Attributed To: LYKAON P by BEAZLEY POLYGNOTOS, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A: WOMAN WITH OINOCHOE AND PHIALE (NAMED, KALLIOPE), DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF SEATED ON CHAIR COVERED WITH ANIMAL SKIN (NAMED, ANTIOCHOS), WARRIOR (NAMED, NEOPTOLEMOS) WITH SWORD AND SPEAR, YOUTH IN CHITON AND CHLAMYS WITH HELMET AND SHIELD B: WOMEN, ONE WITH TORCH, ONE WITH PHIALE, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 06.1021.116
Publication Record: Barringer, J.M. and Hurwit, J.M. (eds.), Periklean Athens and its Legacy (Austin 2005): 29, FIG.3.5 (A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1044.1 Beazley, J.D., Attic red-figured Vases in American Museums (Cambridge, 1918): 172 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 398.1 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 444 Burlington Magazine: 9 (1906) 208, FIG.5 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 156 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 320 Collection d'antiquites grecques et romaines, vente du 11 au 14 mai 1903: PL.3, FIGS.1, 3, PL.4 Himmelmann, N., Attische Grabreliefs, Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vortrage G 357 (1999): 76, FIG.38 (PART OF A) Matheson, S.B., Polygnotos and Vase Painting in Classical Athens (Madison, 1995): 88, PL.64 (A) McClees, H., The daily life of the Greeks and Romans as illustrated in the classical collections (New York, 1924): 23, 81 Mertens, J., How to read Greek vases (New York, 2010): 131-135 (COLOUR OF A, B AND PARTS) Picon, C.A., Mertens, J.R., et al., Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome (New York, 2007): 138, NO.154 (COLOUR OF A) Richter, G., Handbook of the Classical Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1917): 121 Sambon, A., Vases antiques de terre cuite, Collection Canessa(Paris, 1904): 30, PLS.6, 9 Shapes of Greek Vases (New York, 1922): 7.2 Thomsen, A., Die Wirkung der Götter, Bilder mit Flügelfiguren auf griechischen Vasen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Berlin and Boston, 2011): 191, FIG.82 (A) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens, 2009): 408, FIG.9 (A)
CAVI Lemma: RF amphora. Lykaon Painter. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 440 (Richter).
CAVI Subject: A: Neoptolemos Leaving Home: a woman with a phiale; a seated man clasping
Neoptolemos' hand; Neoptolemos; a youth. B: a stick between two women (holding
torch and phiale).
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of a woman's forehead (mother): Καλλιοπε. To right of man's
(father's) nose: Αντιοχος. Over Neoptolemos' head: Nε[ο]πτολεμος. Above the
youth's (friend's) head: Αντιμαχος. Under the foot, Gr.: ||. Slightly
differently in Johnston (1979).
CAVI Comments: Not mythological. For the name Neoptolemos in Athens, see LGPN ii, s.v., esp.
{11}. Kalliope is of course not the muse here. Mixed alphabet. Ionic lambda.
Three-stroke sigma.
CAVI Number: 5542
AVI Bibliography: Richter–Hall (1936), i, 163/130, pls. 128-29 and 169 (much bibl.). — ARV[2]
(1963), 1044/1. — Para. (1971), 444. — Johnston (1979), 105/19B 16. — Add.[2]
(1989), 320. — LIMC vi (1992), 76, Neoptolemos 14. — Matheson (1995), 87,
431/L1, pl. 64 (A).
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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