Decoration: A1: GIGANTOMACHY, ATHENA, FALLEN GIANTS, POSEIDON WITH ROCK, SHIELD DEVICE, LION AB2: CENTAUROMACHY, CENTAURS, SOME IN ANIMAL SKINS, WARRIORS, SHIELD DEVICE, LION, BULL, CENTAURS WITH ROCKS AND BRANCHES B1: THESEUS AND THE BULL, ATHENA, YOUTH SEATED ON BLOCK WITH SCEPTRE, DRAPED MAN WITH STAFF
Last Recorded Collection: Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire: R303
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 92 (1988), 379, FIG.7 (PART OF B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 249.6, 1639 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 165.5 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 160.5 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 350 Bentz, M. and Kästner, U. (eds.), Konservieren oder restaurieren, Die Restaurierung griechischer Vasen von der Antike bis heute, Beiheft zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland III (Munich, 2007): 77-79, 81, FIGS.1-4, 6, PLS.8, 9.1-2 (A, B, DRAWINGS OF PARTS AND PROFILE OF FOOT, COLOUR OF PART) Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.196 (A) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 101 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 203 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BRUSSELS, MUSEES ROYAUX DU CINQUANTENAIRE 1, III.I.C.3, PLS.(035,036) 8.8A, 8.8B, 8.8C, 8.8D, 9.9A, 9.9B View Whole CVA Plates DesVergers, N., L'Etrurie et les Etrusques (Paris, 1862-4): PLS.32-36 Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indegni, Volume Quarto, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi 14-19 maggio 2001 (Rome, 2007): 51, FIG.1 (B1) Laufer, E., Kaineus, Studien zur Ikonographie, RdA Supp.1 (Rome, 1985): PL.10, FIG.30 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.146, GIGANTES 335 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.657, THESEUS 190 (PART OF B) Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 50 (1925) PL.1 (A) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 484-485, FIG.351 (AB2) Neils, J., The Youthful Deeds of Theseus (Rome, 1987): FIG.35 (B1) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 141, FIG.144 (B) Schmidt, S. and Stähli, A. (eds.), Vasenbilder im Kulturtransfer, Zirkulation und Rezeption griechischer Keramik im Mittelmeerraum, Beiheft zum Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Deutschland V (Munich, 2012): 115, FIG.4 (B1) Servadei, C., La figura di Theseus nella ceramica Attica, Iconografia e iconologia del mito nell' Atene arcaica e classica (Bologna, 2005): 74, FIG.27 (B1)
Notes: Colour images copyright Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels (CC BY-SA.4)
CAVI Collection: Brussels, Musées Royaux R 303.
CAVI Lemma: RF pointed amphora. From Vulci. Syleus Painter{1}. First quarter fifth.
CAVI Subject: Upper zone: A: Gigantomachy (Athena and Poseidon against giants). B: Theseus
and the bull. Lower zone: A-B: Battle of Lapiths and Centaurs.
CAVI Inscriptions: Upper zone: B: behind Theseus' back: Θεσευς. To left of a man with a scepter,
retr.: Π(ο)(σ)ειδον{2}. Lower zone: A-B: above the second centaur from the left
(who is modern!): Κ[...]σο{3}. Above the fourth Lapith's shield: traces of an
inscription. Above the fifth Lapith's shield, retr.: υπιν{3}. Above the ninth
Lapith's shield: καλο[ς].
CAVI Footnotes: {1} according to Robertson, Robertson (1992), close to Copenhagen and
Syriskos Painters (see R. on this group of painters). {2} the text of CVA has
(retr.): Πανειδον. Not visible in the CVA photo. {3} so CVA, text. Nonsense?
CAVI Comments: Much restored, especially the centauromachy, see Gymn. 70, 343, n. 8. The
lettering sloppy and variable, some letters disjointed. CVA's readings are not
very trustworthy.
CAVI Number: 2932
AVI Bibliography: F. Mayence, CVA Brussels 1, Belgium 1 (1926), III I c, pls. 8-9. — ARV[2]
(1963), 249/6 (bibl.), 1639. — Para. (1971), 350. — Harrison (1979), 73 and n.
8. — Add.[2] (1989), 203. — Robertson (1992), 140, fig. 144 (mention).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
