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30676, ATHENIAN, Germany, private, 31

  • Vase Number: 30676
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: AMPHORA, NECK
  • Date: -500 TO -450
  • Inscriptions: Named: OKEANOS, THES[E]US, PE[…]IDOS, STR[Y]MON, HERAKLEES, AMANAOS, NI[L]OS, ATHENAIA, ADRO
  • Decoration: A,B: HERAKLES (NAMED) IN THE GARDEN OF HESPERIDES SEATED ON BLOCK, MEN, SOME OLD (?), WITH STAFFS, ALL DRAPED, ATHENA (NAMED), WOMEN WITH SPRIGS (NAMED, OKEANOS, STRYMON)
    Shoulder: CENTAUROMACHY, CENTAURS, SOME WITH TREES, SOME WITH ROCKS, SOME FALLEN, THESEUS (NAMED) AND PERITHOOS (NAMED), ONE FALLEN, DEVICES, OCTOPUS, LION
  • Last Recorded Collection: Germany, private: 31
  • Publication Record: Agathos Daimon, Mythes et Cultes, Etudes d'iconographie en l'honneur de Lilly Kahil, BCH Supplement 38 (2000): 515, FIG.4 (PART)
    Christiansen, J. and Melander, T., Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Ancient Greek and Related Pottery, Copenhagen 31.8.-4.9.87 (Copenhagen, 1988): 108, 110-114, FIGS.1-9 (A,B,S)
    Eschbach, N. and Schmidt, S. (eds.), Töpfer, Maler, Werkstatt. Zuschreibungen in der griechischen Vasenmalerei und die Organisation antiker Keramikproduktion (Munich, 2016): 42, FIG.7 (A AND PART OF SH)
    Giudice, F. and Panvini, R. (eds.), Il greco, il barbaro e la ceramica attica, Immaginario del diverso, processi di scambio e autorappresentazione degli indegni, Volume Quarto, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi 14-19 maggio 2001 (Rome, 2007): 51, FIG.2 (A)
    Guntner, G. et al., Mythen und Menschen, Griechische Vasenkunst aus einer deutschen Privatsammlung (Mainz, 1997): 104-107, 109, 111, NO.30
    Journal of Hellenic Studies: 119 (1999) PL.10A-B (A, B)
    Kressirer, K., Das Greisenalter in der griechischen Antike. Untersuchung der Vasenbilder und Schriftquellen der archaischen und klassischen Zeit (Hamburg, 2016): 853, NO.499 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VI, PL.81, LADON I1 (PART OF A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.22, OKEANOS 4 (A)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.577, STRYMON 1 (PART)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.664, THESEUS 280 (PART)
    Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Athenische Abteilung: 106 (1991) PLS.22-25
    Muth, S., Gewalt im Bild, Das Phänomen der medialen Gewalt im Athen des 6. und 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. (Berlin, 2008): 486, FIG.352 (PARTS OF SH)
    Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIGS.3.4-3.5 (A, B)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=3998
  • AVI Record Number: 3812
  • LIMC ID: 8143
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-7416F5BC34516-8
  • CAVI Collection: GERMANY, PRIVATE.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF POINTED NECK AMPHORA. COPENHAGEN PAINTER (ISLER-KERENYI). 480-470. EARLY (CAHN).
  • CAVI Subject: SHOULDER: CENTAUROMACHY, WITH THESEUS AND PEIRITHOOS. BODY: HERACLES IN THE GARDEN OF THE HESPERIDES: HERACLES SEATED ON A BLOCK; MEN SEATED; ATHENA; WOMEN WITH SPRIGS.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: SHOULDER: (Θ)εσ[ε]υς. Πε[--(?)]ιδος{1}. A WARRIOR: [--]δια{1}. BODY: SEATED MAN WITH STAFF TO LEFT OF THE FIRST TREE (FROM THE LEFT): Οκεανος. TO RIGHT OF THE FIRST TREE, A SIMILAR PERSON: Στρ[υ]μον. TWO PAIRS OF A MAN CONVERSING WITH A WOMAN; THE FIRST WOMAN: Αμαναος. THE SECOND MAN: Nι[λ]ος{2}. SEATED TO RIGHT OF A SECOND TREE: H[ερ]ακλεε(ς){3}. FACING HERACLES: Α[θ]εναια. A BEARDED MAN SEATED TO RIGHT OF A THIRD TREE, HIS NAME MISSING (IT SHOULD BE ATLAS); A WOMAN FACES HIM. YOUTH AND MAN CONVERSING; BETWEEN THEM: [--]ς. TO RIGHT OF THIS MAN AND TO LEFT OF A WOMAN APPROACHING OCEAN: Ἀδρό{4}. AT THE LEVEL OF THE LAST THREE HEADS: AN ETRUSCAN GR.{5}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} SO CAHN. THE FIRST IS SUPPOSED TO BE FOR PEIRITHOOS. PROBABLY: Πε[ρι](θ)ος. {2} GUY, WHO IDENTIFIED THIS FR. {3} POSSIBLY Hε[ρ]ακλεε(ς) [[H(ε)]]. {4} SHOULD BE Ἁδρό. {5} SEE CAHN, P. 109. A SIMILAR GR. IS FOUND ON A POINTED NECK AMPHORA BY THE COPENHAGEN PAINTER, ZüRICH, UNIVERSITY (LOAN): SEE ISLER-KERENYI (1977), 7 AND 46 N. 88.
  • CAVI Comments: CAHN'S HANDLING OF THE INSCRIPTIONS LEAVES MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED. TIVERIOS DISCUSSES THE RELATION TO PHERECYDES. MIXED ALPHABET?
  • CAVI Number: 3812
  • AVI Bibliography: BADB 30,676. — CAHN (1988), 107-109, FIGS. 1-9 (A, B, SIDE). — BOTHMER (1990), 171 (MENTION). — TIVERIOS (1991), 129-36, PLS. 22-25. — LIMC VI (1992), PL. 18, LADON II (PART OF A).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

Last updated 25/09/2025 04:08:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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