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205372, ATHENIAN, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, 16541

  • Vase Number: 205372
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -500 TO -450
  • Inscriptions: Inscription: KAI TRI[...
    Inscription: OIDIPODES
    Named: OIDIPODES
  • Attributed To: DOURIS by HARTWIG
    OEDIPUS P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: SATYRS, ONE WITH POINTED AMPHORA, ONE WITH SANDAL PUNISHING INFANT SATYR, ONE WITH WINESKIN, OINOCHOE
    B: KOMOS, SATYRS, ONE WITH POINTED AMPHORA AND DRINKING HORN, ONE URINATING IN OINOCHOE, ONE IN DEER SKIN, ONE PLAYING PIPES, PIPESCASE
    I: OEDIPUS SEATED ON BLOCK (NAMED), THEBAN SPHINX ON COLUMN
  • Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 569
  • Previous Collections:
    • Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 16541
  • Publication Record: Albini, U., Il teatro Greco, Archeo Dossier 23: 46 (COLOUR OF I)
    American Journal of Archaeology: 122 (2018) 403, 405 FIGS.5-6 (A, PART OF A, DRAWING OF PART OF A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 451.1
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 205.77, 474
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 376
    Boardman, J., The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity (London, 1994): 266, FIGS.7.41A-B (A, B)
    Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 196, FIG.212 (I)
    Bulletin, Yale University Art Gallery: (2017) 107, FIG.5 (COLOUR OF I)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 119
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.264 (I)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 242
    Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 301, FIG.2 (I)
    Clark, A.J. and Gaunt, J. (eds.), Essays in Honor of Dietrich von Bothmer, Allard Pierson Series 14 (Amsterdam, 2002): PL.21D (B)
    Das Altertum: 39 (1994) 4, 247, FIG.7 (DRAWING OF I)
    Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 112, FIG.88 (I)
    Grandjean, C., Hugoniot, C., and Lion, B. (eds.), Le banquet du monarque dans le monde antique (Rennes and Tours, 2013): 412, FIG.5B (DRAWING OF PART OF A)
    Hartwig, P., Die griechischen Meisterschalen (Stuttgart, 1893): PL.73
    Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 246-247, FIG.152 (A AND B)
    Junker, K., Griechische Mythenbilder, Eine Einführung in ihre Interpretation (Stuttgart, 2005): 32, FIG.6 (I)
    Junker, K., Interpreting the Images of Greek Myths, An Introduction (Cambridge, 2012): 23, FIG.8 (I)
    Keuls, E.C., Painter and Poet in Ancient Greece, Iconography and the Literary Arts (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1997): 402, FIG.54 (I)
    Kurke, L., Aesopic Conversations, Popular Tradition, Cultural Dialogue, and the Invention of Greek Prose (Princeton and Oxford, 2011): 227, FIG.5.2 (I)
    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): 46, FIG.26 (I)
    Les mythes fondateurs à la Petite Galerie du Louvre, Dossiers d'Archéologie: 372, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2015, 32 BOTTOM (COLOUR OF I)
    Lissarrague, F., La cite des satyres. Une anthropologie ludique (Athenes, VIe-Ve siecle avant J.-C.) (Paris, 2013): 69, FIG.43 (A AND B)
    Minerva, International Review of Ancient Art and Archaeology: 9 (1998) 2, 8, FIGS.1C-D (A, B)
    Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 106 (1991) 61, FIG.7 (DRAWING OF I)
    Moret, J.-M., Oedipe, la Sphinx et les Thebains (Rome, 1984): PLS.50-51.1
    Morford, M. et al., Classical Mythology, International Ninth Edition (Oxford, 2011): 411 (I)
    Museum Etruscum Gregoriam (Rome, 1842): II, PL.80.1
    Norskov, V. et al. (eds.), The World of Greek Vases (Rome, 2009): 195, FIG.1 (B)
    Petit, T., Oedipe et le Cherubin, Les sphinx levantins, cypriotes et grecs comme gardiens d'Immortalite (Fribourg, 2011): FIGS.1-2 (I, A, B)
    Schefold, K., Jung, F., Die Sagen von den Argonauten, von Theben und Troia in der klassischen und hellenistischen Kunst (Munich, 1989): 64, FIG.44 (I)
    Vlassopoulos, K., Greeks and Barbarians (Cambridge, 2013): 239, FIG.30B (A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=7265
  • AVI Record Number: 7010
  • LIMC ID: 7648
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-740FFF5AF4B53-2
  • CAVI Collection: ROME, VATICAN 16,541.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF CUP. FROM VULCI. OEDIPUS PAINTER{1}. PYTHON, POTTER. FIRST QUARTER FIFTH.
  • CAVI Subject: INT.: OEDIPUS AND THE SPHINX. A-B: SATYRS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: TO THE UPPER RIGHT OF OEDIPUS' HEAD, ENDING OVER THE SPHINX'S HEAD: Οιδιποδες. TO LEFT OF THE SPHINX' MOUTH: [κ]αι τρι[], RETR.{2}. R. GUY TELLS ME THAT ON THE EXTERIOR ARE INSCRIPTIONS IN THE PRELIMINARY SKETCH WHICH WERE NOT COPIED ON THE GLAZE.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} CLOSE TO LATE DOURIS. {2} THERE IS ROOM FOR ONLY ONE LETTER BEFORE THE FACE OF OEDIPUS; HENCE τρι[α].
  • CAVI Comments: OEDIPUS' MOUTH IS SLIGHTLY OPEN. FOR THE WORDS OF THE SPHINX SEE BEAZLEY IN AJA. AN ETRUSCAN CUP, PARIS, MUSéE RODIN 980, COPIES THE EXTERIOR OF THIS CUP; SEE ARV[2]. HOFFMANN (1997), 80-82, FIG. 41 (DR. [PROBABLY AFTER HARTWIG]). H. SPECULATES MUCH ON A SECONDARY MEANING OF `τρια' AS SPOKEN BY THE SPHINX.
  • CAVI Number: 7010
  • AVI Bibliography: PHOTO (INT.). — HARTWIG (1893), PL. 73. — BEAZLEY (1927A), 349 (NOT ILL.). — ARV[2] (1963), 451/1, 1654. — PARA. (1971), 376. — ADD.[2] (1989), 242 (MUCH BIBL. IN ALL REFF.). — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 1174.
  • 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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