Decoration: A: GIGANTOMACHY, ZEUS MOUNTING CHARIOT WITH HERAKLES, GE, ATHENA, POSEIDON WITH ROCK (NISYROS), ARTEMIS (NAMED), DIONYSOS, AND GIANTS, ONE FALLEN, SOME NAMED (EURYMEDON ?), LION, PANTHER, DOG, DEVICE, WHIRLIGIG, INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.2134
Publication Record: Archeologia Classica: 58 (2007) 38, FIG.3 (DRAWING) Archäologischer Anzeiger: (1991) 1, 20, FIGS.8-9 (DRAWING) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 347 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 94 Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): PL.48 Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.118, GIGANTES 106 Lomas, K. (eds.), Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean, Papers in Honour of Brian Shefton (Leiden and Boston, 2004): 217, 219, 222, FIGS.3A-C Meyer, M., Athena, Göttin von Athen. Kult und Mythos auf der Akropolis bis in klassische Zeit, Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 16 (Vienna, 2017): 607, FIGS.199-200 Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 86, FIG.36 (PARTS) Robinson, D., and Wilson, A. (eds.), Alexandria and the North-Western Delta, Joint Conference Proceedings of Alexandria, City and Harbour (Oxford 2004) and The Trade and Topography of Egypt's North-West Delta, 8th century BC to 8th century AD (Berlin 2006) (Oxford, 2010): 27, FIG.3.1 (DRAWING OF PART) Torelli, M., Semainein, Significare, Scritti vari di ermeneutica archeologica, a cura di Angela Sciarma (Pisa and Rome, 2012): 382, FIG.3A-C Tsiphaki, D. et al., AtticPOT, Attic painted pottery in ancient Thrace (6th – 4th century BC). New approaches and digital tools (Xanthi, 2022): 19, FIG.2 (DRAWING)
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF kantharos. From Athens. Unattributed. Second quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A-B: Gigantomachy: fr. a: Ge; Zeus and Heracles; Athena; fallen giant. Frs. b
+ c: foot; female leg; giant facing Artemis; shield; male feet; other legs; two
large bags. Fr. d: goddess; Poseidon; giant assaulted by animals{1}.
CAVI Inscriptions: A-B(?): fr. a: below the scene, Gr.: [ο δεινα ανεθεκε]ν : Αθαναιαι : αυτος
ποι[εσας]{2}. Frs. b + c (not joining): to right of female leg: Αρτεμις. To
right of shield: Εφ[ιαλτ]ες, retr(?){3}. Fr. d: under belly and between legs of
mounting animal: [Ευρυ]μεδον, retr.{4}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} frs. e-h have only ornament. {2} punctuation in form of two superimposed
chevrons. For the restoration see Kretschmer (1894), 229; Hartwig (1896); Karo
(1910), 176 (who thinks the vase painted by a foreign immigrant, because of the
alpha in Athanaias and a theory about the bags, which are Hephaestus' bellows -
cf. Rhomaios. Eph. 1908, 247 ff.). {3} Graef–Langlotz does not restore. {4}
Hartwig. Cf. CB.
CAVI Comments: Frs. a - h. A potter's (or perhaps painter's) dedication.
CAVI Number: 1139
AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, 215/2134, pl. 94. — CB (1931–63), ii, 70
(mention). — ABV (1956), 347. — Add.[2] (1989), 94.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
