Menu
Search
Main SiteGandhara ConnectionsVase Corpus (CVA Online)
Search

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)
  • 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)
Image Image Image Image Image Image

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/D67A6196-DBBC-4F22-8A1C-101D60420B9A

My photograph albums
Site map Copyright Accessibility Privacy statement Contact us
Gandhara Connections
Gandhara Connections on Facebook
Gandhara Connections on Twitter
Back to top