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23625, ATHENIAN, Rome, Museo Torlonia

  • Vase Number: 23625
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: HYDRIA
  • Date: -475 to -425
  • Inscriptions: Named: HELENE, M[E]NELEOS, APOLLON, ANTIOPE
  • Decoration: Body: MENELAOS PURSUING HELEN (BOTH NAMED), APHRODITE (?) WITH SCEPTRE AND PHIALE, APOLLO (NAMED) WITH LAUREL STAFF, WOMEN, ONE SEATED ON ROCK WITH TORCH, ANTIOPE, SWORD, TRIPOD
  • Last Recorded Collection: Rome, Museo Torlonia
  • Publication Record: Girard, T., L'oblique dans le monde grec (Oxford, 2015): 96, FIG.62 (DRAWING OF BD)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: IV, PL.339, HELENE 270
    Mangold, M., Kassandra in Athen, die Eroberung Trojas auf attischen Vasenbildern (Berlin, 2000): 97, FIG.55 (DRAWING OF BD)
    Namata, Timitikos tomos gia ton kathigti Dimitrio Pantermali (Thessaloniki, 2011): 299, FIG.10 (DRAWING OF S)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=7540
  • AVI Record Number: 7282
  • LIMC ID: 12137
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-744f88077731f-6
  • CAVI Collection: Rome, Torlonia.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF hydria. From Vulci. Unattributed{1}. Third quarter fifth. 440-430 (Clement).
  • CAVI Subject: Menelaus pursuing Helen (his sword is falling), with Apollo, Aphrodite and four women.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Μ[ε]νελεος. hελενε. Απολλον. One of the four women: Αντιοπε{2}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} ARV[1]: perhaps Group of Polygnotos, but perhaps rather connected with the Painter of the Louvre Centauromachy; repeated in Hesp. {2} Hesp. says that two of the four women are named, but gives only one name.
  • CAVI Number: 7282
  • AVI Bibliography: Photo DAI(R) 23, 55 [[from ARV[1]]]. — Noel des Vergers (1862–4), pl. 39. — ARV[1] (1942), 702, bottom (not in ARV[2] or Para.). — Ghali-Kahil (1955), 89/68, pl. 57,2. — Clement (1958), 54 and n. 32 (mention).
  • CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)

Last updated 29/05/2022 19:15:00. Approved by Mannack, Thomas. Copyright © 2003-2025 Classical Art Research Centre, University of Oxford.

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