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213766, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1867,0508.1150
- Vase Number: 213766
- Fabric: ATHENIAN
- Technique: RED-FIGURE
- Shape Name: PELIKE
- Provenance: ITALY, NOLA
- Date: -475 TO -425
- Inscriptions: Kalos/Kale: PERSES KALOS
PERSES - Attributed To: Recalls EPIMEDES P by BEAZLEY
POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY - Decoration: A: PERSEUS IN WINGED CAP AND BOOTS WITH SICKLE AND BASKET WITH HEAD OF MEDUSA
B: MEDUSA FALLING - Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E399
- Previous Collections:
- Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1060.136
Jameson, M. (ed.), Cults and Rites in Ancient Greece. Essays on Religion and Society (Cambridge, 2014): 33, FIG.2.7 (A)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.296, PERSEUS 141 (A) - AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4755
- AVI Record Number: 4583
- LIMC ID: 9806
- LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-742E76A3C5232-1
- British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1867-0508-1150
- CAVI Collection: LONDON E 399.
- CAVI Lemma: RF PELIKE. FROM NOLA. GROUP OF POLYGNOTOS. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH.
- CAVI Subject: A: PERSEUS FLEEING WITH THE HEAD OF MEDUSA. B: MEDUSA DYING.
- CAVI Inscriptions: A: IN FRONT OF MEDUSA'S HEAD, A TWO-LINER: Περσε̅́ς | καλος{1}.
- CAVI Footnotes: {1} Περσε̅́ς FOR Περσευς. C. SMITH PRINTS THIS AS A CENTERED NEAR-STOICH.
TWO-LINER: . . . . . . . . . ..
- CAVI Comments: A SMALL VASE. RECALLS THE EPIMEDES PAINTER (BEAZLEY). MIXED ALPHABET?
- CAVI Number: 4583
- AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), NO. 7873. — C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 253 (NOT ILL.).
— BEAZLEY (1941), 596 (NOT ILL.). — ARV[2] (1963), 1060/136. — MATHESON (1995),
477/PGU158 (NOT ILL.).
- 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/432981
- Coordinates: 40.930481,14.52847
- Pleiades Coordinates: 40.926823,14.524545
Last updated 15/12/2025 05:15:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.
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