte Societa 2, Una storia greca, 1.Formazione (Turin, 1996): 800, FIG.16 (A1) Stutzinger, D., Griechen, Etrusker und Römer, Eine Kulturgeschichte der Antiken Welt im Spiegel der Sammlungen des Archäologischen Museums Frankfurt (Regensburg, 2012): 106, FIG.110 (A1) Thimme, J., Griechische Vasen - eine Auswahl aus den Sammlungen des Badischen Landesmuseums (1975): FIG.18 (B) Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 59, FIGS.6.7A-C (A, B) Wege zur Klassik, Führer Badisches Landesmuseum (Karlsruhe, 1985): 118-19, FIG.87 (A, B) Workshop di archeologia classica. Paesaggi, costruzioni, reperti: 6 (2009) 55, FIG.3 (PART OF A1) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art, Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 82, FIG.8 (B1) Ziomecki, J., Les representations d'artisans sur les vases attiques (Warsaw, 1975): 24-25, FIGS.2-3 (A, B)
CAVI Lemma: BF lip cup. Unattributed; Manner of Centaur Painter. Tleson, potter{1}. Third
quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: Lip: A: potter at the wheel forming a vase, with a seated boy turning the
wheel. B: potter with a formed cup on the wheel, with a youth (customer or
owner?) facing him.
CAVI Inscriptions: Handle zone: nonsense: partly imitation letters: A: starting a bit to left of
scene: ϝυ(υ)(.)(.)(.)(.)υ(α)υ(ο)ν(.)(.)υ(.)υ. B: well centered:
ε(π)ν(.)σ(.)υ(σ)(ο)υχλλ(σ)νσ{2}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Metzler. {2} the ph. in the Bea. Arch. shows only a part. Kunst der
Schale, fig. 6.7a shows the whole inscription on A, but small: it begins with a
large epsilon: εον ... (plus 8 imitation blobs) ... λλλοσ. 16 letters in all.
The fourth letter an `Argive' lambda?
CAVI Comments: Thick and indistinct letters, clearer on B than on A. Uncertain readings.
Metzler thought the inscriptions written by an illiterate.
CAVI Number: 4061
AVI Bibliography: BADB 355 (vast bibl.). — Photo (in color, of the center of A) in Beazley
Archive. — Metzler (1969), 138-52, figs. 1-4. — Ziomecki (1975), 24-25, figs.
2-3 (A, B). — Tiverios (1981b), title page. — Scheibler (1983), 80, fig. 68
(detail of B) and 83, fig. 71 (A). — Hornbostel (1986), 12 (A, B, parts). —
Maass (1988), 170, pl. 92. — C. Weiss, CVA Karlsruhe 3, Germany 60 (1990), pl.
24. — Vierneisel–Kaeser (1990), 59, figs. 6.7a-c (A and details of A and B).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
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