Attributed To: BIRTH OF ATHENA, P OF THE by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: POSEIDON PURSUING AMYMONE, WITH HYDRIA, WOMEN (APHRODITE ?, DANAID ?), DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE (DANAOS) B: ZEUS ? (NAMED POSEIDON), PURSUING WOMAN (NAMED AMYMONE), WOMEN, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 20847
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 494.3 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 305.3 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 122 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 250 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: ROMA, MUSEO NAZIONALE ETRUSCO DI VILLA GIULIA 4, 34,35,36, FIG.14, PLS.(2898,2899) 31.1-2, 32.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. From Cerveteri. Painter of Birth of Athena. Second quarter fifth.
450-440 (?).
CAVI Subject: A: Poseidon and Amymone. B: Zeus pursuing a woman.
CAVI Inscriptions: In the same position as on 20,846: A: [Αφ]ρ̣οδιτε. Ποσειδων. Αμυμωνε, retr.
B: Ποσειδων. Αμυμωνε, retr. Under the foot, Dip.: ligature ΑΜ [[lig.]]{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} Johnston (1979), 244/8E n. 4 speaks of an Etruscan graffito on this vase.
[I do not have this Gr.; cf. however 20,747?]
CAVI Comments: There is confusion in the literature with Villa Giulia 20,846, a replica. I
saw no dotted deltas. The facss. in CVA are very poor. Mixed alphabet.
