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216978, ATHENIAN, Paris, private, Duke of Luynes, Paris, Cabinet des Medailles, 732

  • Vase Number: 216978
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KANTHAROS
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, VULCI
  • Date: -450 TO -400
  • Inscriptions: EPIGENES
    Named: KYMOTHEA, OUKALYGON, THETIS, ANTILOCHOS, NESSTOR
    Signature: EPIGENES EPOSE
  • Attributed To: ERETRIA P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: PATROKLOS DEPARTING, WOMAN WITH OINOCHOE AND PHIALE, YOUTH WITH CHLAMYS, SPEARS AND PETASOS, OLD MAN (ALL NAMED)
    B: ACHILLES DEPARTING, WOMAN WITH PHIALE AND OINOCHOE, YOUTH WITH CHLAMYS, PETASOS AND SPEARS, DRAPED MAN WITH SCEPTRE (ALL NAMED)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Cabinet des Medailles: 851
  • Previous Collections:
    • Paris, private, Duke of Luynes: 732
  • Publication Record: Annali dell'Istituto di Correspondenza Archeologica: 1850, PLS.H-I
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1251.41 , 1688
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 430.10
    Benndorf, O., Wiener Vorlegeblätter für archäologische Übungen (Vienna, 1888-1890/91): B, PL.9.2
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 354
    Colonna, C., De rouge et de noir, Les vases grecs de la collection de Luynes (Paris, 2013): 69, NO.38 (COLOUR OF A AND 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, 299
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 827, NO.25 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.753, NESTOR 4 (PART OF A)
    Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): 25, FIG.4H RIGHT (DRAWING OF PART), 289, FIG.95A (PROFILE), 290, FIG.96B (DRAWING OF PART), PL.184, NO.285
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=6468
  • AVI Record Number: 6232
  • LIMC ID: 5993
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-73F87E7363E37-8
  • CAVI Collection: PARIS, CAB. MéD. 851.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF KANTHAROS. FROM VULCI. ERETRIA PAINTER. EPIGENES, POTTER. THIRD QUARTER FIFTH. 435-430 (LEZZI-HAFTER).
  • CAVI Subject: A: PATROCLUS AND ANTILOCHUS DEPARTING FROM NESTOR AND THETIS. B: ACHILLES AND UKALEGON DEPARTING FROM AGAMEMNON AND KYMOTHEA (A NEREID).
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: Nεσστ[ορ]. Αντ[ι]λοχος{1}. Πατροκλος{2}. BETWEEN PATROCLUS AND THETIS, AT MID-HEIGHT, A HORIZONTAL LEFT-ALIGNED NON-STOICH. TWO-LINER: Επιγενες | εποεσε{3}. (Θ)ετ[ις]{4}. [Αγ]αμ[ε]μνον{5}. B: TO RIGHT OF BACK OF HEAD: Αχιλλευς. SIMILAR: Κυμο(θ)εα{6}. [Ο]υκαλε[γ]ον{7}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO DE RIDDER'S TEXT; THE FACS. HAS Αντλοχος. L.-H. READS Αντιλοχος. {2} SO THE TEXT; Πατροκλς, FACS. {3} COMPLETE (BEAZLEY). PH. OF SIGNATURE: L.-H., ERET., PL. 184,B; DR.: FIG. 96,B. {4} THE THETA LACKS THE DOT IN THE FACS. Θετις, L.-H. {5} L.-H., ERET. 291 N. 566: RIDDER (1902), II, 502 SAYS THIS INSCRIPTION IS FALSE; L.-H. NOTES THAT IT IS IN PART ABOVE THE HEAD RATHER THAN BESIDE IT (AS ARE THE OTHER INSCRIPTIONS), BUT APPARENTLY SHE ACCEPTS IT. {6} THE THETA LACKS THE DOT IN THE FACS. FOR Κυματοθεα(?). {7} OUKALEGON IN ILIAD 3.146F. IS A WISE MAN (AN OLD TROJAN), WHICH HE IS HARDLY HERE (L.-H., WHO THINKS IT ODD HERE). υκαλεον, DE RIDDER WHO NOTES THE PREVIOUS RESTORATION [Ο]υκαλε[γ]ον (CF. IL. 3.148), BUT IS DOUBTFUL BECAUSE OF THE SPACING. CF. ALSO MALIBU L.87.AE.120, WHERE OUKALEGON IS A SATYR.
  • CAVI Comments: EX LUYNES AND BASSEGGIO. REGULAR DEPARTURE SCENES MADE MYTHOLOGICAL BY THE INSCRIPTIONS. RARE REPRESENTATIONS OF EVENTS BEFORE THE TROJAN WARS. THE READINGS ARE UNCERTAIN. MIXED ALPHABET: IONIC GAMMA AND LAMBDA; THREE- AND FOUR-STROKE SIGMA.
  • CAVI Number: 6232
  • AVI Bibliography: KRETSCHMER (1894), 75, 105, 174, 201. — DE RIDDER (1902), II, 501-502 (FACS.). — ARV[2] (1963), 1251/41, 1688. — BROMMER (1973), 340/B 1 AND 461/B 2. — BRANIGAN–VICKERS (1982), 65 (NESTOR). — LEZZI-HAFTER (1988), 25, FIG. 4,H (DETAIL, DR.), 290, FIG. 96,B (SIG.), 352/285, PL. 184 (TRACES OF INSCRIPTIONS). — ADD.[2] (1989), 354. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 792.
  • 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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