Decoration: A: THESEUS AND THE MINOTAUR, BETWEEN DRAPED YOUTH AND WOMEN B: THESEUS AND SKIRON, CAULDRON OR BASIN (?)
Last Recorded Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 3985
Previous Collections:
Hague, Scheurleer
Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 19B5
Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 13B5
Publication Record: American Journal of Archaeology: 122 (2018) 398-399, FIGS 1-2, 3A-B (B, DRAWINGS AND DETAILS OF B) Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 204.110 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 28.2 Beazley, J.D., Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils (Tübingen, 1925): 65.2 Burn, L. and Glynn, R., Beazley Addenda (Oxford, 1982): 96 Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 193 Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: FIRENZE, REGIO MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO 1, III.I.15, III.I.22, PLS.(388,394) 13.5, 19.5 View Whole CVA Plates Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: FIRENZE, REGIO MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO 2, III.I.34, III.I.35, PLS.(615-616) 31.2, 32.1-3 View Whole CVA Plates Esposito, A.M. and Tommaso, G. (eds.), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze, Vasi Attici (Firenze, 1993): 53, FIGS.72-73 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Furtwängler, A. and Reichhold, K., Griechische Vasenmalerei (Munich, 1904-32): II, 81 Greifenhagen, A., Neue Fragmente des Kleophradesmalers (Heidelberg, 1972): PL.12 (A) Hoppin, J.C., Euthymides and his fellows (Cambridge, 1917): PL.23 Journal of Hellenic Studies: 103 (1983) PL.5C-D (A,B) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.320, MINOTAUROS 28 (A) Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.643, THESEUS 102 (A, B) Museo italiano di antichita classica (Florence, 1885-90): III, PL.4 (PART) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 582, FIG.409 (A) Neils, J., The Youthful Deeds of Theseus (Rome, 1987): FIG.31 (B) Padgett, J.M. (ed.), The Berlin Painter and His World, Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C., Princeton University Art Museum Monograph Series (New Haven and London, 2017): 31, FIG.10 (COLOUR OF B)
CAVI Lemma: RF pelike. Berlin Painter. First quarter fifth. 500-490. Very early (ARV[2]).
CAVI Subject: A: Theseus and the Minotaur. B: Theseus and Skiron.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: to right of Theseus' middle: Θεσευς. B: To left of Theseus' back: (ε)υ γε.
To right of his head: καλλιστος.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} so in the text of CVA. {2} so my reading from the photo in CVA, but in
another photo I saw only a regular dotted theta.
CAVI Comments: + [Amsterdam?], Once Hague, Scheurleer Collection: neck. Beazley in ARV[2],
following M. Robertson (1950), attributes the vase to the very early Berlin
Painter, but others had attributed it to Euthymides or the Kleophrades Painter
and ARV[1] had given it to a "Vienna Painter." - The epsilon of ευ γε is a clear
nu and the inscription has been read νυ[ν] γε by D. Levi (see AttScr (1990), 82
and n. 11), but I think the nu is a copying error for epsilon (AttScr (1990),
173). Furtwängler saw καλε instead of καλλιστος on B; see FR ii, 80-81. - The
letter forms are somewhat idiosyncratic: alpha with horizontal cross bar? Gamma
= a vertical half-arrow{1}. Theta perhaps with diagonal cross stroke{2}. Upsilon
with one hasta curved.
CAVI Number: 3568
AVI Bibliography: C.W. Lunsingh Scheurleer, CVA The Hague 1, Netherlands 1 (1927), III I c, pl.
3,1 (neck fr.). — D. Levi, CVA Florence 1, Italy 8 (1932), p. 1. — D. Levi, CVA
Florence 2, Italy 13 (1938), III I, pls. 31,2 and 32,1-3. — ARV[2] (1963),
204/110. — Add.[2] (1989), 193. — AttScr (1990), no. 491. — Esposito–De Tommaso
(1993), 53/72-73.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
