Attributed To: EXEKIAS by BEAZLEY EXEKIAS by SIGNATURE
Decoration: Rim: SHIP, INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: M446
Previous Collections:
Rome, Mus. Naz. Etrusco di Villa Giulia: 50599
Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 146.20, 686 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 61 Carratelli, G.P. (ed.), I Greci in Occidente (1996): 138 (COLOUR) Carratelli, G.P. (ed.), The Greek World, Art and Civilization in Magna Graecia and Sicily (New York and Milan, 1996): 138 (COLOUR) Mache, la battaglia del Mare Sardonio, catalogo della mostra, Oristano, Antiquarium Arborense, ottobre 1998-ottobre 1999 (Cagliari, 1999): 13, FIG.3 (COLOUR OF PART OF IR) Mackay, E.A., Tradition and Originality, A Study of Exekias (Oxford, 2010): PLS.52-54 (R, PARTS) Mercuri, L. and Fiorini, L. (eds.), Il mare che univa. Gravisca santuario mediterraneo (Rome, 2014): 71, FIG.7 (COLOUR) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 56, FIGS.9-10 (PARTS) Morais, R., Centeno, R., and Freitas Ferreira, D. (eds.), Myths, Gods and Heroes. Greek Vases in Portugal – Mitos, Deuses e Heróis. Vasos Gregos em Portugal (Porto, 2022): II, 103, FIG.5 (COLOUR OF PARTS) Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias hat mich gemalt und getöpfert, Ausstellung in der Archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 9.11.2018-31.3.2019 (Zurich, 2018): 217-220, FIGS.145-152 (COLOUR) Scheibler, I., Griechische Töpferkunst, Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefässe, 2nd ed. (Munich, 1995): 49, FIG.47 Spathari, E., Sailing through time, the ship in Greek art (Athens, 1995): 84-85, FIG.94 (COLOUR OF PART OF S) Spivey, N. and Rasmussen, T. (eds.) Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991): 6-7, FIGS.2A-C (PARTS) Tsiphaki, D. et al., AtticPOT, Attic painted pottery in ancient Thrace (6th – 4th century BC). New approaches and digital tools (Xanthi, 2022): 27, FIGS.10A-B (INSCRIPTIONS)
CAVI Lemma: Fragmentary BF dinos. From Cerveteri. Exekias. Third quarter sixth. 540-530.
CAVI Subject: The body is black. Inside the mouth, ships; outside it, ivy.
CAVI Inscriptions: On top of the shoulder, above the tongue pattern, Grr.: A: Εχσεκιας μεποιεσε.
B: Επαι̣νετος μεδοκεν Χαροποι.
CAVI Comments: (M 446). "Both inscriptions were added by Exekias after the vase was
complete, doubtless at the request of the purchaser Epainetos; Epainetos was
probably a Sicyonian; or Charopos was, or both were." (ABV). However, Cohen n.
56 cites J. Escher in RE iii, col. 2184, no. 4 (1899) who says Charopos was an
epithet of Heracles. But I am not sure that εδωκεν is used of dedications. The
inscriptions are well centered by their middles on the two sides. Both
inscriptions are by the same hand. Attic (signature). Sicyonian (gift
inscription).
CAVI Number: 7202
AVI Bibliography: Mingazzini (1930), text, pl. I, 446 (inscriptions). — ABV (1956), 146/20,
686. — Guarducci (1974), 338 (ill.). — Scheibler (1983), figs. 47,a,b
(inscriptions). — Add.[2] (1989), 41. — AttScr (1990), no. 142. — Cohen (1991),
figs. 9-10 (signatures; same pictures as in Scheibler).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
