Attributed To: AMASIS P by BEAZLEY AMASIS by SIGNATURE
Decoration: A: DIONYSOS (NAMED) WITH KANTHAROS, MAENADS WITH IVY, ONE IN PANTHER SKIN WITH DEER, ONE HOLDING HARE B: ATHENA AND POSEIDON (BOTH NAMED) Shoulder A and B: FIGHT, WARRIORS, ONE FALLING, ARCHER RUNNING, MAN IN CHITONISKOS AND FUR CAP BLOWING HORN, DEVICES, STAR, PROTOME HORSE, BOAR, LION PROTOME, GOAT, DEER, SWAN, WINGS, RAM PROTOME, HEAD OF PANTHER
Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Cabinet des Medailles: 222
Previous Collections:
Paris, private, Duke of Luynes: 678
Publication Record: Archeo, Attualita di Passato: 80 (OCTOBER 1991) 76 (COLOUR OF PART OF A) Beazley, J.D., Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters (Oxford, 1956): 152.25, 687 Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 63 Boardman, J. (ed.), La ceramica antica (Milan, 1984): 198 (B) Boardman, J. with Charleston, R.J., Cook, R.M., and Hennessy, J.B., Die Keramik der Antike, Mesopotamien, Agypten, Griechenland, Italien (Freiburg, Basel, and Wien, 1985): 198 (COLOUR OF A) Bothmer, D. von, The Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1985): 125-128, NO.23 (A, B, NAB, UH, PROFILE) Carpenter, T.H., Art and Myth in Ancient Greece (London, 1991): FIG.9 (B) Carpenter, T.H., Dionysian Imagery in Fifth-Century Athens (Oxford, 1997): PL.18A (A) Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 43 Colonna, C., De rouge et de noir, Les vases grecs de la collection de Luynes (Paris, 2013): 57, NO.27 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery (London, 1966): PL.23 (A) Cook, R.M., Greek Painted Pottery 3rd ed. (London, 1997): PL.23 (A) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: PARIS, BIBLIOTHEQUE NATIONALE 1, 28-29, PLS.(320-321) 36.1-7, 37.1-7 View Whole CVA Plates Fullerton, M.D., Greek Art (Cambridge, 2000): 72-73, FIGS.52-53 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Garés-Molero, A., Rodríguez-Pérez, D., and Diez-Castillo, A.A. (eds.), Over Land and Sea, The long-distance trade, distribution and consumption of ancient Greek pottery (Oxford, 2025): 44, FIG.4.3 (COLOUR DRAWING OF UH) Gherchanoc, F. and Huet, V. (eds.), Vetements antiques, S'habiller, se deshabiller dans les mondes anciens (Arles, 2012): 212, FIG.6 (COLOUR OF A) Giacobello, F. (ed.), Le Ore della Donna, Storie e immagini nella collezione di ceramiche attiche a magnogreche di Intesa Sanpaolo (Vicenza, 2009): 66 (A) Isler-Kerenyi, C., Dionysos in Archaic Greece, An Understanding through Images (Leiden, 2007): FIGS.70-71 (A, B) Jackson, D. A., East Greek Influence on Attic Vases, Supplementary Paper 13 (London, 1976): 35, FIG.17 (AH) Kraus, C., Goldhill, S., Foley, H.P., and Elsner, J. (eds.), Visualizing the Tragic, Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature (Oxford, 2007): 291, FIGS.12.1-2 (A, B) Kéi, N., L'esthétique des fleurs, kosmos, poikilia et kharis dans la céramique attique du VIe et du Ve siècle av. n. ère, ICON 22 (Berlin and Boston, 2022): 27, FIG.1 (A) Lenormant, C. and de Witte, J., Elite des monuments ceramographiques (1837-61): I, PL.78 (COLOUR DRAWING OF B) Lissarrague, F. et al. (eds.), Ceramique et peinture Grecques, Modes d'emploi, Actes du colloque internat., Ecole du Louvre, April 1995 (Paris, 1999): 179, FIG.3 (A) Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 88, 184, 208, FIGS.68, 143, 166 (COLOUR OF PART OF S, A, & B) Lissarrague, F., Greek Vases, The Athenians and their Images (2001): 88, FIG.68, 184, FIG.143, 208, FIG.166 (COLOUR OF A, B, AND PART OF S) Moraw, S., Die Mänade in der attischen Vasenmalerei des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. (Mainz, 1998): PL.4.9 (A) Morford, M. et al., Classical Mythology, International Ninth Edition (Oxford, 2011): 320 (A) Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 160-161, FIG.86 (PARTS OF SAB) Neer, R.T., Art and Archaeology of the Greek World, a new history, c.2500-c.150 BC (London, 2012): 145, FIG.5.42 (COLOUR OF A AND B) Numismatica e Antichita Classiche, Quaderni Ticinesi: 19 (1990) 74, PL.4.6 (A) Oakley, J.H. et al., Athenian Potters and Painters, The Conference Proceedings (Oxford, 1997): 30-31, FIGS.33-34, 36 (A, AH, PROFILE) Osborne, R., Archaic and Classical Greek Art, Oxford History of Art (Oxford, 1998): 104, FIG.49 (COLOUR OF A) Papers on the Amasis Painter and his World (Malibu, 1987): 104, FIG.5; 180, FIG.6 (B,SB) Pappalardo, E., Nisa Partica, i rhyta ellenistici (Florence, 2010): 222, FIG.7.26 (A) Pedley, J.G., Greek Art and Archaeology (New Jersey, 1993): 187, FIG.6.65 (COLOUR OF A) Pedley, J.G., Greek Art and Archaeology. Fifth Edition (London, 2011): 194, FIG.6.77 (COLOUR OF A) Robertson, C.M., The art of vase-painting in classical Athens (Cambridge, 1992): 8, FIGS.1-2 (B, PART OF B) Schlesier, R. and Schwarzmaier, A. (eds.), Dionysos, Verwandlung und Ekstase (Berlin, 2008): 22, FIG.4 (DRAWING OF A) Tiverios, M.A., Elliniki techni, archaia angaia (Athens, 1996): 80-81, FIGS.41-42 (COLOUR OF A AND PART OF A) Tsingarida, A. (ed.), Shapes and Uses of Greek Vases (7th-4th centuries B.C.), Proceedings of the Symposium held at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 27-29 April 2006 (Brussels, 2009): 46, PL.3.7 (UH) Valavanis, P. and Kourkoumelis, D., Chaire kai piei, drinking vessels (1996): 45 (COLOUR OF A) Venturi, I., Dionisio e la democrazia Ateniese (Rome, 1997): FRONTCOVER (COLOUR OF A) Verbovsek, A. et al. (eds.), Methodik und Didaktik in der Ägyptologie, Herausforderungen eines kulturwissenschaftlichen Paradigmenwechsels in der Altertumswissenschaften (Munich, 2011): 344, PL.4A (PART OF S) Villanueva-Puig, M-C., Menades, Recherches sur la genese iconographique du thiase feminin de Dionysos des origins a la fin de la period archaique (Paris, 2009): 241, FIG.23 (A) Woodford, S., An Introduction to Greek Art. Sculpture and Vase Painting in the Archaic and Classical Periods. 2nd edition (London, 2015): 22, FIG.22 (COLOUR OF A) Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art II, Inscriptions and Representations on Athenian Vases (Athens, 2024): 117, FIG.11 (A)
CAVI Lemma: BF NECK AMPHORA. FROM VULCI. AMASIS PAINTER. AMASIS, POTTER. CA. 540.
CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: A-B: BATTLE. BODY: A: ATHENA AND POSEIDON. B: DIONYSUS AND TWO
MAENADS.
CAVI Inscriptions: A: TO RIGHT OF (BEHIND) POSEIDON'S HEAD: Ποσειδον{1}. BETWEEN THE FIGURES,
ALONG POSEIDON'S TRIDENT: Αμασις V. μεποιεσεν. B: ABOVE DIONYSUS' HEAD:
Διονυσος. CONTINUING ON THE SAME LINE, AFTER A VACAT: Αμασις VAC. μεποιεσεν. THE
SPACING IS EVEN.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} CVA GIVES Αθεναια BEHIND HER HEAD, BUT THAT MUST HAVE BEEN A RESTORATION,
AS THIS PART IS MISSING. FOR THE READING OF Ποσειδον, SEE THREATTE (1996), 127
(R. GUY ATTESTS THAT THE SIGMA IS CERTAIN: SHAPIRO BY LETTER TO THREATTE).
CAVI Comments: FOR THE POTTER AMASIS, SEE H. MOMMSEN (1997), 17-34.
CAVI Number: 6090
AVI Bibliography: CIG 4 (1855–77), NO. 8125. — KRETSCHMER (1894), 75. — M. LAMBRINO, CVA
BIBLIOTHèQUE NATIONALE 1, FRANCE 7 (1928), III H E, PLS. 36-37. — ABV (1956),
152/25 (MUCH BIBL.), 687. — PARA. (1971), 63. — BOTHMER (1985), 125/23 (ILL.;
BIBL.). — DEV.[2] (1986), PLS. 50-51. — ADD.[2] (1989), 43 (MUCH BIBL.). —
ATTSCR (1990), NO. 157.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
