Inscriptions: Inscription: ATHENA EUE[M] RO EP Inscription: E MIKIO[N] ETHE[M]PO[ROS] MIKION Signature: E[POIESEN] MIKIO[N]
Attributed To: EUEMPOROS by BEAZLEY MIKION P by BEAZLEY
Decoration: Lid: CONTEST OF ATHENA AND POSEIDON IN CHITON AND BOOTS, TREE, SNAKE OR SEA MONSTER (?), ROCK AND FISH (SEA)
Last Recorded Collection: Athens, National Museum, Acropolis Collection: 2.594
Publication Record: Antike Kunst: 54 (2011) PL.7.2-3 Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1341.1 Boardman, J., Athenian Red Figure Vases, The Classical Period (London, 1989): FIG.331 Breitfeld-von Eickstedt, E.D., Attisch rotfigurige und schwarzgefirnisste Lekanides (Wiesbaden, 2017): PLS.6.2-5, 37.4 (INCL. PROFILE) Graef, B. and Langlotz, E., Die antiken Vasen von der Akropolis zu Athen 2 (Berlin, 1933): PL.45.594 Meyer, M., Athena, Göttin von Athen. Kult und Mythos auf der Akropolis bis in klassische Zeit, Wiener Forschungen zur Archäologie 16 (Vienna, 2017): 650, FIGS.396-399 (COLOUR, DRAWING) Pala, E., Acropoli di Atene, Un microcosmo della produzione e distribuzione della ceramica attica (Rome, 2012): 111, FIGS.49-51 Yatromanolakis, D. (ed.), An Archaeology of Representations, Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and contemporary Methodologies (Athens, 2009): 166-167, FIGS.3-4, DRAWING 1
CAVI Lemma: Frs. of RF lekanis. From Athens. Mikion Painter (Euemporos?). Mikion, potter.
Late fifth.
CAVI Subject: Contest of Athena and Poseidon. Fr. a: Athena; olive tree. Fr. c: male god;
hill and plant; man's calf.
CAVI Inscriptions: Fr. a: to Athena's right: Αθηνα[ια]. Below this, two-liner: Ευε[μ]πο[ρος] |
εγ̣[ραφσεν(?)]. Fr. c: to right of the god, above the plant, two-liner:
ε[ποιησεν] | Μικιω[ν].
CAVI Comments: Frs. a - e. I follow ARV[2], where the signatures are restored from the
similar lekanis Athens, Pnyx 124 (P 349) [ARV[2] 1341/2] which has: Μικι[ων]
εποιη[σεν]. Beazley apparently separates the name of Athena from the signatures,
while Langlotz, because of the proximity (and a near-stoich. arrangement of the
lines), had restored a dedication: Αθηνα[ιαι ανεθηκεν] | ευε[μ]πο[ρος· ο δεινα]
| επ̣[οιησεν]. He also considered Mikion the painter, but that is superseded by
the Pnyx fr. Note that a third group of frs., Acr. 1051 (ARV[2] 1341), which is
said by Beazley to be in a different style, has Μικιω[ν] and below it γραψας;
Beazley thinks this may have been followed by ανεθηκεν or the like. It does not
quite fit the restoration of Acr. 594.
CAVI Number: 1405
AVI Bibliography: Graef–Langlotz (1925–33), ii, no. 594, pl. 45 (dr.). — ARV[2] (1963), 1341/1.
— Boardman (1989), fig. 331.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
