Attributed To: HIERON by SIGNATURE MAKRON by BEAZLEY
Decoration: A,B: MEN, SOME WITH STAFFS, ONE WITH SPRIG, ONE WITH FLOWER, ONE SEATED ON BLOCK PLAYING LYRE, AND YOUTHS, ONE SEATED ON STOOL PLAYING PIPES, SPONGE AND STRIGIL SUSPENDED I: COURTING, DRAPED MAN WITH BAG (?) AND STAFF, YOUTH SEATED, STOOL Under handle: STOOLS
Last Recorded Collection: New York (N.Y.), Metropolitan Museum: 08.258.57
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 21 (1917) PLS.4-6 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 472.207, 482 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 217.90 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): II, 66-7 Kunisch, N., Makron (Mainz, 1997): 70, FIG.33, PL153.450 (A, B, I, AH) Metropolitan Museum Journal: 26 (1991) 75, FIG.45 (OH)
CAVI Lemma: RF cup. From Falerii (Cività Castellana). Makron. Hieron, potter. First
quarter fifth. 480-470; late (Kunisch).
CAVI Subject: Int.: a man and a youth. A: a man with a lyre and men; a youth playing the
flutes, and a male; man and boy. B: men and youths.
CAVI Inscriptions: On handle B/A, in BG area of left hasta, Gr.: hιερον̣ ε̣ποιεσεν{1}.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the dotted letters are unclear in the ph. because the glaze has split
off; the sketch on Kunisch' p.209 marks this for the first omicron and the first
nu only, but the omicron seems clear in the ph.
CAVI Comments: The signature is short and small-lettered.
CAVI Number: 5584
AVI Bibliography: Richter–Hall (1936), i, 76/54, pls. 50 and 55-56. — ARV[2] (1963), 472/207. —
Bothmer (1982), 47. — Cohen (1991), 73, fig. 45 (signature). — Kunisch (1997),
7, 209/450, pl. 153 (shows most of signature).
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
