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213234, ATHENIAN, Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 1773

  • Vase Number: 213234
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: SKYPHOS
  • Provenance: ITALY, ORVIETO
  • Date: -475 TO -425
  • Inscriptions: Named: N[YN]PHE, [THE]SEUS
  • Attributed To: LEWIS P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: WOMEN AND YOUTHS OR CHILDREN (ARIADNE WITH THE SONS OF THESEUS AND NYMPH ?)
    B: THESEUS (NAMED), DRAPED, WITH PETASOS AND SPEARS, ATHENA WITH LAUREL SPRIG
  • Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 1773
  • Publication Record: Batino, S., Lo skyphos attico dall'iconografia alla funzione (Naples, 2002): 470, FIGS.44.1-2 (A, B)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 972.2
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 149.5
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 435
    Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): E, PL.12.2
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 151
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 309
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: WIEN, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 1, 31-32, PL.(39) 39.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.667, THESEUS 312 (B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.610, OINOPION 2 (A)
    Neils, J. and Oakley, J.H. (eds.), Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, Images of Childhood from the Classical Past (New Haven, 2003): 95, FIGS.11A-B (A, B)
    Neils, J., The Youthful Deeds of Theseus (Rome, 1987): FIG.69 (B)
    Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 169, FIG.177 (A)
    Schefold, K. and Jung, F., Die Urkönige, Perseus, Bellerophon, Herakles und Theseus in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1988): 291, FIG.342 (A)
    Smith, H.R.W., Der Lewismaler (Mainz, 1974): PLS.2A-B, 30C (A, B, HANDLE AND PART OF I)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=8218
  • AVI Record Number: 7926
  • LIMC ID: 4725
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-73E685EF2E9EA-C
  • CAVI Collection: VIENNA, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 1773.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF SKYPHOS. FROM ORVIETO. LEWIS PAINTER. 480-470. EARLIEST (SMITH){1}.
  • CAVI Subject: A: ARIADNE(2) HANDING TWO CHILDREN BY THESEUS TO A NYMPH. B: THESEUS LOOKING BACK BUT MOVING TOWARD ATHENA WHO OFFERS HIM A BRANCH.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: ν[υ][ν]φε, RETR. B: [Θε]σευς{3}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} HE DATES THE VASE 479-475. {2} SMITH; HE CITES KLEIN IN AA 1892 173/194, WHO SAYS THE CHILDREN ARE OINOPION AND STAPHYLOS; THIS WOULD CONNECT OINOPION WITH THESEUS. SMITH REVERSES A AND B. {3} SMITH'S READING.
  • CAVI Comments: THE CHILDREN ARE DEMOPHON AND AKAMAS, ACCORDING TO ROBERTSON [SEE LIMC].
  • CAVI Number: 7926
  • AVI Bibliography: SMITH (1939), 12/2, PLS. 2 AND 30,C. — F. EICHLER, CVA VIENNA 1, AUSTRIA 1 (1951), PL. 39,1-2. — ARV[2] (1963), 972/2. — PARA. (1971), 435. — LIMC I (1981), PL. 336, AKAMAS ET DEMOPHON 1 (A). — ADD.[2] (1989), 309. — ROBERTSON (1992), 168-69 AND FIG. 177 (A).
  • 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/639959859
  • Coordinates: 42.718642,12.114315
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.7225286,12.1198882
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