41978, ATHENIAN, Berlin, Antikensammlung, Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg, 31332

[View larger image][Add to photograph album]

Vase Number: 41978
Fabric: ATHENIAN
Technique: BLACK-FIGURE
Shape Name: PLAQUE, FRAGMENT
Date: -575 to -525
Inscriptions: Inscription: HIERON EIMI
Decoration: Obverse: POTNIA THERON WITH SIREN, INSCRIPTION
Last Recorded Collection: Berlin, Antikensammlung: 31332
Previous Collections:
- Berlin, Schloss Charlottenburg: 31332
Publication Record: Buschor, E., Musen des Jenseits (1944): 30, FIG.19
Böhm, S., Sphingen und Sirenen im archaischen Griechenland, Symbole der Ambivalenz in Bildszenen und Tierfriesen (Regensburg, 2020): 191, FIG.96 (COLOUR)
Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: BERLIN, ANTIKENMUSEUM 7, 18, PL.(3001) 8.6 View Whole CVA Plates
Heilmeyer, W-D. et al., Antikenmuseum Berlin, Die ausgestellten Werke (Berlin, 1988): 66, NO.2
AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=2638
AVI Record Number: 2494
CAVI Collection: Berlin inv. 31,332.
CAVI Lemma: Fr. of small BF pinax. From Greece{1}. Unattributed. Mid-sixth (Mommsen).
CAVI Subject: Lower part of Potnia Theron holding a siren. A black line at left and right margins and at the bottom.
CAVI Inscriptions: Along the right margin in large clear letters, Dip.: hιερον ειμι.
CAVI Footnotes: {1} bought in Athens.
CAVI Comments: There remains a slight vacat before the inscription; hence, unless there was word separation, it should be complete; otherwise the name of a divinity might be lost. A bespoken piece for a dedication. No diagnostic letters, but the inscription could be Attic.
CAVI Number: 2494
AVI Bibliography: Kunze (1932), 132f. — Buschor (1944), 29f., fig. 19. — Prückner (1968), 156 n. 636. — H. Mommsen, CVA Berlin 7, Germany 61 (1991), pl. 8,6.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

Link to this record using the address https://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/E8D91E23-EE17-4AB3-B247-3F5697776E99

My photograph albums