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215563, ATHENIAN, Paris, Musée du Louvre, MNB2109

  • Vase Number: 215563
  • Fabric: ATHENIAN
  • Technique: RED-FIGURE
  • Shape Name: LEKYTHOS, SQUAT
  • Provenance: GREECE, ATHENS
  • Date: -450 to -400
  • Attributed To: AISON by BEAZLEY
  • Decoration: Body: ADONIS SEATED WITH LYRE, EROS WITH TRAY WITH POMEGRANATES, WOMEN, ONE SEATED, WITH WREATHS, APHRODITE WITH SCEPTRE
  • Last Recorded Collection: Paris, Musée du Louvre: MNB2109
  • Publication Record: Beazley, J.D., Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1963): 1174.7
    Bierl, A., Burkert, W., et al., Religion, Lehre und Praxis, Akten des Kolloquiums, Basel, 22. Oktober 2004 (Athens, 2009): 77, FIG.1 (BD)
    Burn, L., The Meidias Painter (Oxford, 1987): PL.25B-D
    Carpenter, T.H., with Mannack, T. and Mendonca, M., Beazley Addenda, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1989): 339
    Immerwahr, H., A Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions, Preliminary Edition (1998): 6705
    Lane Fox, R. Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer (New York, 2010): FIG.15 (BD)
    Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae: VII, PL.94, PAIDIA 1 (PART)
    Lezzi-Hafter, A., Der Eretria-Maler, Werke und Weggefährten (Mainz, 1988): 215, FIG.73B, NO.242 (PROFILE)
    Reitzammer, L, The Athenian Adonia in Context, The Adonis Festival as Cultural Practice. Wisconsin studies in classics (Madison and London, 2016): 125, FIG.3 (PART)
    Schierup, S. & Rasmussen, B.B. (eds.), Red-figure Pottery in its Ancient Setting, Gosta Enbom Monographs 2 (Copenhagen, 2012): 38, FIG.7 (PART)
    Shapiro, H.A., Personifications in Greek Art, The Representation of Abstract Concepts 600-400 BC (Zurich, 1993): 181, FIGS 137-138 (PARTS)
    Smith, A.C., Polis and Personification in Classical Athenian Art (Leiden, 2011): FIG.5.13 (PART OF BD)
  • AVI Web: https://www.avi.unibas.ch/DB/searchform.html?ID=6946
  • AVI Record Number: 6705
  • LIMC ID: 10544
  • LIMC Web: http://ark.dasch.swiss/ark:/72163/080e-7438edb30d17e-3
  • CAVI Collection: Paris, Louvre MNB 2109.
  • CAVI Lemma: RF squat lekythos. Aison. Last quarter fifth. Ca. 420 (Shapiro). 420-415 (Lezzi-Hafter).
  • CAVI Subject: Aphrodite and Adonis: at left, Paidia seated, with a necklace; another companion, standing; Aphrodite; Adonis, seated, with a lyre; Eros with a fruit tray.
  • CAVI Inscriptions: Above the seated woman: [Π]α̣ιδ̣ιά?. Above Aphrodite: [Αφ]ρο[δ]ιτη. Above Adonis: Αδων[--]{1}.
  • CAVI Footnotes: {1} Αδων[ις]; or Αδων[ιος](?).
  • CAVI Comments: The second figure from the left is apparently not inscribed. Probably both figures at left are personifications.
  • CAVI Number: 6705
  • AVI Bibliography: ARV[2] (1963), 1175/7. — Ginouvès (1964), pl. 26. — Rudolph (1971), pl. 20, (profile). — Cramers (1980), figs. 12,b (profile), 19-20, A 7. — Burn (1987), 42, pl. 25,b-d. — Lezzi-Hafter (1988), 234, 344/242 (not ill. in pls.; fig. 73,b is profile only). — Add.[2] (1989), 339. — Shapiro (1993), 257/119, 181, figs. 137-38 (details).
  • 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/579885
  • Coordinates: 37.976173,23.72519
  • Pleiades Coordinates: 37.9751764678,23.7263451721
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