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320311, ATHENIAN, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano, 16591

  • Vase Number: 320311
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Date: -550 to -500
  • Inscriptions: Named: ACHILEUS, MESMON
  • Attributed To: WÜRZBURG 199, GROUP OF by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: HERAKLES AND THE BULL, QUIVER AND BOW SUSPENDED FROM TREE
    B: FIGHT, WARRIORS (ACHILLES AND MEMNON, NAMED), WITH BOEOTIAN SHIELDS, DEVICE, THUNDERBOLT OR STAR (FLORAL, ROSETTE ?)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 389
  • Previous Collections:
    • Vatican City, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco Vaticano: 16591
  • Publication Record: Aloni, A., and Ornaghi, M. (eds.), Tra panellenismo e tradizioni locali, Nuovi contributi (Messina, 2011): 76, FIG.1 (B)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 288.8
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 126
    Dietrich, N., Figur ohne Raum? Bäume und Felsen in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Image & Context 7 (Berlin, 2010): 66, FIG.47 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.235, MEMNON 38 (B)
    Recke, M., Gewalt und Leid, Das Bild des Krieges bei den Athenern im 6. und 5. Jh. v. Chr. (Istanbul, 2002): PL.1B (B)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7248
  • AVI Record Number: 6993
  • LIMC ID: 15186
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-747ad2427b143-4
  • CAVI Collection: Rome, Vatican 389.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF neck amphora. Group of Würzburg 199 (Antimenean){1}. 530-520.
  • CAVI Subject: A: Heracles and the Bull. B: Achilles and Memnon.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: B: to left of Achilles' leg: Αχι̣λ[λ]ευς. To left of Memnon's head: Με(σ)μον, retr., for Μεμνον.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} "Most of these, or all, should be by one hand" (Beazley).
  • CAVI Comments: For the form Μεσμον see Kretschmer.
  • CAVI Number: 6993
  • AVI Bibliography: Kretschmer (1894), 169. — Albizzati (1929), 172, pl. 55. — ABV (1956), 288/8. — Para. (1971), 126.
  • 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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Last updated 26/07/2024 18:51:00 by Parker, Greg. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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