220603, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1887,0801.46

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Vase Number: 220603
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: RED-FIGURE
Sub Technique: ADDED COLOUR
Shape Name: LEKYTHOS, SQUAT
Provenance: CYPRUS, MARION
Date: -450 to -400
Inscriptions: Named: AINEAS, ATHENA, OIDIPOS, APOLLON, KASTOR, POLYDEUKES
Attributed To: Manner of MEIDIAS P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Body: OEDIPUS KILLING THE SPHINX, APOLLO SEATED WITH LAUREL STAFF, ATHENA, DEVICE, LAUREL WREATH, YOUTHS WITH SPEARS, ONE SEATED, SOME IN BOOTS, ONE IN CHLAMYS, ALL NAMED, AINEIAS, KASTOR, POLYDEUKES
Current Collection: London, British Museum: E696
Previous Collections:
- London, British Museum: 1887,0801.46 (View on British Museum site)
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1325.49
Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 461.21
Benndorf, O., Griechische und sicilische Vasenbilder (Berlin, 1883): 1889, PL.9.9
Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.303
Burn, L., The Meidias Painter (Oxford, 1987): PL.32
Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 364
Journal of Hellenic Studies: 8 (1887) PL.81
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: SUPPLEMENTUM 1, PL.54, ATHENA ADD.64 (PART)
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.13, OIDIPOUS 77 (PART)
Padgett, J. M. (ed.), The Centaur's Smile: The Human Animal in Early Greek Art (Princeton, 2003): 83, FIG.9 (COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
Petit, T., Oedipe et le Cherubin, Les sphinx levantins, cypriotes et grecs comme gardiens d'Immortalite (Fribourg, 2011): FIG.182 (PART OF BD)
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4809
AVI Record Number: 4637
LIMC ID: 8330
LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7419a223c7bfd-e
British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1887-0801-46
CAVI Collection: London E 696.
CAVI Lemma: RF squat lekythos. From Marion (Cyprus). Manner of Meidias Painter. Late fifth.
CAVI Subject: In the center, Oedipus, before an Ionic column, slaying the sphinx; at left, Aeneas, a tree, and Athena; at right, higher, Apollo seated, Castor and Pollux.
CAVI Inscriptions: Most inscriptions above the heads: Αινεας. Αθηνα{1}. Οιδι^πος{2}. Beside Apollo's head: Απολλων. Καστωρ. Πολυδευκης.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} see Threatte (1980), 272. {2} on either side of the column. C. Smith wrongly read Οιδιπους (Beazley in AJA).
CAVI Comments: Oedipus slays the sphinx with his spear (an alternate version); Burn thinks the scene is atticized because of the presence of Athena, whence Oedipus is more militant, like Theseus.
CAVI Number: 4637
AVI Bibliography: C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 344-45. — Beazley (1950), 311 n. 2. — ARV[2] (1963), 1325/49. — Burn (1987), 47-48, 111/MM 78, pl. 32,a-c. — Add.[2] (1989), 364.
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/707574
Coordinates: 35.0375003814697,32.4333324432373
Pleiades Coordinates: 35.037245,32.436032

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