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231041, ATHENIAN, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts, 1900.354

  • Vase Number: 231041
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP
  • Provenance: GREECE, BOEOTIA, TANAGRA
  • Date: -400 TO -300
  • Inscriptions: Named: SPARTE
  • Attributed To: Akin to DIOMED P by BEAZLEY
    Near JENA P by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: A,B: IMPRESSED
    I, zone around: IVY LEAVES
    I: WOMAN (NAMED) SIDESADDLE ON HORSEBACK, AT ALTAR
  • Last Recorded Collection: Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 00.354
  • Previous Collections:
    • Boston (MA), Museum of Fine Arts: 1900.354
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1516
    Beazley, J.D., Paralipomena (Oxford, 1971): 500
    Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.365 (I)
    Bulletin van de Vereeniging tot Bevordering der Kennis van de Antieke Beschaving: 88 (2013), 128, FIG.2 (COLOUR OF I)
    Eschbach, N. and Schmidt, S. (eds.), Töpfer, Maler, Werkstatt. Zuschreibungen in der griechischen Vasenmalerei und die Organisation antiker Keramikproduktion (Munich, 2016): 154, FIG.9 (RIGHT) (I AND A)
    International Congress of Classical Archaeology, 12, Athens, 1983. Praktika, 2-3 Tou XII Diethnous Synedriou Klasikes Archaiologias, Athena, 4-10 Sep: VOL.B, PL.38.2 (I)
    James, S.L. and Dillon, S. (eds.), A companion to women in the ancient world (Malden, 2012): 154, FIG.11.1 (I)
    Paul-Zinserling, V., Der Jena-Maler und sein Kreis, Zur Ikonologie einer attischen Schalenwerkstatt um 400 v. Chr. (Mainz, 1994): PL.43.1 (I)
    Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.9.16 (I, IZ)
    Sparkes, B.A., The Red and the Black (London, 1996): 150, FIG.VI.9 (I)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=2840
  • AVI Record Number: 2693
  • LIMC ID: 8056
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-7415BEA465AAD-8
  • CAVI Collection: BOSTON 00.354.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF CUP{1}. FROM TANAGRA. NEAR JENA PAINTER, AKIN TO DIOMED PAINTER. CA. 400. 404/3 (?) (ROBERTSON).
  • CAVI Subject: WOMAN DISMOUNTING FROM HER HORSE AT AN ALTAR.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: TO RIGHT OF HER HEAD, IN WHITE: Σπαρτη.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} ACROCUP.
  • CAVI Comments: SEE THE FULL DISCUSSION IN CB III. SPARTE WAS A DAUGHTER OF EUROTAS, THE WIFE OF LAKEDAIMON, AND THE MOTHER OF AMYKLAS. FOR ATHENIAN PHILOLACONISM, CF. HAUSER AND CORBETT. - 404/3 IS A GOOD DATE FOR THIS VASE, BECAUSE OF ITS PRO-SPARTAN BIAS; SPARTE IS THE NYMPH OF SPARTA (ROBERTSON). P.-Z. HOWEVER ATTEMPTS A DATE IN THE 370'S.
  • CAVI Number: 2693
  • AVI Bibliography: F. HAUSER (1902), 248. — CB (1931–63), III, 89/175, PL. 106 (PHOTO). — CORBETT (1949), 104-107. — ARV[2] (1963), 1516. — PARA. (1971), 500. — BOARDMAN (1989), FIG. 365. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 831. — ROBERTSON (1992), 270. — PAUL-ZINSERLING (1994), 97-99, PL. 43,2 (INT.) (BIBL.).
  • 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/580114
  • Coordinates: 38.330884,23.540955
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 38.3001983333,23.581173
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