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204364, ATHENIAN, Rome, market, Depoletti, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 98.933

  • Vase Number: 204364
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Sub Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, CERVETERI
  • Date: -500 TO -450
  • Inscriptions: Named: PHANAS, EMPEDION
    Named: PHANAS, EMPEDION, [HEK]TOR, ACHILLEU[S], ILION, [HEKA]BE, PRIAM[OS], [A]THENA[IA]
    PHANOS
  • Attributed To: FOUNDRY P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A,B: ACHILLES PURSUING HEKTOR, WARRIOR, ARCHER, PRIAM, WOMAN (HECUBA ?), BUILDING (GATES ?), SHIELD DEVICE, BOAR
    I: MEN, ONE SEATED ON BLOCK WITH SPEARS, ONE WITH SWORD, BOTH DRAPED AND NAMED
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 98.933
  • Previous Collections:
    • Rome, market, Depoletti
  • Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 23 (1980) PL.7.8 (A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 402.23
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 370
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 114
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.314 (A)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 231
    Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 105, FIG.81, 454, FIG.384 (A, B, I)
    Gerhard, E., Auserlesene Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1840-58): III, PL.203 (COLOUR OF A AND B)
    Hedreen, G., Capturing Troy, The Narrative Functions of Landscape in Archaic and Early Classical Greek Art (Ann Arbor, 2001): FIGS.40A-B (A, B)
    Knauer, E.R., A Red-Figure Kylix by the Foundry Painter, Observations on a Greek Realist, Indiana University Art Museum, Occ. Papers (1987): 13, FIGS.20-21 (A, PART OF A)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 829, 846, NOS.51, 336 (PARTS OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.114, ACHILLEUS 564 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.281, HEKABE 20 (PART)
    Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): 235, APP.131 (COLOUR OF B)
    Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 121, FIG.70 (A)
    Pollak, L., Zwei Vasen aus der Werkstatt Hierons (Leipzig, 1900): 22, PL.8 (DRAWING OF I, COLOUR DRAWING OF A AND B)
    Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 224, FIGS.201-202 (A, B)
    Schmidt, S. and Tsingarida, A. (eds.), Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Belgique, Supplément 1. The Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum 1922-2022, A Century of Exploring Greek Vases: Typologies, Readings and Debates (Contents), CVA Belgique (Brussels, 2024): 23, FIGS.7A-B (A, B)
    Studi Miscellanei: 14 (1968-69) PL.29, FIG.48 (I)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=2823
  • AVI Record Number: 2676
  • LIMC ID: 12575
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-7455C769C4C68-7
  • CAVI Collection: BOSTON 98.933.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. FROM CERVETERI. FOUNDRY PAINTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: INT.: AT LEFT, YOUTH WITH TWO SPEARS SEATED ON A ROCK. AT RIGHT, A BEARDED MAN WITH TWO SPEARS AND A SWORD FACING HIM. EXT.: ACHILLES PURSUING HECTOR AROUND THE WALLS OF TROY. A: HECTOR PURSUED BY ACHILLES; BF ARCHERS AT THE GATE. B: HECABE, PRIAM AND ATHENA BEHIND A TREE IN AMBUSH FOR HECTOR.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: ABOVE THE YOUTH'S HEAD: Φανας. ABOVE THE MAN'S HEAD: Εμπεδιον{1}. A: TO RIGHT OF HECTOR'S HEAD: [Hεκ]τορ. TO LEFT OF ACHILLES' FACE: Αχιλλευ[ς]. IN THE SPACES BETWEEN THE TWO BATTLEMENTS ABOVE THE SHIELDS: Ι̣λι̣ο̣ν. B: ABOVE AND TO RIGHT OF HECUBA'S HEAD: [Hεκα]βε. TO RIGHT OF PRIAM'S BODY: Πριαμ[ος]. BY ATHENA'S HEAD: [Α]θενα[ια].
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} CB: BOTH NAMES ARE KNOWN: PHANAS: PAUS. 4.17,9 (OLYMPIC VICTOR KILLED IN MESSENIAN WAR OF THE SEVENTH(?) CENTURY); EMPEDION: PA 4690-93 (FROM 5 B.C. ON), PAPE, S.V., MENTIONS ALSO A SELINUNTIAN (SEE DIOD. SIC. 13,59, TIME OF HANNIBAL) AND ANOTHER PERSON, RANGABé 2268,31. KRETSCHMER ACCENTUATES Φανᾶς; LGPN II LISTS AS Φαν[ε]ας(?). SEE ALSO IBID. UNDER Εμπεδιων. CB SAYS THE SCENE IS SIMILAR TO ONE OF TELEPHUS AND TEUTHRAS ON THE INT. OF THE CUP BOSTON 98.831, BUT HERE IS PROBABLY A GENRE SCENE (SEE POLLAK).
  • CAVI Comments: THE EXT. IS FRAGMENTARY. TAILED RHO.
  • CAVI Number: 2676
  • AVI Bibliography: KRETSCHMER (1894), 118 AND 186 N. 2. — POLLAK (1900), 22, PL. 8. — CB (1931–63), I, NO. 35, PL. 14. — ARV[2] (1963), 402/23. — PARA. (1971), 370. — ADD.[2] (1989), 231.
  • 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/422859
  • Coordinates: 41.992798,12.092428
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.0047755,12.10281885
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