Decoration: A,B: NEREUS WITH SCEPTRE SEATED ON ROCK, NEREIDS WITH DOLPHIN, HARE AND WREATH, SOME NAMED
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: 3244
Previous Collections:
Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg: 3244
Publication Record: Barringer, J.M., Divine Escorts, Nereids in Archaic and Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 1995): PL.156 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1142 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 334 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIQUARIUM 3, 15-17, FIG.5, PLS.(1037,1045,1049) 108.5, 116.3-5, 120.4 View Whole CVA Plates Heilmeyer, W-D. et al., Antikenmuseum Berlin, Die ausgestellten Werke (Berlin, 1988): 152, NO.5 (A) Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 853, NO.503 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.341, PLOTO 1 (PART) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.434, PSAMATHE 6 (PART) Olmos, R. (ed.), Coloquio sobre el Puteal de la Moncloa, Estudios de Iconografia II (Madrid, 1986): 108, FIG.25 (DRAWING OF A)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup-skyphos. From Sorrento. Unattributed{1}. 430-420.
CAVI Subject: A: Nereus seated between two daughters: a Nereid at left, standing, lifts her
cloaked left hand; a Nereid at right, standing, holds out a dolphin. B: three
daughters: one seated receives a hare from another, who is followed by a third
with a wreath.
CAVI Inscriptions: Inscriptions horizontal, in white: A: to right of left Nereid's raised hand:
Ευλιμενη. To right of Nereus' face and the hand holding his scepter: Nερ[ε]υς.
Below right handle ornament, i.e. to right of second Nereid's feet: hιλιθυα{3}.
B: above left (seated) Nereid's head: Ψαμαθε{4}. To right of head of left-facing
Nereid offering hare: Πλωτω. Under right handle ornament, i.e. to right of feet
of left-facing Nereid with wreath: Θετις. This vase not signed.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} ARV[2]: "Of somewhat similar style [as Boston 99.539], but hardly by the
same hand, the vase [Berlin 3244] found with it". Boston 99.539 has the
signature of Xenotimos as potter and is listed as by the Xenotimos Painter as
his single work. Bea. Arch. says: compared to Xenotimos Painter by Beazley. {2}
CVA, fig. 5, a dr. from Antike Denkmäler, omits the signature of Xenotimos,
which Antike Denkmäler has [[fragmentarily, above Νερυς]]. {3} for the first
iota see Threatte (1980), 342. {4} see Threatte (1980), 121.
CAVI Comments: Berlin West. - Furtw., in AA, points out that the traces of a potter's
signature of Xenotimos (which appears on Boston 99.539, see below), shown above
the head of Nereus in Antike Denkmäler, are imaginary. Mixed alphabet.
CAVI Number: 2456
AVI Bibliography: BADB 215,140. — Fröhner (1888), no. 11. — Furtwängler (1893), 91/45 (not
ill.). — Hoppin (1919), ii, 478 (after Antike Denkmäler). — Neugebauer (1932),
109 (not ill.). — A. Greifenhagen, CVA Berlin 3, Germany 22 (1962), pls. 108,5,
116,3-5, 120,4, p. 16, fig. 5 (dr. of A and B after Antike Denkmäler, i, pl.
59,2; see note 2 below). — ARV[2] (1963), 1142. — LIMC iii (1986), pl. 540,
Eileithyia 86 (A). — Add.[2] (1989), 334.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
