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302262, ATHENIAN, Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco, 3790

  • Vase Number: 302262
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: HYDRIA
  • Provenance: ITALY, ORVIETO
  • Date: -550 TO -500
  • Attributed To: Manner of LYSIPPIDES P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body: WEDDED PAIR IN CHARIOT, PELEUS AND THETIS (BOTH NAMED), DIONYSOS, APOLLO PLAYING KITHARA, ATHENA, HERMES, HERAKLES, GODDESSES, AMPHITRITE, APHRODITE (NAMED)
    Shoulder: HERAKLES AND KYKNOS, ARES, ATHENA, WOMAN, YOUTH, SHIELD DEVICE, TRIPOD
  • Last Recorded Collection: Florence, Museo Archeologico Etrusco: 3790
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 260.30, 264, 691
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, 1st ed. (Oxford, 1942): 4.24
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 114
    Capecchi, G. et al., In memoria di Enrico Paribeni (Rome, 1998): PL.87.1 (BD)
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.288 (PART)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 68
    Cavalier, O. (ed.), Silence et Fureur, La femme et le marriage en Grece, Les antiquites grecques du Musee Calvet (Avignon, ca.1997): 443, FIG.135 (PART OF BD)
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: FIRENZE, REGIO MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO 5, III.H.12, III.H.13, PLS.(1890,1892) 26.1-2, 28.1-2 View Whole CVA Plates
    De Puma, R.D. and Penny Small, J. (eds.), Murlo and the Etruscans, Art and Society in Ancient Etruria (Madison, 1994): 111, FIG.11.15 (BD)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.701, KYKNOS I 94 (SH)
    Oakley, J.H., and Sinos, R.H., The wedding in ancient Athens (Madison, 1993): 84, FIGS.62-63 (PARTS)
    PHOTOGRAPH(S) IN THE BEAZLEY ARCHIVE: 1 (BD)
    Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 63, FIG.1 (BD)
    Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias und seine Welt, Tagung an der Universität Zürich vom 1.–2. März 2019, Züricher Archäologische Forschungen 8 (Zurich, 2022): PL.67E (COLOUR OF PART OF BD)
    Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.24A-B (BD)
    Zardini, F., The Myth of Herakles and Kyknos, A Study in Greek Vase-Painting and Literature (Verona, 2009): 376, FIG.41 (PART OF S, BD)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=3718
  • AVI Record Number: 3541
  • CAVI Collection: FLORENCE 3790.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF HYDRIA. FROM ORVIETO. MANNER OF LYSIPPIDES PAINTER. 530-520.
  • CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: HERACLES AND CYCNUS. BODY: PELEUS AND THETIS IN CHARIOT (THE WEDDING, ACCORDING TO SHAPIRO).
  • CAVI Inscriptions: BODY: TO LEFT OF THE HEADS OF THE PAIR IN THE CHARIOT: Θυονε{1}. Διονυσ̣ος. SECOND PAIR: TO RIGHT OF THEIR FACES: Θετις. BETWEEN SPOKES OF A WHEEL: Πελευς. BEHIND THE HORSES, APOLLO PLAYING THE LYRE: Απολ[λ]ον. FACING APOLLO, THE PAIR OF HERACLES AND ATHENA: TO LEFT OF THEIR FACES: Hερακλες, RETR.{2}. TO RIGHT OF THEIR LEGS: Αθεναιας. HERMES: Hερ{ε}μες. BETWEEN THE HORSES' LEGS: Αφροδιτε. BETWEEN THE TWO FIGURES AT RIGHT: Ανφιτριτε, RETR. UNDER THE FOOT, GR.: LIGATURE OF ALPHA AND D-SHAPED RHO.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} KöRTE IDENTIFIED THYONE WITH ARIADNE, BUT BEAZLEY POINTS OUT SHE IS SEMELE. {2} BECAUSE OF GLARE I COULD ONLY SEE: Hερακ̣... , RETR.
  • CAVI Comments: IN ARV[1] ATTRIBUTED TO THE ANDOKIDES (I.E., LYSIPPIDES) PAINTER, IN ABS AND ABV TO HIS MANNER. RECALLS EXEKIAS' NORTH SLOPE KRATER (BEAZLEY). - ON THYONE-SEMELE, MOTHER OF DIONYSUS, SEE SHAPIRO, PP. 88 AND 92. PHI WITH A LONG HASTA. THREATTE (1980) AND (1996) HAS A DIFFERENT READING FOR HERMES: Hερεμ̣[ς, ADDING THAT CVA, P. 12, GIVES THE INSCRIPTION INCORRECTLY AS Hερμες); HE CONSIDERS Hερεμ̣ε[ς A LESS LIKELY READING. THIS IS MOST FULLY DISCUSSED IN VOL. I. T. MAKES THE ERROR OF THINKING THE VASE IS BY THE LYSIPPIDES PAINTER HIMSELF. - RHO ONCE WITH EXTENDED VERTICAL, AS ON THE NORTH SLOPE KRATER BY EXEKIAS.
  • CAVI Number: 3541
  • AVI Bibliography: PHOTO. — KöRTE (1877), 179-81 (INSCRIPTIONS). — HACKL (1909), 340 (GR.). — ARV[1] (1942), 4/24. — ABV (1956), 260/30, 264, 691. — P. BOCCI, CVA FLORENCE 5, ITALY 42 (1969), FLORENCE 5 (1969), PLS. 26,1-2 AND 28,1-2 (BIBL.). — PARA. (1971), 114. — JOHNSTON (1979), 131/9E 27 (GR.). — THREATTE (1980), 408 AND II, 76. — ADD.[2] (1989), 68. — BEAZLEY (1989), 41/9. — SHAPIRO (1989), 54-56, 88, 92, 97, 113 N., PL. 24,A-B. — OAKLEY–SINOS (1993), 28, FIGS.62-63 (SHOW INSCRIPTIONS).
  • 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/639959859
  • Coordinates: 42.718642,12.114315
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.7225286,12.1198882
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Last updated 15/12/2025 06:37:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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