Attributed To: DOURIS by SIGNATURE PYTHON by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A,B: WARRIORS ARMING, DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE, WOMAN WITH SHIELD AND SWORD, COLUMN, HELMETS, SHIELDS (SEVEN AGAINST THEBES ?) I: WARRIOR DEPARTING, PHIALE, WOMAN WITH OINOCHOE, SHIELD
Last Recorded Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum: 3694
Previous Collections:
Vienna, Österreichisches Museum: 324
Publication Record: Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 172 (JUNE 1999) 47 (COLOUR OF A, B, AND I) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1569 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 427.3, 1652 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 200.9, 473 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 374 Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): VII, PL.1 Berger, E. (ed.), Parthenon-Kongress Basel, Referate und Berichte, 4. bis 8. April 1982, II (Mainz, 1984): PL.4.2 (A, B) Brinkmann, V., Beobachtungen zum formalen Aufbau und zum Sinngehalt der Friese des Siphnierschatzhauses (Ennepetal, 1994): 62, 66 (DRAWINGS OF PARTS OF A) Buitron-Oliver, D., Douris, A Master-Painter of Athenian Red-Figure Vases (Mainz, 1995): PLS.6-7, 143, NO.11 (I, A, B) Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 116 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 235 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: WIEN, KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM 1, 14-15, PLS.(9,10) 9.1-2, 10.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates Ducrey, P., Guerre et Guerriers dans la Grece Antique (Paris, 1985): 49, FIG.25 Ellinghaus, C., Die Parthenonskulpturen, Der Bauschmuck eines öffentlichen Monumentes der demokratischen Gesellschaft Athens zur Zeit des Perikles, Techniken in der bildenden Kunst zur Tradierung von Aussagen (Hamburg, 2011): FIGS.163-164 (A, B) Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): PL.53 (A, B, I) Greek Vases in the J.Paul Getty Museum: 4 (1989) 122-123, FIGS.3A-B (A, B) Hoppin, A., A handbook of Attic red-figured vases signed by or attributed to the various masters of the sixth and fifth centuries B.C. (Cambridge, 1919): I, 266-7 Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 32, FIG.10 (I) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.543, SEPTEM 37 (A) Lichtenberger, A. et al. (eds.), Das Diadem der Hellenistischen Herrscher. Ubernahme, Transformation oder Neuschopfung eines Herrschaftszeichens? (Bonn, 2012): 240, FIGS.17-18 (A, B) Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 102-103, FIGS.81-82 (COLOUR OF A, PART) Lücken, G. von, Griechische Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1921): PLS.100-101 (A, B) Meyer, M. and Adornato, G. (eds.), Innovations and Inventions in Athens c. 530 to 470 BCE, Two Crucial Generations. Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 18 (Vienna, 2020): FIGS.4.4-5, BACKCOVER (COLOUR OF A AND I) Oakley, J.H., A Guide to Scenes of Daily Life on Athenian Vases (Madison, 2020): 171, FIGS.8.5A-C (PARTS OF A, B) Pfuhl, E., Malerei und Zeichnung der Griechen (Munich, 1923): FIGS.455-6 (I, A) Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 143, FIG.124BIS (A)
CAVI Collection: Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum 3694.
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Cerveteri. Douris. Python, potter. First quarter fifth. Very
early (Beazley). Ca. 500 (Eichler).
CAVI Subject: Int.: a warrior leaving home, and a woman. Ext.: arming: A: seven warriors
and Athena; a column. B: seven warriors.
CAVI Inscriptions: Int.: to the right of the warrior's head, along the margin: Δορις εγραφσεν.
A: between the heads of three warriors at left, below the margin: hο παις
καλο[ς]. B: in similar position: [Χ]αι[ρεστρα]τος καλος. On the reserved foot
profile, in BG: Πυθον̣, retr.{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the nu is incomplete.
CAVI Comments: Ex Oest. Mus. 324. Early Douris: see AttScr. The earliest Douris signature.
Wegner (1968), 19 and 23, following Schefold suggests that the signatures
without the verb denote Python as owner of the workshop rather than as potter
[but see Blösch's attributions]. The subject of the Ext. could be the arming for
the expedition of the Seven against Thebes (B.-O.); Tiverios suggests the Seven
Against Thebes and Epigonoi. Attic with four-stroke sigma. Delta normal. Tailed
rho.
CAVI Number: 7950
AVI Bibliography: Masner (1892), 43-44 (not ill.). — Hartwig (1893), 216f. — FR (1904–32), i,
271-72, pl. 53. — Dinsmoor (1946), 106 and 116 (mentions; bibl.). — F. Eichler,
CVA Vienna 1, Austria 1 (1951), pls. 9-10 (bibl.). — ARV[2] (1963), 427/3, 425,
1652. — Para. (1971), 374. — Add.[2] (1989), 235. — AttScr (1990), no. 519. —
Buitron-Oliver (1995), 10-11, 56 and n. 56, 73/11, pls. 6-7 and 143.
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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