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)
