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305074, ATHENIAN, Athens, National Museum, Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection, 15165

  • Vase Number: 305074
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: DINOS, FRAGMENTS
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS, ACROPOLIS
  • Date: -600 to -550
  • Inscriptions: Named: HESTIA, NYSAI, LETU
    Signature: SOPHILOS EGRAPHSEN
  • Attributed To: SOPHILOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: Body 1: WEDDING OF PELEUS AND THETIS (NAMED) IN CHARIOT, GODDESSES (NAMED), IRIS IN NEBRIS, POSEIDON AND AMPHITRITE IN CHARIOT, COLUMN, DOOR (BUILDING)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 1.587
  • Previous Collections:
    • Athens, National Museum: 15165
  • Publication Record: Ahlberg-Cornell, G., Herakles and the Sea-Monster in Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painting (Stockholm, 1984): 105, FIG.36 (PARTS)
    Bakir, G., Sophilos (Mainz, 1981): PLS.3-5, FIGS.5-9, PLS.89-90, FIGS.187-94
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 39.15, 681
    Beazley, J.D., The Development of Attic Black-figure, 2nd ed. (California, 1986): PL.15.2
    Bianchi Bandinelli, R. and Paribeni, E., L'Arte dell' antichita classica, I, Grecia (Turin, 1976): NO.269
    Boardman, J., Athenian Black Figure Vases (London, 1974): FIG.25.1,2
    Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian Imagery in Archaic Greek Art (Oxford, 1986): PL.3A (PART)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 10
    Charbonneaux, J., Martin, R., and Villard, F., Archaic Greek Art (London, 1971): 57, FIGS.59-60
    Cohen, B., The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases (Los Angeles, 2006): 161, NO.40 (COLOUR)
    Fiorentini, G., Caltabiano, M., and Calderone, A. (eds.), Archeologia del Mediterraneo, Studi in onore di Ernesto de Miro (Rome, 2003): 477, FIG.10 (PART)
    Haas, G., Die Syrinx in der griechischen Bildkunst (Wien, 1985): 148, FIG.6
    Hirayama, T., Kleitias and Attic Black-Figure Vases in the Sixth-Century B.C. (Tokyo, 2010): FIG.21A
    Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Wien: 74 (2005) 202, FIG.26
    Jahreshefte des Österreichischen Archäologischen Instituts in Wien: 76 (2007) 356, FIG.3 (PART)
    Kaltsas, N. (ed.), Athens-Sparta (New York, 2006): 111, NO.35 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Lagogianni-Georgakarakos, M. (ed.), Known and Unknown Nikai. In History, Art and Life. Ministry of Culture and Sports - National Archaeological Museum (Athens. 2021): 38, FIG.5 (COLOUR OF PART)
    Leveque, P. et al., La Colonisation Grecque en Mediterranee occidentale, Actes de la rencontre scientifique en hommage a Georges Vallet (Rome, 1999): PL.4.3 AT 111 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: I, PL.580, AMPHITRITE 53 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.150, CHARIKLO I (ONE FRAGMENT)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.369, POSEIDON 182A
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.598, NYSA I, NYSAI 2
    Lissarrague, F. et al. (eds.), Ceramique et peinture Grecques, Modes d'emploi, Actes du colloque internat., Ecole du Louvre, April 1995 (Paris, 1999): 161, FIG.1 (DRAWING)
    Moon, W.G. (ed.), Ancient Greek Art and Iconography (Madison, 1983): 58-59, FIGS.4.4A-J
    Moraw, S., Die Mänade in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Mainz, 1998): PL.1.4 (PART)
    Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 299, FIG.3 (PART)
    Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 188, FIGS.84-54 (COLOUR OF PARTS)
    Phoenix, Classical Association of Canada: 55 (2001) 16, FIG.2, PL.1 (PARTS)
    Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art, Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (Oxford, 2016): 199-200, FIGS.10-11 (PARTS)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=1078
  • AVI Record Number: 963
  • LIMC ID: 420
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-73a98c62bcadd-0
  • CAVI Collection: Athens, N.M. Acr. i, 587.+
  • CAVI Lemma: Frs. of BF dinos. From Athens. Sophilos. First quarter sixth.
  • CAVI Subject: Wedding of Peleus and Thetis.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Σοφιλος εγραφσεν, retr. Nυσ[σ]αι(?). Ποσε̣[ιδον], retr. Ἀν[φιτριτε]. Λετο. Δε̣[μ]ε̣τερ, retr. Χαριϙλο. hεστια. hερ̣α.
  • CAVI Comments: Guilleron's dr. shows the inscriptions to be in red. For the problem of the Nyssai, see Threatte (1980), 260: Vanderpool suggests error for (Μ)οσαι ((Μ)υσαι, accepted in Threatte (1980), 260, but rejected in Threatte (1996), 722 and 756). See also AttScr.
  • CAVI Number: 0963
  • AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), i, pl. 26 (much bibl.). — Karouzou (1937), 133/23, pl. 51 (very good picture [before 1940!]). — ABV (1956), 39/15, 681. — Jeffery (1961), 77/114a, pl. 2 (part). — Bakir (1981), 64/A 2, pls. 3-5; 89, fig. 190; 90, fig. 194. — Karouzou (1983), 57 (mentions additional frs. found in 1940). — Stewart (1983), 58 ff., figs. 4.4,a-j. — Dev.[2] (1986), pl. 15, 3. — Add.[2] (1989), 10 (much bibl.). — AttScr (1990), no. 61.
  • 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/638356144
  • Coordinates: 37.971422,23.726167
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 37.971421,23.726166
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