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316, ATHENIAN, Zurich, University, Berne, Archäologisches Seminar, 6129

  • Vase Number: 316
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: CUP, LITTLE MASTER LIP
  • Provenance: ITALY, ETRURIA, CERVETERI
  • Date: -550 TO -500
  • Inscriptions: NEARCHOS
    Named: ATLAS
    Named: [HER]AKLES MELAPHERES
    Signature: NEARCHOS EPOIESENEU
  • Attributed To: NEARCHOS by SIGNATURE
  • Decoration: A,B: INSCRIPTION BETWEEN PALMETTES
    I: HERAKLES AND ATLAS (BOTH NAMED)
  • Last Recorded Collection: Zurich, University: 6129
  • Previous Collections:
    • Berne, Archäologisches Seminar
  • Publication Record: Heesen, P., Athenian Little-Master Cups (Amsterdam, 2011): 176, FIG.100, 247, FIG.127.3, PL.76A, C (A, I, AH)
    Höckman, U. and Krug, A. (eds.), Festschrift für Frank Brommer (Mainz, 1977): PLS.53, 54, 55.3, 4
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: III, PL.6, ATLAS 2 (I)
    Museum Helveticum: 36 (1979), 176, FIG.2 (I)
    Oakley, J.H. and Palagia, O. (eds.), Athenian Potters and Painters, Volume II (Oxford, 2010): 206, FIG.8 (I)
    Reusser, C. and Bürge, M. (eds.), Exekias hat mich gemalt und getöpfert, Ausstellung in der Archäologischen Sammlung der Universität Zürich, 9.11.2018-31.3.2019 (Zurich, 2018): 133-137, FIGS.75-82 (COLOUR)
    Schefold, K., Götter- und Heldensagen der Griechen in der Früh- und Hocharchaischen Kunst (Munich, 1993): 243, FIG.259 (I)
    Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), Epigraphy of Art II, Inscriptions and Representations on Athenian Vases (Athens, 2024): 151, 153-155, FIGS.1-3 (I, A)
  • AVI Web: HTTPS://WWW.AVI.UNIBAS.CH/DB/SEARCHFORM.HTML?ID=6067
  • AVI Record Number: 5837
  • LIMC ID: 21981
  • LIMC Web: HTTP://ARK.DASCH.SWISS/ARK:/72163/080E-74DB147C26F84-9
  • CAVI Collection: OSTERMUNDIGEN, BLATTER.
  • CAVI Lemma: BF LIP CUP. UNATTRIBUTED. NEARCHOS, POTTER. SECOND QUARTER SIXTH. 560-550.
  • CAVI Subject: INT.: HERACLES AND ATLAS. EXT.: PLAIN.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: INT.: Ατλας Hοδε. με̅λαφερε̅́ς. [Hερ]ακλες, RETR. A: Nε[α]ρχος μεποιεσεν ευ. B: N[εαρ]χος μ[εποι]εσεν ευ{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} TAKEN FROM ADD.[2].
  • CAVI Comments: LISTED AS BERN, PRIVATE BY JUCKER, AS BERN, UNIVERSITY IN ADD.[2] AND BEA. ARCH. 316 (ON LOAN?), BUT AS OSTERMUNDIGEN, PRIVATE UNDER NO. 11,673. IT IS CLEARLY OSTERMUNDIGEN, BLATTER. THE SIGNATURES BEAR LITTLE RESEMBLANCE TO NEARCHOS AS PAINTER; SEE ATTSCR. BEA. ARCH. 316 WRONGLY GIVES MELAPHERNES.
  • CAVI Number: 5837
  • AVI Bibliography: BADB 316 AND BADB 11,673. — H. JUCKER (1977), 191-99, PLS. 53-55. — GELZER (1979), 170 FF., FIG. 2 (REVERSED). — LIMC III (1986), PL. 6, ATLAS 2 (INT.). — ADD.[2] (1989), 400-401. — ATTSCR (1990), NO. 96. — SCHEFOLD (1993), 243, FIG. 259 (INT.).
  • 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/422859
  • Coordinates: 41.992798,12.092428
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 42.0047755,12.10281885

Last updated 28/02/2026 04:06:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2026 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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