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202164, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1842,0822.1

  • Vase Number: 202164
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: KRATER, CALYX
  • Date: -500 to -450
  • Inscriptions: Named: AKAMAS, DEMOPHON, AETHRA
  • Attributed To: MYSON by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: AKAMAS AND DEMOPHON LEADING AITHRA (ALL NAMED), SHIELD DEVICE, PEGASOS, CENTAUR
    B: HERAKLES AND APOLLO, THE STRUGGLE FOR THE TRIPOD, DEER
  • Last Recorded Collection: London, British Museum: E458
  • Previous Collections:
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 239.16, 237, 238
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 171.46
    Beazley, J.D., Attic red-figured Vases in American Museums (Cambridge, 1918): 49 (B)
    Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 97.2
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 349
    Birchall, A. and Corbett, P., Greek Gods and Heroes (London,1974): FIG.33 (B)
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases (London, 1975): FIG.172 (A, PART OF B)
    Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 100
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.259 (A)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 201
    Ellinghaus, C., Die Parthenonskulpturen, Der Bauschmuck eines öffentlichen Monumentes der demokratischen Gesellschaft Athens zur Zeit des Perikles, Techniken in der bildenden Kunst zur Tradierung von Aussagen (Hamburg, 2011): FIG.83 (A)
    Frank, S., Attische Kelchkratere, eine Untersuchung zum Zusammenspiel von Gefässform und Bemalung (Frankfurt, 1990): PL.10 (A, B)
    Herford, M., Handbook of Greek Vase Painting (Manchester, 1919): PL.7D (B)
    Hesperia, The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens: 75.4 (2006) 442, FIG.6 (B)
    Huf, L., Frauen jenseits der Konvention, Alterszüge, Tätowierungen und afrikanische Physiognomien im Frauenbild attischer Vasen des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Munich, 2018): 50, FIGS.17.1-3 (COLOUR OF A AND PARTS OF A)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 845, NO.329 (A)
    Kron, U., Die zehn attischen Phylenheroen, Geschichte, Mythos, Kult und Darstellungen (Berlin, 1976): PL.22.2 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.332, AITHRA I 66 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: V, PL.126, HERAKLES 2965 (B)
    Mangold, M., Kassandra in Athen, die Eroberung Trojas auf attischen Vasenbildern (Berlin, 2000): 106, FIG.58 (A)
    Matheson, S.B. and Pollitt, J.J., Old Age in Greek and Roman Art (Yale, 2022): FRONTISPIECE, 32, FIG.8 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF A)
    Mededelingenblad, Vereniging van Vrienden van het Allard PiersonMuseum: 27 (1983) 10, FIG.23 (A)
    Monumenti inediti pubblicati dall'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica (Rome, 1829-91): II, PL.25-26
    Monuments et memoires publies par l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres: 29 (1927-28) 181 (A)
    Pfisterer-Haas, S., Darstellungen alter Frauen in der griechischen Kunst (Frankfurt, 1989): 172, FIG.16 (A)
    Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 125, FIG.128 (A)
    Villing, A. et al., Troy, myth and reality (London, 2019): 46, FIG.31 (COLOUR OF A)
    Walter, H., Die Gestalt der Frau (Stuttgart, 1985): 56, FIG.47 (A)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=4776
  • AVI Record Number: 4604
  • LIMC ID: 22547
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-74e31d5bd19fe-9
  • British Museum Link: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1842-0822-1
  • CAVI Collection: London E 458.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF calyx krater. Myson. First quarter fifth.
  • CAVI Subject: A: The Rescue of Aithra by Demophon and Akamas. B: The Struggle for the Tripod.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: A: by the helmet: Ακαμας. In front of her face: Αεθρα, for Αιθρα{1}. By the helmet: Δεμοφον. Under the foot, Gr.{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} Threatte (1980), 268. {2} mentioned in Johnston (1979), p. 36, but not given; said to be in the old BM Cat. (prior to C. Smith').
  • CAVI Comments: Attic with four-stroke sigma; phi = cartwheel theta.
  • CAVI Number: 4604
  • AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), no. 7746. — Kretschmer (1894), 102 (wrong no.) and 126. — C.H. Smith in BM Cat. E (1896), 280-81 (not ill.). — VA (1918), 49 (A). — ARV[2] (1963), 239/16. — Para. (1971), 349. — Add.[2] (1989), 201. — AttScr (1990), no. 1135. — Robertson (1992), 124, fig. 128 (A) [called B by R.]
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

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