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217212, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1847,0909.6

  • Vase Number: 217212
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -450 to -400
  • Inscriptions: Named: ARES, APHRODITE, DIONYSOS, ARIADNE, KOMOS
    Named: PLOUTON, PHERREPHATTA
    Named: POSEIDON, AMPHITRITE, ZEUS, HERA, [GA]NYMEDES
  • Attributed To: CODRUS P by SMITH
  • Decoration: A: SYMPOSIUM, ZEUS AND POSEIDON, BOTH RECLINING WITH PHIALAI, HERA AND AMPHITRITE WITH ALABASTRON AND ROD, BOTH SEATED ON KLINAI, GANYMEDE WITH STRAINER (ALL NAMED), TABLES, COLUMN
    B: SYMPOSIUM, DIONYSOS WITH PHIALE AND THYRSOS, ARES WITH SPEAR, BOTH RECLINING, ARIADNE SEATED ON KLINE, APHRODITE WITH KANTHAROS (ALL NAMED), SATYR (NAMED, KOMOS) TABLES
    I: SYMPOSIUM, HADES RECLINING WITH PHIALE AND CORNUCOPIA, PERSEPHONE SEATED ON KLINE WITH POMEGRANATE (?), TABLE
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: 1847.9-9.6
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Algrain, I., L'alabastre attique. Origine, forme et usages (Brussels, 2014): 155, FIG.96 (COLOUR OF A)
    American Journal of Archaeology: 82 (1978) 365-6, FIGS.15-17 (A, B, I)
    Arafat, K., Classical Zeus, A Study in Art and Literature (Oxford, 1990): PL.29 (A,B)
    Avramidou, A., The Codrus Painter, Iconography and reception of Athenian vases in the age of Pericles (Madison, 2011): 8-9, 15, 112-113, FIGS.2.4-2.6, 2.15, PL.10A-C (A, B, I, PART, DRAWING OF UH)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1269.3
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 425.5
    Bemmann, K., Füllhörner in klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit (Frankfurt, 1994): 308, FIG.10 (I)
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.239 (I)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 356
    Cohen, A. and Rutter, J.B. (eds.), Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy, Hesperia Supplement 41 (Princeton, 2007): 157, FIG.8.3 (B)
    Dickmann, J-A. and Heinemann, A., Vom Trinken und Bechern, Das antike Gelage im Umbruch (Freiburg, 2015): 21, FIG.4 (COLOUR OF A)
    Dugas, C., Aison et la peinture ceramique a Athenes a l'epoque de Pericles (Paris, 1930): 29, FIG.6 (A, B)
    Filser, W., Die Elite Athens auf der attischen Luxuskeramik, Image & Context 16 (Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2017): 273-274, FIGS.133A-C (A, B, I)
    Fraser, J., Luxury and power, Persia to Greece, British Museum (London, 2023): 144, FIG.139 (COLOUROF A)
    Jacobsthal, P., Theseus auf dem meeresgrunde. Ein beitrag zur geschichte der griechischen malerei (Leipzig, 1911): PL.5, FIG.9, PL.6 (A, B)
    Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 120 (2005) 258, FIG.44 (A, B)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.212, HADES 44 (I)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.44, KOMOS 11 (B)
    Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): V, PL.49
    Morard, T., Horizontalite et Verticalite, Le bandeau humain et le bandeau divin chez le Peintre de Darius (Mainz, 2009): PL.68.2 (A, B)
    Murray, A.S., Designs from Greek vases in the British Museum (London, 1894): FIG.60 (I)
    Murray, O. and Tecusan, M. (eds.), In Vino Veritas (London, 1995): 146-148, FIGS.1-3 (I, A, B)
    Pearson, M.P. and Richards, C., Architecture and Order, Approaches to Social Space (London, 1994): 109, FIG.5.3 (DRAWING OF I, A, B)
    Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 220, FIG.227 (A)
    Schlesier, R. (ed.), A Different God? Dionysos and Ancient Polytheism (Berlin and Boston, 2011): PLS.15-16 (A, B, AND COLOUR OF I)
    Schlesier, R. and Schwarzmaier, A. (eds.), Dionysos, Verwandlung und Ekstase (Berlin, 2008): 79, FIG.9 (B)
    Siftar, L., Das Phänomen der unvollständigen Gestalt in der griechischen Kunst, Unterschiedliche Facetten eines besonderen Darstellungsmittels (Heidelberg, 2018): 191, FIG.10.16 (I, A)
    Smith, T.J. and Plantzos, D. (eds.), A Companion to Greek Art (Malden, 2012): II, 403, FIG.20.1 (A)
    Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum: II, PL.44, GR6 (A)
    Wolf, W-P., Xenokles und die zänkischen Götter Eine ikonographische Neubewertung der Kleinmeisterschale des Xenokles im Londoner British Museum (2024): 23, FIG.4 (DRAWING OF I)
    del Corral Corredoira, P.D., Y Dioniso desposó a la rubia Ariadna, estudio iconográfico de la cerámica ática (575-300 a.C.) (Oxford, 2007): 171, FIGS.91-91B (A, B)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4656
  • AVI Record Number: 4484
  • LIMC ID: 7271
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-740aa2e2dd7c0-6
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1847-0909-6
  • CAVI Collection: London E 82.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Vulci. Kadmos Painter. Third quarter fifth. Ca. 430.
  • CAVI Subject: Banquest of the gods: Int.: Pluto and Persephone: woman seated to right on a couch on which reclines a bearded man with a phiale, to left. A-B: other divinities.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: horizontally above heads: Int.: Πλουτων. Φερρεφαττα. A: Ποσειδων. Αμφιτριτη. Ζευς. hερα. [Γα]νυμεδες. B: Αρες. Αφροδιτε. Διονυσος. Αριαδνε. Κωμος (satyr).
  • CAVI Comments: Readings and letter forms from the BM Cat. Near Ionic (mixed alphabet). Dotted alpha?
  • CAVI Number: 4484
  • AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 8348. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 108-109 (not ill.). — H. Metzger (1944–5), 318, fig. 8 (ph. after Farnell, Cults iii, pl. 8,a (Int.); letters very clear). — ARV[2] (1963), 1269/3. — [[delete]]. — Add.[2] (1989), 356. — AttScr (1990), no. 787. — Kossatz-Deissmann (1991), 159 (Komos 15). — Robertson (1992), 220, fig. 227 (A). — Carpenter (1995), 145ff., figs. 1-3 (discussion).
  • 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/413393
  • Coordinates: 42.421429,11.702499
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.419009,11.6298975
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