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302569, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 99.518

  • Vase Number: 302569
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Date: -575 TO -525
  • Attributed To: BOSTON POLYPHEMOS, P OF by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A: ODYSSEUS AND CIRCE (NAKED) WITH KANTHAROS, MAN FLEEING, MEN WITH HEADS OF RAM, LION AND BOAR, DOG
    B: ODYSSEUS AND POLYPHEMOS, MEN, SOME WITH CHLAMYDES AND SHIELDS, ONE WITH WINESKIN, ONE WITH OINOCHOE, ATHENA, SHIELD DEVICE, SWAN
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 99.518
  • Publication Record: Andreae, B. et al., Ulisse, il mito e la memoria (Rome, 1996): 52, FIG.11 (A)
    Angiolillo, S., and Giuman, M. (eds.), Imago, Studi di iconografia antica (Cagliari, 2007): 135, FIG.4 (A, B)
    Antike Kunst: 42 (1999) 1, PL.3.1-2 (A, B)
    Archeologia Classica: 42 (1990), 378, FIG.1 (A)
    Aston, E., Mixanthropoi, Animal-human hybrid deities in Greek religion (Liege, 2011): 263, FIG.33 (A)
    Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 198
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 80
    Berard, C. (ed.), Images et societe en Grece ancienne, L'iconographie comme methode d'analyse, Cahiers d'Archeologie Romande 36 (Lausanne, 1987): 12, FIG.2 (A)
    Bettini, M. and Franco, C., Il mito di Circe, Immagini e racconti dalla Grecia a oggi (Torino, 2010): 138, FIG.5 (A)
    Bisconti, F. (ed.), L'ipogeo degli Aureli in viale Manzoni, Restauri, tutela, valorizzazione e aggiornamenti interpretativi (Vatican City, 2011): 181, FIG.11 (A)
    Boardman, J., The history of Greek vases, potters, painters and pictures (London, 2001): 200, FIG.217 (DRAWING OF A)
    Bol, P. (ed.), Zum Verhältnis von Raum und Zeit in der griechischen Kunst (2003): 32, FIG.1 (DRAWING OF A AND B),PL.59, FIG.123 (A)
    Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.343 (A)
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 53
    Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BOSTON, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS 2, 31-32, PL.(922) 88.1-5 View Whole CVA Plates
    Fogen, T. and Lee, M.M. (eds.), Bodies and boundaries in Graeco-Roman antiquity (Berlin, New York, 2009): 271, FIG.4 (A)
    Giuliani, L., Image and myth, a history of pictorial narration in Greek art (Chicago, 2013): 158, FIG.36 (A)
    Grmek, M. and Gourevitch, D., Les maladies dans l'art antique (1998): 144, FIG.102 (A)
    Heinemann, A., Der Gott des Gelages. Dionysos, Satyrn und Mänaden auf attischem Trinkgeschirr des 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2016): 320-321, FIG.205 (A AND B)
    Hephaistos: 11/12 (1992/93) 17, FIG.6 (A)
    Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts: 115 (2000) 295, FIG.21 (A)
    Kondoleon, C., Grossmann, R.A., et al., MFA Highlights, Classical Art (Boston, 2008): 67, 182, FIG.17 (COLOUR OF A AND PARTS OF A)
    Lapatin, K. (ed.), Papers on Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, Proceedings of a symposium held in connection with the exhibition The Colours of Clay, Special Techniques in Athenian Vases, at the Getty Villa, June 15-17, 2006 (Los Angeles, 2008): 77, FIG.3 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.52, EURYLOCHOS I 1 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.25, KIRKE 14 (A), PL.631, ODYSSEUS 139 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VIII, PL.666, POLYPHEMOS I 2 (B)
    Marconi, C. (ed.), Greek Vases, Images, Contexts and Controversies (Leiden and Boston, 2004): FIG.7.1 (A)
