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220528, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1856,1001.140

  • Vase Number: 220528
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: HYDRIA
  • Provenance: LIBYA, CYRENAICA
  • Date: -450 TO -400
  • Attributed To: ATHENS WEDDING, P OF THE by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body: HELEN SEATED ON CHAIR WITH EROS, WOMEN, SOME SEATED, SOME WITH TYMPANA, ONE WITH FAN, INCENSE BURNER
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E226
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1318.3
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM 6, III.I.C.8, PL.(370) 95.1A-C View Whole CVA Plates
    Fricke, B. (ed.), Holy Smoke, Censers Across Cultures (Chicago and Munich, 2023): 124, FIG.9 (PART)
    Ghali-Kahil, L., Les Enlevements et le retour d'Helene (Paris, 1955): PL.28.3
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.305, HELENE 78 (PART)
    Papanastasiou, A., Relations Between Redfigured and Black-glazed Vases in Athens of the 4th Century B.C., BAR International Series 1297 (Oxford, 2004): PL.67.1 (BD)
    Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 123, FIG.77 (PART)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=4705
  • AVI Record Number: 4533
  • LIMC ID: 12448
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-7453F69A86FAD-E
  • British Museum Link: HTTPS://WWW.BRITISHMUSEUM.ORG/COLLECTION/OBJECT/G_1856-1001-140
  • CAVI Collection: LONDON E 226.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF HYDRIA. FROM CYRENAICA. PAINTER OF ATHENS WEDDING (MEIDIAN). LATE FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: TOILET OF HELEN: AT LEFT, THREE WOMEN; IN THE CENTER, HELEN SEATED; POTHOS; AT RIGHT, FOUR WOMEN. BODY: A GROUP OF WOMEN (THREE ARE PRESERVED).
  • CAVI Inscriptions: SHOULDER: ABOVE THE CENTRAL FIGURE OF THE GROUP AT LEFT: καλη. - Ελενη. Ποθος. - ABOVE THE SECOND FROM THE LEFT OF THE GROUP AT RIGHT: καλη. ABOVE THE THIRD FROM LEFT: Κλεω.
  • CAVI Comments: HELEN'S HAIR IS BEING ARRANGED BY POTHOS.
  • CAVI Number: 4533
  • AVI Bibliography: C.H. SMITH IN BM CAT. E (1896), 178. — H.B. WALTERS, CVA LONDON 6, GREAT BRITAIN 8 (1931), III I C, PL. 95,1A-C. — ARV[2] (1963), 1318/3. — BURN (1987), 69, 102/AW 3. — SHAPIRO (1993), 244/59, 122, 123, FIG. 77.
  • 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/373777
  • Coordinates: 32.5492926759,21.6178163432
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 32.5492926759,21.6178163432
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