    Metzler, D. (ed.), Mazzo di Fiori, Festschrift für Herbert Hoffmann (Ruhpolding and Mainz, 2010): 38, FIG.1 (A)
    Meyer, M. and von den Hoff, R. (eds.), Helden wie sie. Übermensch, Vorbild, Kultfigur in der griechischen Antike (Vienna, 2010): 116, FIG.3 (A)
    Powell, B., Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The Essential Books (Oxford, 2015): 343, FIG.10.1 (A)
    Reeder, E.D. et al., Pandora, Women in Classical Greece (Baltimore, 1995): 60, FIG.2 (A)
    Revista de Arqueologia: 362 (JUNE 2011) 36 (COLOUR OF PART OF A)
    Shapiro H.A., Myth into Art, Poet and Painter in Classical Athens (London, 1994): 54, 57, FIGS.33, 35 (A,B)
    Shapiro, H.A., Art and Cult under the Tyrants in Athens (Mainz, 1989): PL.21C-D (A,B)
    Snodgrass, A.M., An Archaeology of Greece, the present State and Future Scope of a Discipline (London, 1987): 137, FIG.35 (A)
    Snodgrass, A.M., Homer and the Artists, Text and Picture in early Greek Art (Cambridge, 1998): 58, FIG.24 (A)
    Spivey, N. and Rasmussen, T. (eds.) Looking at Greek Vases (Cambridge, 1991): 83, FIG.31 (A)
    Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D, Pictorial Narrative in Ancient Greek Art (Cambridge, 1999): 89, FIG.38 (A)
    Stansbury-O'Donnell, M.D., A History of Greek Art (Oxford, 2015): 217, FIG.9.6 (COLOUR OF A)
    Vermeule, E., Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Berkeley, 1979): 129, FIG.3 (A)
    Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 210, FIG.34.1 (PART OF A)
    Vout, C., Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body (London, 2022): 36, FIG.15 (COLOUR OF A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=2824
  • AVI Record Number: 2677
  • LIMC ID: 6866
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-7404DC478BCDC-3
  • CAVI Collection: BOSTON 99.518.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF CUP WITH MERRYTHOUGHT HANDLES{1}. PAINTER OF BOSTON POLYPHEMUS. THIRD QUARTER SIXTH.
  • CAVI Subject: A: ODYSSEUS WITH HIS COMPANIONS, AND CIRCE. B: ODYSSEUS AND POLYPHEMUS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: NONSENSE: A: χνεπ(.)Hχ̣(.). χ(ε)νυνι. ϝκ(.)π(ο), RETR. χκ̣H(.), RETR. κχ̣(.), RETR. κοπν[--]. κϝνκχ(ϝ)ϝ(2), RETR. κυκκ·, RETR.{3}. πχγοτ. πυπHπο(.)[--]. κμϝοσπχγ. κHκνϝ(ϝ)ϝ̣ε(λ). κοεHο(α). ϝ(α)ϝ·{3}. ϝν[.]ι̣οϝπγνρ̣. πḥοϝ(π)χ(ε)χ(4) (.)πολι̣. B: 9 SIMILAR INSCRIPTIONS{5}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} FRAGMENTARY, ESPECIALLY B. {2} UPSIDE DOWN. {3} THESE INSCRIPTIONS END IN DOTS. {4} SIDEWAYS. {5} MANY INSCRIPTIONS ON A ARE VERTICAL EXCEPT FOR THOSE IN THE CENTER. B: THE PH. SHOWS A CURVED HORIZONTAL INSCRIPTION AND A DIAGONAL ONE. PL. 88,4-5 SHOW INSCRIPTIONS SPILLING OVER INTO THE HANDLE AREA.
  • CAVI Comments: NUMEROUS LETTER FORMS, SEE ATTSCR (ESP. FOR THE KAPPA). THE LETTERS IN ROUND BRACKETS ARE UNCLEAR. NOTE THE DIGAMMAS.
  • CAVI Number: 2677
  • AVI Bibliography: ABV (1956), 198. — PARA. (1971), 80. — M. TRUE ET AL., CVA BOSTON 2, USA 19 (1978), BOSTON 2, PL. 88. — ADD.[2] (1989), 53 (BIBL.). — SHAPIRO (1989), 45, PL. 21,C-D. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 1013. — VIERNEISEL–KAESER (1990), FIG. 34.1 (A). — WANNAGAT (1999), 9-20, PLS. 3-4 (PL. 3,1 IS B, THE FRAGMENTARY POLYPHEMUS SCENE; PL. 3,2 IS A, THE CIRCE SCENE. BOTH PICTURES ARE EXC. FOR SHOWING THE STRINGS OF NONSENSE LETTERS).
  • 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 15/12/2025 06:40:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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